Expertise

Health Informatics; Health Sciences Librarianship; Bibliometrics & Reviews; Research Impact Measurement & Evaluation; User Experience Design

Education

BA in Library & Information Science, Wuhan University, China
MS in Information Management, Wuhan University, China
MPS in Biomedical & Health Informatics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PhD in Library & Information Science, University of Pittsburgh

Biography

Dr. Fei Yu’s academic and research background spans multiple disciplines, including library and information science, biomedical and health informatics, nursing, and translational science. Her research focuses on designing, developing, and evaluating digital health technology to increase information access to the public, conducting bibliometric reviews, and advancing research informatics, such as AI-equipped applications for systematic reviews and citation analytics.

Before joining SILS as a tenure-track faculty member, Dr. Yu served as a health informatics librarian at the UNC health sciences library for seven years. In this role, she supported researchers and students across the UNC campus on various projects related to research impact assessment, citation data visualization, and digital health technology design and evaluation. She has particularly supported the research evaluation at the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Institute (NC TraCS).

Dr. Yu has been involved in several grant-funded research projects, including the Lancet Commission on Evidence-based Implementation in Global Health (funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) and the Development and Pilot Testing of the Interactive Prostate Cancer Information, Communication, and Support Program (iPICS). She is the site PI for the iPICS project funded by the US Department of Defense.