Yuerong Hu is an assistant professor at the Department of Information and Library Science of the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, at Indiana University Bloomington. Prior to joining Luddy, Yuerong received her doctoral degree from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.

Yuerong's primary research areas are digital humanities/cultural analytics, digital libraries, and critical data studies. Specifically, she investigates critical and contextualized usage of digitized and born-digital cultural data (such as digitized books and online book reviews) with mixed methods, ranging from text mining with large language models to qualitative analysis of content. In addition, Yuerong conducts surveys and interviews to study education for library and information science professionals, and book reviewing on social platforms.

Yuerong' work has been published in journals such as Big Data & Society, International Journal on Digital Libraries, College and Research Libraries, Digital Scholarship in Humanities, and Information Development, as well as conference proceedings including Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Computational Humanities Research (CHR), The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Annual Conference, and iConference.