Changyao Ma is an undergraduate student in the Department of Physics at Jilin University and a prospective Master’s student in physics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her research interests include computational neuroscience, network science, and interdisciplinary topics such as economics and sociology that can be explored with complexity science perspective. Her research experience includes Chimera states in neuronal networks and sRNA-mediated gene regulatory models. In her free time, Changyao enjoys playing basketball, travelling and watching films.