Yu is an associate professor with a Ph.D. His research interests include sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, teaching Chinese as a foreign language, and international Chinese language education. He offers courses such as Quantitative Research in Second Language Teaching, Intermediate Chinese Reading and Writing, Advanced Chinese Reading and Writing, and Selected Readings of Professional Works. He has been involved in the youth projects of National Social Science Fund, the municipal projects of Shanghai Educational Science Research, the Chenguang Program of Shanghai Education Commission, the 12th Five-Year Plan Project of the National Language Commission, and major projects of National Social Science Fund.
He is currently in charge of the youth projects of National Social Science Fund, and key projects of International Chinese Language Education.
He has published more than 20 papers in academic journals including Chinese Teaching In The World, Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies, Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Research, Research on Chinese as a Second Language, Journal of Chinese Sociolinguistics, Comparative Education Review, and Urban Cultural Studies, many of which have been reprinted by Chinese Social Science Digest (1, June 2017, with 3,000 characters extracted and edited) and Language Philology, a replicated journals of Renmin University of China, (1, full text reprint), and his arguments have been excerpted as well (2).
He was nominated for the 6th Qian Xuesen Golden Prize for Urban Education (2016), and won the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award for International Students Education (International Students Education Branch of China Association of Higher Education, 2014), and third prize in the 9th Teaching Competition for Young Teachers of ECNU.
