Judy Yu, PhD

Software Engineer/Data Architect

Judy Yu has worked in both high tech and biomedical engineering industries for the past 12 years. At Accuri Cytometers (now part of Becton-Dickinson Company), she was the R&D lead engineer in a clinical project commercializing a portable blood analyzer biomedical instrument for low-resource regions. She has also served as the senior director of technology for a medical and IT-focused job-training/career upskilling company, scaling the platform to accommodate 10x the previous consumer base. Previously, as part of her doctoral research work, she was a member of a team designing a NASA spaceflight mass spectrometry payload instrument to detect organic chemical compounds on Mars. More recently, she is a future technology strategist at the Walt Disney Company.

Judy holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Space and Planetary Physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Physics & Astronomy and Computer Engineering B.S. degrees from the University of Kansas.