Yang Dianyi is a DPhil (PhD) candidate in Politics at the University of Oxford. He holds an MSc in Political Science (Political Science and Political Economy) and a BSc in Politics and International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

His research focuses on government–central bank relations, with particular attention to fiscal-monetary interactions and institutional design. He also applies data science methods to social science research, including large language models (LLMs), quantitative text analysis, and interactive data visualization.