College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Yu has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Arizona State University with a concentration on measurement, statistics, and methodological studies, as well as a Ph.D. in Philosophy, also from ASU, with a specialization in history and philosophy of science. His research interests include, but are not limited to, alternate and emerging research methods (e.g. exploratory data analysis, data visualization, resampling, and data mining), instructional psychology and technology (e.g. multimedia learning), philosophical aspects of research methodologies (e.g. causal inferences), cross-cultural comparison (e.g. PISA, TIMSS), and the relationships between faith and science (e.g. responses to New Atheism).