Ning Yu, Ph.D. is chief research scientist at Leidos. Dr. Yu has made significant contributions in the field of technology.
One of Yu’s notable achievements is her leadership in a joint effort to improve the processing of veterans' benefit applications.
This initiative resulted in the development of an innovative triage model that combines transformer-based language models with domain knowledge.
The model achieved an accuracy level of over 95 percent and received the Leidos 2022 Information Technology Innovation Award.
In addition, Yu has led successful artificial intelligence/machine learning (AL/ML) pilots for the National Institutes of Health's Center for Scientific Review, focusing on review quality and detecting conflicts of interest.
Yu is also a prolific author with numerous peer-reviewed publications in information retrieval and natural language processing (NLP).
She played a key role in turning Leidos into an industry leader in online narrative analysis.
Yu's exceptional contributions led to her induction into the Leidos Tech Fellows Council in 2022. She will receive the Outstanding Technical Contribution Award at the 2023 WOC STEM Conference in October.
Nominees for this award demonstrate an extraordinary commitment to technological achievement as well as serving as a role model and inspiration to the advancement of women in science and technology.