Kat Yao
Kat is a PhD student in the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, where she studies the neural mechanisms underlying social behavior with Shreya Saxena and Steve Chang. Her work focuses on latent states associated with social behavior, using data from behavior, physiology, and neural activity to study how animals make social choices. Before Yale, she conducted neurodegeneration research related to Alzheimer’s disease, traumatic brain injury, and chronic opioid use. In the future, she hopes to become a principal investigator and lead research that combines neuroscience, computation, engineering, and data science.
What do you do with Data Science?
I’m very excited to be a Yale Data Science Fellow because it gives me an opportunity to join a supportive community dedicated to data science. I look forward to learn from people in different fields, become more comfortable with data science and machine learning tools, and implement what I've learned in my own research.