Meet Rose Yu, one of CSE's new faculty members

CSE Assistant Professor Rose Yu, who recently arrived from Northeastern University in Boston, is developing physics-guided machine learning techniques to model spatiotemporal data. She investigates traffic flows, human mobility and fluid dynamics, but her passion for computer science began more humbly. "I think it was because of my love for computer video games," said Yu. "I played a lot of World of Warcraft in high school." That pastime sparked an early interest in computers and later in machine learning. Yu earned her PhD at USC, where she was honored for best dissertation.