Xiyu Yang

Xiyu (she/her) is a PhD student in Network Science. She graduated from Harvard Data Science Master’s program in 2023 and started working with Prof. Mauricio Santillana as a research assistant. Her research project was about transforming disease images into low-dimensional vector embeddings. During her PhD, she would like to cultivate her research interests in graph machine learning and computer vision with an application in medicine. Outside work, she loves practicing yoga and pilates, bouldering, reading books, and spending time with her cats.