Yu Ma

Yu Ma is an assistant professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin Madison. She obtained her PhD from MIT Operations Research Center, where she is advised by Professor Dimitris Bertsimas. Her research focuses on the use of AI methodologies to solve significant problems in healthcare operational efficiency and clinical decision-making. Driven by a commitment to creating real-world impact, she has collaborated with many healthcare institutions and implemented her works in practice. In tackling these challenges, her works combine tools from machine learning, optimization, and analytics. She is recognized by the MIT School of Engineering as a Takeda Fellow. In the summer of 2023, she was an applied scientist in eBay’s Recommendation team. Prior to PhD, she obtained a B.A. degree from UC Berkeley in Applied Mathematics.