Dr. Yu is a senior engineering manager at EMC, where he works at a combo role of data scientist, solution architect and technical leader on customer specific Cloud and Big Data solution innovation for verticals like social intelligence, smart-grid, video surveillance and healthcare, as well as Cloud infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, SDDC) analytics and software-defined storage intelligence. He also works on collaborative relationships between EMC and the academic community across APJ region. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from National University of Singapore.