* New imaging systems
* The microwave image processing and interpretation
* Information fusion
* Target recognition

Sep, 1988 – Jul, 1993 National University of Defense Technology
PhD, communication and information system
Sep, 1985 – Jul, 1988 National University of Defense Technology
Master, communication and electronic system
Sep, 1981 – Jul, 1985 National University of Defense Technology
Bachelor, wireless measurement and control

Sep, 2008 – Present:
Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor,
Dean of Academy of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering,
School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Dec, 1996 – Aug, 2008:
Professor and Deputy Head of the College of Electronic Science and Engineering,
Director of the National Key Laboratory of Automatic Target Recognition,
National University of Defense Technology.

For the past five years, Prof. Yu organized and participated in more than 30 program, such as the National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program), National Defense Model Projects, National Defense Advance Research and so on. He Published more than 130 academic articles (including cooperation), obtained a lot of key technologies and systems development achievements in radar target recognition, data fusion area. He also have a greater impact in the area of radar detection, military electronic information integrated system technology, satellite remote sensing applications.

*National Science and Technology Progress Award Second Price
(1993, the 5th contributor)
*COSTIND Science and Technology Progress Award First Price
(1996, the 2nd contributor)
*COSTIND Science and Technology Progress Award First Price
(1996, the 2nd contributor)
*National Science and Technology Progress Award Second Price
(1999, the 3rd contributor)
*Outstanding Youth “Qiushi Award”, 2003
*Military Science and Technology Progress Award Second Price
(2007, the 1st contributor)
*Military Science and Technology Progress Award First Price
(2009, the 1st contributor)
*National Science and Technology Progress Award Second Price
(2011, the 1st contributor)
*The 6th China Youth Science and Technology Award, 1998

"Centennial Review of IT courses"
"3S Technology - Remote Sensing, Navigation and Geographic Information Systems"

[1] Xu, L., Wang, M., Ying, R., Liu, P., Yu, W., "Low Power Tracking of GNSS Signal by IMU Aided Intermittent Tracking Algorithm," Proceedings of the 26th International Technical Meeting of The Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2013), Nashville, TN, September 2013, pp. 1065-1070.
[2] Xu, L., Chen, K., Ying, R., Liu, P., Yu, W., "Parallel Acquisition of GNSS Signal Based on Combined Code," Proceedings of the 26th International Technical Meeting of The Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2013), Nashville, TN, September 2013, pp. 3607-3614.
[3] J. Qian, R. Ying, K. Chen, P. Liu, W. Yu. Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes and Its Application for Compass. Proceeding of ION GNSS 2012. 2012. 3606-3612.
[4] Hongbin Zhou, Rendong Ying, Peilin Liu. A Smart Format Floating-point Engine for GNSS Receiver. Proceeding of ION GNSS 2012. 2012. 2301 - 2306.
[5] B. Liu, H. Wang, Q. Yu, X. Liu, and W. Yu. A novel ship detection approach in polarimetric SAR images based on a foreground/background separation framework. Chinese Journal of Electronics, in press.
[6] B. Liu, H. Hu, H. Wang, K. Wang, X. Liu, and W. Yu. Superpixel-based classification with an adaptive number of classes for polarimetric SAR images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, in press.
[7] B. Liu, H. Wang, K. Wang, X. Liu, and W. Yu. A foreground/background separation framework for interpreting polarimetric SAR images. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 8(2):288-292, March 2011.
[8] Lei Zhuang, Siyuan He, Xingbin Ye, Weidong Hu, Wenxian Yu, and Guoqiang Zhu. The BCGS-FFT Method Combined With an Improved Discrete Complex Image Method for EM Scattering From Electrically Large Objects in Multilayered Media; IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens.; vol. 48, no.3, pp. 1180–1185, Mar. 2010.
[9] Yutao Zhu, Yi Su, and Wenxian Yu. An ISAR Imaging Method Based on MIMO Technique; IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens.; vol. 48, no. 8, pp. 3290–3299, Aug. 2010.
[10] Zenghui Zhang, Wenchong Xie, Weidong Hu, and Wenxian Yu. Local Degrees of Freedom of Airborne Array Radar Clutter for STAP; IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett.; vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 97–101, Jan. 2009.
Yonghui Wu, Kefeng Ji, Wenxian Yu and Yi Su. Region-Based Classification of Polarimetric SAR Images using Wishart MRF; IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters; Vol.5 No.4,pp. 668-672, 2008.
[11] Gongjian Wen, Jinjian Lv, Wenxian Yu. A High-Performance Feature-Matching Method for Image Registration by Combining Spatial and Similarity Information; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing; Vol.46 No.4, pp.1266-1277, 2008.

Books
Phased Array Radar Resource Management Theory and Methods, National Defence Industry Press, May ,2010.