Dr. Yang is a research scientist at Devers Eye Institute. She graduated from Tulane University with a degree in Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Yang has extensive experience studying the optic nerve head (ONH) using an experimental glaucoma model. She is currently a primary investigator on Bright Focus grant (2022-2024) and has been co-Investigator on several NIH grants and has published more than 20 key papers in the field.
Her expertise involves 3D reconstruction, quantification, visualization, imaging processing, and statistical data analysis of monkey and human ONH anatomy using 3D histomorphometric reconstructions and optical coherence tomography images.