Feiyang Liu
Brief Biography:
Feiyang grew up in Beijing, China, before moving to the U.S. to earn her B.S. in Biology from Tufts University. During her undergraduate studies, an internship at the New England Wildlife Center exposed her firsthand to the impacts of wildlife diseases. Realizing that protecting wildlife populations requires epidemiological tools, she began building a foundation in quantitative research. She completed a capstone project modeling chimpanzee behavioral ecology and led fieldwork in Costa Rica investigating wildlife clay-licking behaviors. To further develop her epidemiological skills, Feiyang participated in VILP, working in Dr. Casey Cazer's lab to analyze antimicrobial prophylaxis and surgical site infections in low-resource sterilization clinics. Now a student in Cornell’s combined DVM-PhD program, she is excited to merge her clinical veterinary training with statistical modeling to answer large-scale conservation questions.
Education:
B.S. in Biology, Minor in Biological Anthropology, Tufts University, 2025
Research Interests:
Feiyang’s research interests center on wildlife conservation, One Health, and infectious disease epidemiology. For her future career, she aims to build a comprehensive skill set by integrating field investigations, laboratory diagnostics, and computational epidemiological analysis. She is eager to learn all aspects of this multidisciplinary approach, with the ultimate goal of translating single clinical observations into population-level studies that inform tangible disease management and conservation policies.