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👋Hi! I am Yang Ye. I am an Associate Research Scientist at Yale Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis (CIDMA), directed by Prof. Alison Galvani. My research focuses on developing data-driven, decision-support models for infectious disease dynamics and health policy, spanning three interconnected lines: (i) advancing modeling frameworks for infectious disease dynamics; (ii) availability, affordability, and equity of vaccines and medications; and (iii) policy modeling for population health. My previous work has been published in top-tier journals such as Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Communications, PNAS, and Proceedings of the Royal Society A, as well as featured in the press such as The Washington Post and The Guardian.

I earned my BS in Logistics Management from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2019 and my PhD in Data Science from City University of Hong Kong in 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Qingpeng Zhang. After my PhD, I joined CIDMA as a Postdoctoral Associate with Prof. Galvani.

Experience

• Associate Research Scientist, Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, 2025.08 - present
• Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, 2023.08 - 2025.07
• Visiting Scholar, UNC Project-China, 2021.07 - 2021.09

Scholarships and Awards

• Outstanding Academic Performance Award for Research Degree Students, CityU, 2021, 2022.
• Research Tuition Scholarship, CityU, 2021, 2022.
• China National Scholarship (highest undergraduate honor in China), HUST, 2016, 2017.

Media Coverage

• "Yale study: U.S. could save $184 billion by aligning drug prices with peer nations." Yale School of Public Health News, 2026.01.
• "Inteligencia artificial para prevenir y diagnosticar el dengue." The Conversation, 2025.08.
• "AI and epidemiology: Can combining the two predict pandemics?" UF Emerging Pathogens Institute, 2025.07.
• "Access to weight-loss injectables remains limited for most needy in the US, Yale study finds." Connecticut Public Radio, 2024.11.
• "Expanding Access to Weight-Loss Drugs Could Save Thousands of Lives A Year, Study Finds." Yale Health & Medicine News, 2024.10.
• "Répartition des vaccins dans le monde." CBC/Radio-Canada, Youtube version, 2022.10.
• "The benefits of vaccinating the world are clear. The catch is the price tag." The Washington Post, 2022.02.
• "World better protected against Covid if rich nations donated 50% of vaccines to low-income countries." The Guardian, 2022.02.
• "COVID-19: 46% vaccine redistribution best for high- and low-income countries alike." Nature Asia and others, 2022.02.
• "A big win-win: Vaccine sharing could protect against future COVID-19 waves." Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, 2022.01.
• "Enhanced vaccine donation drive can end COVID-19 pandemic." CityU News, 2022.02.
• "Mathematical model verifies a correct understanding of epidemic’s severity facilitates disease control." PhysOrg, 2021.01; CityU Research Stories, 2020.12.