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Jing Yu

Assistant Professor
Robotics and Controls, Data Science, Power and Energy Systems
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Email: jing5@uw.edu
Research Web Page: https://www.jingyu.io/


Biography

Jing Yu is currently a UW ECE affiliate assistant professor and a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Michigan. In spring 2025, she will join the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as a Grainger College of Engineering Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow. Prior to that, she received the Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from Caltech in 2024. She is broadly interested in the interplay between control theory and machine learning, with a focus on online decision making and distributed algorithms for large-scale sustainable energy systems. She was named an Amazon AI4Science fellow in 2023. She was also the recipient of several awards, including the Best Paper Finalist award in the ACM e-Energy conference in 2022 and the Caltech Amori Doctoral Prize in 2024.