Yang received her Bachelors of Science in Biomedical Engineering with a concentration on electronic and computer engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. Then she completed her Master of Bioinformatics at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, where she developed an interest in genomic risk prediction of complex human diseases.

She is now studying for her PhD in the University of Melbourne. Her current research interest is in using machine learning approaches to predict common complex diseases based on genotype and phenotype data.