Yangyang Cheng is a postdoctoral research associate at Cornell University, and a member of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Born and raised in China, Cheng received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 2015, and her Bachelor’s in Science from the University of Science and Technology of China’s School for the Gifted Young. She won the Springer Theses Award in 2016, and was recognized as an LHC Physics Center Distinguished Researcher by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory for her postdoctoral work. Cheng writes the monthly Science and China column for SupChina, a New York-based digital publication covering contemporary China. Her writings have also appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, MIT Technology Review, ChinaFile, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and other publications. She has appeared on numerous radio, print, and TV outlets to comment on science policy and Chinese politics, including BBC, NPR, and ABC Australia.