Yu Du

Yu Du is Interim Discipline Director and Associate Professor of Business Analytics at CU Denver Business School. She holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Rutgers University, M.S. in Quantitative Finance from Rutgers, and B.S. in Economics from Central South University.

Her research develops optimization algorithms for large-scale problems in machine learning, quantum computing, and combinatorial optimization. She has published extensively on QUBO models, quantum-inspired optimization, and statistical learning methods.

• Outstanding Research Award (2022)
• Faculty Research Productivity Award (2022)
• CIBER Faculty Grant (2021)
• Excellence Fellowship, Rutgers University (2012)