
Education
PhD in Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
Subjects
Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, Music Theory
Achievements
Graduated with Honors in the Liberal Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a triple major in Philosophy, Music Composition, and Mathematics; University Graduate Continuing Fellowship (2025-26); Billy Bob Draeger Graduate Research Fellowship in the Humanities; Summer Graduate Fellowship; published in The Review of Metaphysics and the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics; presented at the American Philosophical Association and the American Society for Aesthetics
About
Chenyu is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in metaphysics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of logic, with an interdisciplinary background that includes mathematics and music theory. Her research explores the structure of meaning and forms of abstraction, often bridging philosophy with the arts and formal sciences. She has over three years of university-level teaching experience at UT Austin.
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