Ali Yuen is a data scientist with over ten years of experience consulting on matters involving labor and employment discrimination claims, antitrust, and merger reviews. Ms. Yuen specializes in scalable data pipelines, statistical modeling, and applied econometrics, helping clients navigate high-stakes disputes through rigorous empirical analysis. She provides analysis in all phases of commercial litigation, internal investigations, and regulatory matters.
Ms. Yuen’s industry expertise includes agriculture, healthcare, higher education, life sciences, media, technology, and transportation.
Her representative work includes:
- Providing economic and statistical support from early discovery through trial in Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College et al.
- Processing large and complex data to support analyses of market definition, unilateral effects, and coordinated effects in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) successful challenge of the JetBlue/Spirit merger
- Supporting multiple Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and DOJ investigations in the healthcare industry, including Aveanna/Maxim, Methodist Le Bonheur/Tenet, and Aetna/Humana
Data Science Center
As a leader in the Data Science Center, Ms. Yuen helps to shape and deliver Cornerstone Research’s technical learning and development initiatives. She designs and delivers workshops, authors internal documentation, serves as a mentor, and develops training materials on data analysis, data visualization, geospatial methods, and the application of large language models (LLMs), among other topics. Ms. Yuen’s work promotes technical fluency and a culture of continuous learning within the firm.
Community engagement
Ms. Yuen supports Chicago’s local food systems as a collective gardener at El Paseo Community Garden. She previously served as president of the Advocates of Urban Agriculture Associate Board and volunteered in the propagation greenhouses at Garfield Park Conservatory.