MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
Council on East Asian Studies

Yangyang Cheng

CEAS Associate-in-Research
Council on East Asian Studies
Research Interests:

Development of Science and Technology in China; US-China Relations

Dr. Yangyang Cheng is an award-winning writer and interdisciplinary scholar, whose research focuses on the development of science and technology in China and US-China relations. She is a Senior Fellow at Asia Society’s Center on US-China Relations. From 2022 to 2026, she was a Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. Her essays have appeared in numerous outlets including The New York Times, The Nation, and Wired, and received several awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA), Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and other media organizations. She is an editor at the Made in China Journal and hosts its Gateway to Global China podcast. Born and raised in China and trained as a particle physicist, she worked on the Large Hadron Collider for over a decade. In Fall 2025, she was a Pritzker Fellow at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics.