Dr. Lin Yang is a Research Scientist at Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research, Alberta Health Services–Cancer Care Alberta and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Oncology and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Dr. Yang graduated from Beijing Sports University in 2003, followed by her M.S. in Statistics (2007) and M.S. in Kinesiology & Community Health (2008) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Cambridge (2012). She worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (TREC) Center at Washington University in St. Louis between 2013 and 2015. Her research primarily focuses on the role of energy balance in cancer prevention and survivorship.