June 24, 2025
By Patricia Waldron
In 2020, Yian Yin teamed up with economists at Northwestern University to look at the impact of researchers who had shifted their focus to study the COVID pandemic. He saw that these researchers faced a "pivot penalty" – their COVID-related work received less attention than previous contributions in their old field – and the greater the pivot, the worse the penalty.
February 27, 2024
By Louis DiPietro
“The science of science” is a quizzical, albeit accurate, description of Yian Yin’s research.
An assistant professor of information science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, Yin uses mathematical and computational methods to mine data and examine the factors that help (or hinder) scientific research and innovation.
November 30, 2023
Yian Yin, assistant professor of information science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, has been named to this year’s Forbes 30 under 30: Science list.
Forbes recognized Yin for his work in developing mathematical and computational tools to demystify the complex dynamics that underpin scientific progress and technological advancement.
