Yang was a student of Dalian Medical University where she was studying for a masters degree in Neurology. She came to the Sun Lab from 2021-2023 for a two year research fellowship where she studied the effects of ischemic stroke on the choroid plexus blood-CSF barrier.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fncel.2023.1279385/full