Yu Tomita is Partner, Head of Investment Systems, Equity Strategies at Research Affiliates. Yu joined Research Affiliates in 2014 and oversees the Investment Systems team, which is responsible for internal investment application development, productionizing research models, advancing firm-wide process automation, and implementing core libraries.

Prior to joining Research Affiliates, Yu conducted doctoral research in quantum computation and held an internship at Microsoft Research.

Yu received her Bachelor of Science degrees in computer science and chemistry from Stony Brook University and a PhD in computational science and engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.