Shang Yu is a Research Associate and UKRI Guarantee Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London. His research focuses on programmable, scalable and distributed photonic quantum computing, quantum optical neural networks, and error-corrected architectures. Shang has delivered several first-of-their-kind experiments, including the initial verification of the non-additivity of quantum-channel capacity, a parity-time-symmetry-enhanced quantum sensor, and a universal, temporally encoded photonic quantum computer applied to drug-discovery problems. Before joining Imperial, he earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2020, where he pioneered quantum-simulation experiments with linear optics. Shang has authored or co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed papers.