Biography

Education Experience

• 2017 - 2022 | University of Illinois Chicago, USA | Mathematics | Ph.D
• 2012 - 2017 | University of Waterloo, Canada | Pure Mathematics and Computer Science | B.Sc.

Work Experience

• 2023 - 2026 | Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), University of Tokyo, Japan | Project Researcher in Mathematics
• 2022 - 2023 | Heidelberg University, Germany | Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Station Geometry & Dynamics | Supervisor: Anna Wienhard

Honors and Awards

• 2021 | MSCS Teaching Assistant Award, UIC
• 2019 | Oberwolfach Leibniz Graduate Student, MFO
• 2019 | Bodmer International Travel Award, UIC
• 2016 | Funding Award for Women In Math Summer School, UBC
• 2012 | President’s Scholarship of Distinction, University of Waterloo

Publications

• [1] G Kydonakis, M Yang, Conformal limits in Cayley components and Θ-positive opers, Advances in Mathematics, 495, 110969 (2026)
• [2] LP Schaposnik, M Yang, Lectures on Complex Lagrangians, Integrable Systems and Quantization, World Scientific (2026)
• [3] EY Chen, E Hsiao, M Yang, (BAA)-branes from higher Teichm\" uller theory, arXiv, 2508.09562 (2025)
• [4] M Yang, A comparison of generalized opers and (,)-opers, Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 53(3), 760-773 (2022)
• [5] M Yang, Generalized Opers, University of Illinois at Chicago (2022)
• [6] I Biswas, LP Schaposnik, M Yang, On the generalized $SO(2n,C)$ -opers, Annals of global analysis and geometry, 60(3), 539-557 (2021)
• [7] I Biswas, LP Schaposnik, M Yang, Generalized B-opers, SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications, 16, 041 (2020)