Yu Yu

Director of Data Science

Blackrock

Yu Yu is a director of data science in BlackRock, Aladdin Client Sales and Solutions group. Yu Yu worked at Bank of New York Mellon, Point72 and AIG, where she leveraged cutting-edge statistical modeling and ML techniques to solve a wide range of investment and business problems. Yu was a tenure-track professor of marketing at Georgia State University for nearly five years prior to her industry career.

Yu Yu grew up in China and received her bachelor’s degree in finance from NanKai University. She went on to earn a Master’s in Economics from Indiana University-Bloomington and a PhD in Quantitative Marketing from Cornell University Johnson School of Management.