Ph.D. Student
My name is Zixiao Yang. I come from Zhengzhou, China. My research interests are mediated health communication, message framing, and associated mental health issues, currently especially focusing on the function of communicative identities and post-trauma growth following natural disasters in collectivistic culture communities. Before I came to the University of Miami, I earned my bachelor’s degree at Henan University of Economics and Law.
My master’s degree comes from the University of Miami, and I continued my Ph.D. studies here too. My goal after attaining my doctoral degree will be to continue research in the area of health communication. While in this program, I teach STC 103: Statistical Reasoning for Strategic Communication. Some of my favorite things to go are jogging, do e-sports, and Chinese tea art.