Yi Hu

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Biography

Yi was born in Hangzhou, a city in Southeast China with wonderful landscape. She has always been an animal lover since she was a young child. In 2013, She attended Nanjing Agriculture University with major in veterinary medicine, and then transferred to University of Wisconsin- Madison with animal science major. During undergraduate period, Yi worked as a volunteer in homeless animal shelter, and it had a huge impact on her and made her focus on companion animals, so she decided to choose companion nutrition for her graduate program. In 2018, Yi graduated from UW-Madison with B.S. degree in animal science. Yi moved to University of Illinois for her master’s degree and joined Dr. Goday’s lab as a graduate research assistant. In the future, Yi wants to work as nutritionist in either academic side or pet food industry.

 

Hometown Hangzhou, China
Degrees B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018, Animal Sciences
Career Goals Pet food industry or academia