Rose Yu is an Associate Professor at UC San Diego department of Computer Science and Engineering. She is a primary faculty with the AI Group and is affiliated with Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute.

Her research interests lie primarily in machine learning, especially for large-scale spatiotemporal data. She is particularly excited about AI for scientific discovery. She has won DARPA Young Faculty Award, ECASE Award, NSF CAREER Award, Hellman Fellowship, Faculty Awards from JP Morgan, Meta, Google, Amazon, and Adobe, several Best Paper Awards, Best Dissertation Award at USC. She was named as MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 in AI.