Yixuan He completed her PhD (DPhil) degree at Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, in 2024. Her thesis title was "Graph Neural Networks for Network Analysis," supervised by Professor Gesine Reinert and Professor Mihai Cucuringu. During her doctoral studies, she was honored to be selected as a Clarendon Scholar fully funded by University of Oxford. Prior to receiving her doctorate, she obtained a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and statistics at the University of Edinburgh in 2020 and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and applied mathematics at South China University of Technology in 2020. During her undergraduate studies, she went on an exchange program in spring of 2018 to University of California, Berkeley and conducted summer research in 2019 at University of California, Los Angeles. Broadly speaking, her research focus is on graph neural networks, machine learning, and mathematical modeling.