Yada Zhu

Dr. Yada Zhu is a Researcher at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, affiliated with the Future of Computing – Finance Research team. She leads initiatives in foundational AI/ML capabilities for financial decision-making and risk management.

• Research Focus: High-dimensional time series analysis, heterogeneous data modeling, graph learning, and statistical applications in finance, e-commerce, and smart energy.
• Grants: Principal Investigator for MIT-IBM AI Lab projects funded by Refinitiv and a major financial institution.
• Leadership: Technical lead in analytics projects contributing to commercialized IBM products.

Scientific Achievements:

• IBM Research Division Outstanding Technology Achievement Award
• High Valuable Innovation Award

Her publications span AI/ML, statistical modeling, and financial applications, with recent work on graph transformers, time-series unification, and zero-shot tool optimization for LLM agents. She serves on editorial boards for statistics journals and as Senior Program Committee member for AAAI.