i’m currently a ma candidate in philosophy at 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: pinghe (2015-2018), jianping west (2012-2015).

Before Shanghai, I was born & raised in Kunming (2000-2012). 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.”

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