in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts (as a Provost Fellow).

Yu appears in Evan Jackson Leong's documentary on Jeremy Lin, Linsanity, which screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

He is also an Executive Producer of the action/comedy web series from the National Film Society duo of Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco entitled Awesome Asian Bad Guys.

In 2016, Yu received the Voice Award from the V3 Digital Media Conference, presented by the Asian American Journalists Association.

[5] As of February 17, 2015, Yu is involved in a trademark and copyright infringement dispute with Lela Lee of Angry Little Asian Girl.