Daiyao Yi

Third year PhD student

General Information

Full Name Daiyao Yi
Email daiyao.yi@yale.edu

Education

  • 05/2021-
    PhD in Electrical Engineering
    Yale University
  • 09/2019-12/2020
    MS in Biomedical Engineering
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • 09/2015-07/2019
    BE in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    University of Nottingham, Ningbo

Experience

  • 2021 - 2023
    Graduate Research Assistant @ Shreya Saxena
    University of Florida
  • 2022 Fall
    Teaching Assistant
    University of Florida
    • EEL 4930 Neuro-AI
  • 2020-2021
    Graduate Research Assistant @ Yuanfang Guan
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Academic Interests

  • Behavioral modeling and pose estimation from high-dimensional video data for multi-subjects and socially behaving subjects.
    • Yi, D., Musall, S., Churchland, A., Padilla-Coreano, N., Saxena, S.*, "Disentangled multi- subject and social behavioral representations through a constrained subspace variational autoencoder (CS-VAE)" eLife (To Appear), 2023.
    • Yi, D., Saxena, S.*, "Neural Correlations Across Mice During Spontaneous and Task-Related Behaviors" IEEE NER, 2023.

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: skateboarding, running, video games, etc.