Yiluan Song

Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, 2023 Cohort, Alum

Current Role: Yiluan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences.

Projecting nature's calendar under climate change

I received my Ph.D. in Environmental Studies in 2023 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a Designated Emphasis in Statistics. My PhD dissertation focused on the interactions between climate change, plant phenology, and human society. Before that, I completed my undergraduate studies in Environmental Biology at the National University of Singapore.

I was interested in conducting interdisciplinary research on biodiversity and seasonality responses to global changes using big data and quantitative methods. Some of my research directions included phenological change, biodiversity change, ecological forecasting, and allergen phenology. In my postdoctoral research, I developed hierarchical Bayesian models to predict changes in phenology under global changes, informing both near-term forecasting and long-term projections.

  • AI Mentor: Yang Chen, Statistics, LSA
  • Science Mentor: Kai Zhu, Environment and Sustainability, School of Environment and Sustainability

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