Email: yyang@tacc.utexas.edu
Yiwen received her Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin in Educational Psychology in Spring 2024. Yiwen served as a graduate research assistant at TACC on the EPIC team from Spring 2021 to Spring 2024. She has been working on various external evaluation projects and was involved in research related to equity in computer science and STEM education. Yiwen joined TACC as a postdoctoral fellow in Summer 2024. Her evaluation and research topics include evaluation of scientific gateways and cyberinfrastructure, evaluation of LCCF projects, and user experiences of computer science education dashboards.
Jacobson, M. R., Baker, S. N., Yang, Y., Childs, J., Wang, Z., & Garbrecht, L.S. (2025). Data sharing and evaluation: Evaluation’s role in improving the quality of open science data sharing platforms. New Directions for Evaluation. https://doi.org/10.1002/ev.20621
Baker, S., Garbrecht, L., Yang, Y., & Fan, Z. (2024). DesignSafe Annual Evaluation Report 2023-2024. DesignSafe-Cyberinfrastructure. https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-hwr8-xh62
Yang, Y. (2024). Influence of Social Comparisons, Big Fish Little Pond Effect, and Social Media on Self-Esteem and Academic Self-Concepts. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin]. Texas ScholarWorks.
Yan, Y., Muenks, K., Mata, R. A. & Yang, Y. (2023) How do undergraduate students’ perceptions of professor cultural competence and growth mindset relate to motivation to engage in intercultural interactions? Soc Psychol Educ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-023-09840-9
Warner, J. R., Baker, S. N., Haynes, M., Jacobson, M., Bibriescas, N., and Yang, Y. (2022) Gender, Race, and Economic Status along the Computing Education Pipeline: Examining Disparities in Course Enrollment and Wage Earnings. 2022 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 1 (ICER '22), Vol. 1. 61–72. https://doi.org/10.1145/3501385.3543968
Yang, Y. (2021, April). Perceived Parents’ Critical Comparisons and Self-Initiated Social Comparison Directions among Chinese Middle School Students. Paper presented at the 2021 Virtual AERA Annual Meeting (AERA), Virtual.
