Yihan graduated from UC Davis in 2017 with B.S. in Biological Sciences. Upon graduation until 2019 she worked as a lab assistant and developed her interest in neuroscience research and mentorship. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Neuroscience graduate group at UC Davis. Her research interest is on neuronal activity and its role in learning and adaptation to environmental stimulus. She is engineering and characterizing new biosensors to investigate functional activity of synaptic glutamate and neuropeptides.