Sophie Yu

Sophie Yu
  • Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions

Contact Information

  • office Address:

    3730 Walnut Street
    550 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

Research Interests: Operations research, applied probability, high-dimensional statistics, network science, information theory

Links: CV, Personal Website

Overview

Sophie H. Yu is an assistant professor of Operations Information and Decisions at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. She was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in 2023, and an M.S. degree in statistical and economic modeling from Duke University in 2017, and a B.S. degree in Economics from Renmin University of China in 2015. Her research interests focus on high-dimensional statistics, algorithm design, and performance evaluation in large-scale networks and stochastic systems.
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