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 raised in Shanghai. Before Shanghai, I was born in Kunming.

currently i live in Houston with my cat teodor (kudos to the incredible humane society).

in my free time, i enjoy making music and writing. Check out my youtube channel and blog series “aesthetician.”

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