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Amy Yu
PhD Student, MIT Media Lab

Amy is currently a first year PhD student in the Macro Connections group at MIT Media Lab. Amy Yu’s research interests focus on utilizing digital data and network science to understand social phenomena and inform decisions that affect innovation, business, and public policy. Before MIT, Amy was a research associate at Harvard Business School and a consultant at Synthosys, working with the National Science Foundation on the STAR METRICS initiative. Amy graduated from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Economics with concentrations in Finance and Operations and Information Management. In her spare time, she enjoys running, cooking, hiking, and discovering new local restaurants.