With more than 25 years of experience spanning clinical healthcare, biomedical research, advanced analytics, engineering, enterprise IT, and management consulting, Dr. Yu has been providing healthcare and life science thought leadership in support of large-scale Big Data compute and storage initiatives. Since joining IBM in 2011, Dr. Yu has been partnering with IBM technical experts to build on-premise and cloud-based data management and analytics systems that accelerate and reduce the cost of clinical and basic science research. Dr. Yu’s hands-on experience in biomedical research is broad—spanning laboratory genomic sequencing, cellular and organ physiology, and computational biology. She holds an MD and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics & Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.