Yu Tomita

Yu Tomita, PhD

Yu Tomita, PhD

Senior Vice President, Head of Investment Systems, Equity Strategies

Yu Tomita leads the team responsible for internal application development for investment management, productionizing research models, advancing firm-wide process automation, and implementing core libraries for the research teams of Research Affiliates.

Yu received dual BS degrees in computer science and chemistry from Stony Brook University and a PhD in computational science and engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. As part of her graduate studies and internship at Microsoft Research, she published seven peer-reviewed papers in fault-tolerant quantum computation.