• I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware.
• My current research interest is in integrating knowledge-driven and data-driven computational models to probe the mechanisms of diseases and effectiveness of therapeutics by leveraging data acquired from bench to bedside and existing biological/medical knowledge, for example, diabetes in endocrinology and infectious diseases in immunology.
• Before joining UD, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Prof. Daniel Lingwood at Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard from 2022 to 2024. In the meantime, I also worked with Prof. Douglas A Lauffenburger at MIT. I was co-advised by Prof. Lauffenburger and Prof. Galit Alter (now the Vice President of Immunology Research at Moderna) before October 2022.

• Before joining the Ragon Institute, I completed my Ph.D. study at Brown University, advised by Prof. George Em Karniadakis in 2021. I received my B.Eng. degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2015.

• CV; Fun: A word cloud summarizing my PhD research

Recent news

• (Aug. 16, 2024) Yixiang’s first day at UD started. Go Blue Hens!
• (Jul. 15-24, 2024) Yixiang attended SISMID at Emory University with support from the Halloran Scholarship, Atlanta, GA.
• (Jun. 24, 2024) Yixiang presented a poster at Harvard Immunology Retreat, North Falmouth, MA.
• (May 14, 2024) Yixiang gave an invited talk at Data Sciences for Mesoscale and Macroscale Materials Models hosted by the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI), Chicago, IL.
• (Mar. 22, 2024) Yixiang presented a poster at MIT Microbiome Symposium, Cambridge, MA.
• (Feb. 26- Mar. 1, 2024) Yixiang attended NCBI ML/AI Codeathon hosted by NCBI, NIH.
• (Oct. 18-21, 2023) Yixiang attended Duke Engineering Future Faculty of Innovation and Excellence hosted by Duke University, Durham, NC.
• (Oct. 11-14, 2023) Yixiang presented her posters at BMES 2023, Seattle, WA.
• (Oct. 1, 2023) Yixiang volunteered at the Ragon Institute booth for the Cambridge Science Carnival, Cambridge, MA.
• (Sept. 25-28, 2023) Yixiang led a team in Clinical and Single-Cell Transcriptomics for Pneumonia Codeathon hosted by Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
• (Jun. 15, 2023) Yixiang presented a poster on a project based on a 4-year flu clinical trial at Harvard Immunology Retreat, North Falmouth, MA.
• (Dec. 7, 2022) Yixiang presented a poster at 4th Annual Immune Modulation and Engineering Symposium, Drexel University.
• (Oct. 12-15, 2022) Yixiang served as the co-chair for the following two sessions at BMES 2022, San Antonio, TX.
  • Biosensors, Implantable Sensors and Devices II
  • Other Mechanics
• (Aug. 3, 2022) Yixiang gave an invited virtual talk at Complex Fluids and Soft Matter (CFSM) Seminar Series, Clemson University.
• (Nov. 24, 2021) Yixiang gave an invited virtual talk at Institue of Fluid Engineering hosted by Dr. Xuejin Li, Zhejiang University.
• (Sep. 22, 2021) Yixiang successfully defended her thesis! Many thanks to Dr. George Karnidakis and the thesis committee, Dr. Christos Mantzoros, Dr. Roberto Zenit and Dr. Vikas Srivastava, as well as current and past members of the CRUNCH group.