Yiyi is a first-year PhD student from Guangdong, China. She received her B.S. in Food Science and Technology from University of California, Davis in 2022 and recently completed her M.P.H. in Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. She is passionate about exploring the intersection of food and public health. She starts working on research focuses on risk assessment of Salmonella in ground turkey. 

Her hobbies include cooking, hiking, painting, and playing with Annie (her 3-year-old cat)