Jessica Lingmin Yu (born 14 February 1966) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor.
She has directed documentary films, dramatic films, and television shows.
Yu won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1997).
Yu's film Last Call at the Oasis (2012) is based upon Alex Prud'homme's Ripple Effect.
Her more recent films have been: Misconception (2014), ForEveryone.Net (2016), a documentary film about the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and a Netflix comedy Maria Bamford: Old Baby (2017).