Pepper Yitong Huang

Yitong Pepper Huang is an applied mathematician who conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of mathematics, statistics, and the life sciences. She develops mathematical models and computational methods to investigate complex dynamics from high-dimensional and time-series data. Her research primarily aims to track and steer sleep and circadian rhythms under real-world conditions. She is also interested in computational social sciences.

 

Prior to joining Smith, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology (now the National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology) and the Department of Molecular Biosciences at Northwestern University. She earned her B.A. degree in mathematics from Franklin and Marshall College and her Ph.D. in mathematics from Dartmouth College.