Ph.D. Management Science                                                              2002-2007

School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

B.A. Chinese Linguistic and Literature                                             1998-2002

School of Humanity and Social Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Professor of Public Administration                                                       present

School of Government, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Professor of Public Administration                                                     2010-2023

School of Public Administration, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Postdoctoral Research Fellow                                  2008-2010
Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University, WV, USA

Visiting Scholar                                              2008-2008
Department of Spatial Economics, Free University, Amsterdam, Netherland

Research Assistant Professor                                    2007-2008
School of Public Policy, George Mason University, VA, USA

Affiliations:

Visiting Professor, Great China Study Center, Tubingen University (2015.04-2015.05)

Rajawali Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation (2013.08-2014.02).

Yu, J. The Politics Behind China’s Quest for Nobel Prizes. 2014. Issues in Science and Technology, Vol.30(3): 59-66.

Yu, J. and Jackson R. 2011. Regional Innovation Clusters: A Critical Review. Growth and Change, Vol.42(2): 111-124.

Yu, J., Stough, R.R. and Nijkamp, P. 2009. Governing Technological Entrepreneurship in China and the West. Public Administration Review,  Vol. 69 (s1):  S95-S100.

Yu, J. and Stough, R.R. 2009. Linking Government Procurement to Long-term Government Performance: a Theoretical Instrument with a Prescriptive Suggestion for China. Comparative Technology Transfer and Society,  Vol.7 (2):  226-244.

Yu, J. and Nijkamp, P. 2009. Ownership, R&D and Productivity Change: Assessing the Catch-up in China’s High-tech Industries. Studies in Regional Science,  Vol.39 (1):  149-173.

Yu, J. and Stough, R.R. 2006. The Determinants of Entrepreneurship Development in China. International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development,  Vol. 3(1/2):  30-52.

Dr. Yu’s research interest ranges from the development of public administration theory to the assessment of the performance and impact of particular public policy in contemporary China. In recent years, his publications (in Chinese) concentrate on probing:

I. How China’s traditional “monarchical bureaucracy” has been transformed and also has been resisting the transformation into a “rationalized bureaucracy”, while the state and society are amid the modernization and globalization process. Examples such as the administrative agencies streamlining reform, which has been consecutively undertaken since 1982 and the “Doing Business” environment reform since 2014, are right now under investigation.

II. How China’s party-state system are engaging with advanced ICT, big data and AI technologies to promote the responsiveness of governance and improved the performance of its bureaucratic organizations. In particular, whether or not and to what extent technologies can be successfully embedded into China’s bureaucracies in transition. Right now, cases like the Smart Social Governance System in Jilin Province, the City Brain smart urban system in Nantong City JiangSu Province are under investigation.

III. How the nation-wide introduction and application of the World Bank’s “Doing Business Index” across China are reshaping government-business relationship in various regions and are rationalizing the bureaucratic systems in China. Cases like Jilin Province and Jiangsu Province are now under comparison and investigation.