MSS alumna Yicheng “Catherine” Wang presents at NC General Assembly's Graduate Education Day
2025 MSS alumna Yicheng “Catherine” Wang (left) served as one of three Duke graduate student presenting at the NC General Assembly's annual Graduate Education Day. (Photo courtesy Wang)
2025 MSS alumna Yicheng “Catherine” Wang served as one of three graduate student representatives from Duke at the NC General Assembly as part of the annual Graduate Education Day. Catherine shared her research — which uses a Bayesian spatial hierarchical model to study flood risk using high resolution environmental data — with legislators and staff.
In March 2025, Catherine traveled to Washington, D.C. to the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, where she won the Student Pitch award. She shared her pitch on the Summit’s main stage to thousands of leading industry leaders, investors, academic researchers, and government policymakers. You can watch the video here.
Catherine will continue her work developing data-driven tools that support climate resilience, with an increasing focus on infrastructure systems like flexible energy loads, grid reliability and disaster planning, as a Ph.D. student in industrial engineering at Georgia Tech this fall.
Congratulations, Catherine!
