Yu Huang joined the State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University in 2007. He is a faculty member of the Institute of Computer Software and the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University. He was promoted to Ph.D. supervisor in 2015 and to professor in 2017. Yu Huang’s research interests include distributed system software, distributed algorithms and lightweight formal methods.  Yu Huang got his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Jun. 2007. He got his bachelor's degree in computer science from USTC in Jun. 2002. He studied in the Technology Center of Software Engineering, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (TCSE, ISCAS), as a co-educated Ph.D. student of both USTC and TCSE ISCAS from Sep. 2003 to Jul. 2007. From Sep. 2005 to Sep. 2006, he studied in the Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, as a visiting student.