Prof. Dr. YU Hui is a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor appointed by the Chinese Ministry of Education. He serves as Chair of the Steering Committee of the East Asian Association of the International Musicological Society (IMSEA), President of the Council for Asian Musicology, and a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is also a member of the Inaugural National Committee for Aesthetic Education in Higher Education (Ministry of Education, China) and a Distinguished Professor at Nanjing Normal University.

Professor Yu is a Chinese scholar specializing in ethnomusicology, traditional Chinese music history and practice, world music, and digital musicology, with a particular emphasis on lüxue (traditional Chinese music theory) and its global relevance. His research centers on the intersection of traditional Chinese musical heritage and contemporary digital scholarship. He currently serves as co-editor-in-chief of the international English-language journal Asian Musicology and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora (Oxford University Press), as well as editor of the academic series Music and Society in Asia (Peter Lang). He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (a Nature journal) and a regional contributor to The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments in Greater China.

Professor Yu began his academic career at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he both studied and later taught. He subsequently pursued his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University (Connecticut, USA) under the supervision of Mark Slobin, earning his doctoral degree in 2000. Over the course of his career, he has served as Dean of the School of Arts at Shenyang Normal University, Ningbo University, and Yunnan University.

In recent years, Professor Yu has published more than 60 scholarly articles in Chinese, English, and Russian, including a Computer Music Journal (MIT Press) cover article and numerous papers indexed in SSCI, A&HCI, CSSCI, and Chinese Core journals. He has authored or co-authored over twenty books in Chinese, English, and Russian, published by international academic presses such as Oxford University Press, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Moscow State University Press, Peter Lang, and Zhejiang University Press.

Professor Yu has delivered keynote lectures at major international conferences in Malaysia, Ireland, Korea, and other countries and has served as a jury member for international music competitions in Italy, Russia, and other countries.