Yangyang Cheng

Yangyang Cheng is a Fellow and Research Scholar at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, where her research focuses on the development of science and technology in China and U.S.-China relations. Her essays on these and related topics have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, MIT Technology Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other publications. She is a columnist at SupChina and a contributing columnist at Physics World. Born and raised in China, Cheng received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago and her Bachelor’s from the University of Science and Technology of China’s School for the Gifted Young. Before joining Yale, she worked on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for over a decade, most recently at Cornell University and as an LHC Physics Center Distinguished Researcher at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.