Professor Yu Yuguo is a Professor and PhD Supervisor at Fudan University. He is a Shanghai High-Level Talent Eastern Scholar (2013) and a recipient of the Tracking Program (2017).

Email:yuyuguo@fudan.edu.cn

Research Interests: Brain-Inspired Intelligence and Computational Neuroscience

Professor Yu earned his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from Nanjing University in 2001, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Computational Neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States in 2004. He was a research scientist at Yale University School of Medicine in 2010. He has also been recognized as a Shanghai High-Level Talent Eastern Scholar in 2013 and a Tracking Program expert in 2017.

Professor Yu serves as a director of the Shanghai Biophysical Society, a member of the Chinese Society for Computational Neuroscience, and a member of the Automation Control and Biological Engineering Association. He is also the Deputy Editor of Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience and an editorial board member of Cognitive Neurodynamics.

His research focuses on the dynamical properties and biophysical mechanisms of brain neural signals, neural information processing, neural computation, computational models of neurons and neural networks, and bio-inspired intelligence. In recent years, he has developed a 3D mathematical model for the energy connectivity map of the mammalian and human brain, revealing the universal signal transmission and energy consumption patterns dependent on basic metabolism in the brain cortex. His research spans multiple scales, from ion channels to neurons, neural networks, and neural circuits, investigating how higher animals achieve low-power neural network connections and efficient energy-saving information processing and neural computation mechanisms.

Professor Yu has published over 60 SCI papers in prestigious journals such as Nature, PNAS, Neuron, Physical Review Letters, J Neurosci, PLoS Comp Biol, and J Cereb Blood Flow & Metabolism. He has led or participated in more than 10 national research projects.