i’m currently a 2nd-year master’s candidate in philosophy at the university of Houston (2025-2027).

before that, in 2024-2025, i worked at University of michigan museum of art and michigan institute for data & ai in society.

i hold a bachelor of arts degree high honors in classics and in philosophy from university of michigan (2019-2023), after transferring from NortheasterN UNIVERSITY (2018-2019). During the pandemic (2020-2021), i took a gap year to study piano with Arthur greene.

Before America, I was educated in Shanghai. Before Shanghai, I was born & raised in Kunming. my family came from a little village in zhuji, Zhejiang (浙江诸暨).

currently i live in Houston with my cats sara and teodor (adopted at the incredible humane society).

in my free time, i love both playing and reviewing music. Check out my youtube channel and blog series “aesthetician.” i’m also an unserious runner, yogi, and workoutholic—usually at the same time!

you can reach me at yfang21[at]cougarnet[at]uh[dot]edu or yuanff[at]umich[dot]edu.