Luyu Du

Graduate Student Fellow,

Center for Organization Research and Design (CORD)

[email protected]

Mail code: 3520

Campus: Phoenix
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Student Information

Graduate Student
Public Administration and Policy
Watts Col of Pub Ser & Com Sol

Long Bio

Luyu Du is a Ph.D. Candidate in Public Administration and Policy at ASU School of Public Affairs and Graduate Student Fellow at the Center for Organization Research and Design (CORD). Her research interest broadly lies in the intersection of public management and science and technology policy, focusing on co-production within the context of public value institutions. Working as a Graduate Research Assistant at CORD, she has worked on several NSF-funded large-scale evaluation projects related to cross-sectoral collaboration and regional innovation ecosystems.

Luyu received her B.S. degree in Public Service & Public Policy with a Business minor from ASU School of Public Affairs (2021). Before moving back to Arizona, Luyu earned her M.S. degree in Public Policy from NYU Wagner School of Public Service (2022).

Education

M.S. Public Policy, New York University

B.S. Public Service & Public Policy (Business Minor), Arizona State University

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=U_0XLM0AAAAJ&hl=en

Research Interests

Co-production, organizational theory and behavior, public management, science and technology policy, higher education policy

Publications

Du, L., & Bozeman, B. (2025). Trump’s destruction of U.S. universities: Domestic and international implications. Global Public Policy and Governance. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43508-025-00136-6
Du, L., Tirado, M. M., & Melkers, J. (2025). Work–Family Conflict in Academic Science: Differential Experiences of Foreign-Born and U.S.-Born Faculty. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000640
Yu, S., & Du, L. (2025). Balancing regulations, paperwork, and access: How administrative capacity and networks shape scientific material exchange? Science and Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scaf040
Howell, A., Wang, J., Du, L., Melkers, J., & Shah, V. (2026). Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review (arXiv:2509.15122). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.15122. Accepted for publication in Scientific Reports.

Courses

2027 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
PAF 302	Public Service Research Method

2025 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
PAF 410	Building Leadership Skills

Presentations

Graduate Teaching Assistant. PAF 508 Organization Behavior, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University (Summer 2023).

Teaching Assistant. Public Economics, Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, New York University (Spring 2022).

Honors / Awards

Arizona State University:

University Graduate Fellowship (2022-2026), Outstanding Instruction Award (2026), Outstanding Undergraduate Award (2021), Summa Cum Laude (2021), Dean’s List (2019-2021), Dean’s Undergraduate Research Scholar (2019-2020)

New York University:

MS in Public Policy Scholarship (2021-2022)