Hexin Yang is a research associate in the ISSUES Lab. Her work focuses on student well-being in school settings. She is particularly interested in school and near-school violence prevention, the school learning climate, and school-age children’s well-being across motivational, academic, and psychosocial domains.

She brings expertise in multilevel analysis and spatial random forest modeling and has contributed to projects such as the New Mexico school discipline project and the Chicago firearm prevention project.