Zhongyuan (Annie) Yu

Dr. Zhongyuan Yu is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Yu brings more than 15 years of extensive software prototype developing expertise, and her research crosses multiple disciplines including applied statistics, optimization, data visualization, simulation, natural language processing, network analysis, and socio-economics. To date, Zhongyuan’s work has led her to build smart and interactive data-driven decision support systems. Her current research centers on understanding and managing complex systems in healthcare settings and defense acquisitions.

2021-now Teaching Associate professor
2022-2024 Software Engineering Program Director
2015-2021 Research Assistant Professor

The Future of Managing Mega-Projects (2023- 2024). Department of Defense (DoD) DASD(SE). Role: Co-Principal Investigator.
Innovation Capstone (2023- 2024). Department of Defense (DoD) DASD(SE). Role: Co-Principal Investigator.
Printing the Future: Transforming Systems Research with Flexible Hybrid Electronics. (2024 - 2025). SSE Dean’s Research Incentive Award. Role: Co-Principal Investigator.
Transforming Systems Engineering through Model-Centric Engineering (2020 - 2021). Department of Defense (DoD) DASD(SE). Role: Co-Investigator.
Patients Perceptions of Electronic Health Record Use during Initial Oncology Outpatient Clinic Visits (2020 - 2021). National Institutes of Health (NIH). Role: Co-Principal Investigator.
Meshing Capability and Threat-based Science & Technology Resource Allocation. (2018 - 2020). Department of Defense (DoD) DASD(SE). Role: Co-Investigator.
Analyzing and Assessing Contracts for Embedded Risk (2019 - 2020). Department of Defense (DoD) DASD(SE). Role: Co-Investigator.
Resource Allocation Enterprise System-of-Systems Model for Digital-thread Enabled Acquisition. (2019). Department of Defense (DoD) DASD(SE). Role: Co-Investigator.
Helix: Developing an Understanding of Organizational Systems Engineering Effectiveness. (2019). Department of Defense (DoD) DASD(SE). Role: Co-Investigator.
The Use of Policy Simulation in Making Decisions to Implement the Transitional Care Model. (2015). Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Role: Co-Investigator.

Elkefi, S., Asan, O., Yu, Z., Yen, T., & Rowley, S. (2024). Patient-centered communication’s association with trust, satisfaction, and perception of electronic health records use among newly diagnosed patients with cancer. Frontiers in Communication, 9, 1391981.

Gu, Z., Yang, S., Yu, Z., & Liu, F. (2024). Detection of High-Frequency Oscillations from Intracranial EEG Data with Switching State Space Model. bioRxiv, 2024-05.

Elkourdi, F., Wei, C., Xiao, L., Yu, Z., Asan, O. (2024). Exploring Current Practices and Challenges of HIPAA Compliance in Software Engineering: Scoping Review. IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering.

Hoffenson, S., Philippe, C., Chen, Z., Barrientos, C., Yu, Z., Chell, B., & Blackburn, M. (2023). Graphical features of interactive dashboards have little influence on engineering students performing a design task. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 180, 103121.

Yan, X., Yang, H., Yu, Z., Zhang, S., & Zheng, X. (2023). Portfolio Optimization: A Return-on-Equity Network Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.

Dunbar, D., Hagedorn, T., Blackburn, M., Dzielski, J., Hespelt, S., Kruse, B., ... & Yu, Z. (2023). Driving digital engineering integration and interoperability through semantic integration of models with ontologies. Systems Engineering, 26(4), 365-378.

Yan, X., Yang, H., Yu, Z., & Zhang, S. (2021). A Network View of Portfolio Optimization Using Fundamental Information. Frontiers in Physics, 9, 721007.

Asan, O., Crotty, B., & Yu, Z. (2021). How clinician-patient communication affect trust in health information sources: longitudinal analysis from a national cross-sectional survey. PLOS ONE, vol. 16, no. 2, Feb. 2021, p. e0247583. PLoS Journals, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0247583.

Elkefi, S., Yu, Z., & Asan, O. (2021). Why patients avoid online medical record use: Findings from the Health Information National Trends Survey 2019. Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 23, no. 2, Feb. 2021. PubMed Central, doi:10.2196/24767.

Yu, Z., Tao, HYS., Xiao, Y., Burke P., & Hutchison, N. (Aug. 2020). Multi-Level Systems Engi- neering Analyzer Dashboard: A Semi-Automated Content Analysis for Interview Data. The 14th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference (SYSCON 2020), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Rouse, W.B, Naylor, M., Yu, Z., Pennock, M. J., Hirschman, K., Pauly, M.V., & K.B., Pepe (2019). Policy Flight Simulators: Accelerating Decisions to Adopt Evidence-Based Health Interventions. Journal of Healthcare Management 64 (4), 231-241.

Rouse, W. B., and Pennock, M. J., Yu, Z., & Pepe, K. (2018). A Conceptual Platform for Understanding and Managing Complex Service Enterprises: Case Studies in the Transformation of Healthcare Delivery in Smedlund, A., Lindblom, A., & Mitronen, L. (Ed.), Collaborative Value Co-creation in the Platform Economy. Springer.

PRV-101 First Year Experience Course
SSW-500 Software Development Tools and Techniques
SSW-555 Agile Methods for Software Development
SSW-695 Software Engineering Capstone Studio
SSW 703 Practicum in Software Engineering
EM-224 Informatics & Software Development
EM-600 Engineering Economics and Cost Analysis
EM-622 Data Analysis and Visualization
EM-624 Informatics for Engineering Management