Dr. Yu (Jason) Gu is currently an assistant professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design. He also holds a joint appointment as a research scientist at Advanced Digital Sciences Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2010. He is the author and co-author of over 50 peer-reviewed papers in premier journals and conferences in his fields. His publications have been selected as graduate-level course and seminar materials by over 20 major research universities in the United States and other countries.
 
Dr Gu has received several research awards for his research works, including a IBM Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Award, a best paper award at MSN'11, a best paper candidate at ACM SenSys’10,  a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from 2008 to 2009, an Excellence in Research Award in 2007, a General Dynamics Research Fellowship in 2006 and an Academic Excellence Fellowship Award in 2006. His research includes Networked Embedded Systems, Wireless Sensor Networks, Cyber-Physical Systems, Wireless Networking, Real-time and Embedded Systems, Distributed Systems, Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network and Stream Computing Systems. Dr. Gu is a member of ACM and IEEE.

We are conducting research in the area of cyber-physical systems, wireless sensor networks, mobile/pervasive computing systems, RFID systems and Intelligent Transportation Systems.

• Jung Hyun (Peter) Jun, Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD from University of Cincinnati, USA, 2011
• Liang He, Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD from Nankai University (joint PhD student at the University of Victoria, Canada 2009-2011), China, 2011
• Peng Cheng, Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD from Zhejiang University, China, 2009. Assistant Professor at Zhejiang University, China, 2012
• Long Cheng, Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (joint PhD student at the University of Texas, Arlington) , China, 2012
• Linghe Kong, Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2012 (Awardee of IBM PhD Fellowship and Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship)
  
• Yuanchao Shu, Visiting Graduate Student, Zhejiang University
• Lingkun Fu, Visiting Graduate Student, Zhejiang University
• Banghui Lu, Visiting Graduate Student, Beihang University
• Yuelong Tian, Visiting Graduate Student, Zhejiang University
  

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA 2010
• B.E. in Computer Science, Wuhan University of Technology, China 2005
  

• NSF/IEEE-TCPP Curriculum Initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing Early Adopter Award, 2012
  
• Best Demo Award -Runner Up, IPSN, 2012
  
• IBM Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Award, 2012
• Best Paper Award, The 7th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN'11), 2011
• Best Paper Award Candidate, SenSys'10, 2010 (3 out of 164 submissions)
• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 2008
• Nominee for IBM PhD Fellowship, Dept. of Computer Sci. & Eng., University of Minnesota, 2007
• Excellence in Research Award Fellowship, Dept. of Computer Sci. & Eng., University of Minnesota, 2007
• General Dynamics Research Fellowship Award, Advanced Information Systems, General Dynamics Corporation, 2006
• Academic Excellence Fellowship Award, Dept. of Computer Sci. & Eng., University of Minnesota, 2006
• Nominee for Graduate School Fellowship, Dept. of Computer Sci. & Eng., University of Minnesota, 2005
• Travel Grant Award for: ICDCS'10, SenSys'09, ICNP'09, MobiCom'09, ICDCS'07, SenSys'06, MobiCom'06