Sophie Yu is a Graduate Student in the field of Decision Sciences in the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, under Jiaming Xu. She received her MS in statistical and economical modeling from Duke University in 2017, and her BS was in Economics (Public Finance) which she obtained from Renmin University of China in 2015.

Her research interests include statistical inference, network science, machine learning, bayesian analysis, decision sciences and data privacy.