Y. Yang (Yiran)
Employee - Geography
Heyendaalseweg 141
6525 AJ NIJMEGEN
Postbus 9108
6500 HK NIJMEGEN
Yiran Yang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment and Interdisciplinary Hub for Digitalization and Society (iHub). She is also a researcher at Radboud University Network on Migration Inclusion (RUNOMI).
Yiran did her PhD at Leiden University on the origin of prejudice among underrepresented ethnic children and some social-contextual factors they are exposed to. Her current research focus is on potential discrimination risks in artificial intelligence in the context of migration. She is particularly interested in racial and gender bias in technologies at EU borders and in AI-generated images.