Who I Am
Curious, interdisciplinary, and always building something.
Hi, I’m Yaqi Huang. I am an undergraduate student pursuing an HBSc degree with a Psychology Specialist and Commerce Major combination at the University of Toronto Mississauga. My academic and creative interests often meet at the same place: understanding people, communicating ideas clearly, and designing experiences that feel thoughtful, accessible, and meaningful.
Through research, student leadership, content creation, and visual design, I have become especially interested in how psychological knowledge can move beyond classrooms and journals into formats that people can actually connect with. This website is a space where I bring together those different parts of my work.
Current Focus
Psychology, research, and creative communication
I am especially drawn to work related to digital wellbeing, emotion, online behavior, child language and development, visual perception, and knowledge translation.
What I Care About
Making ideas understandable, useful, and human.
Across my academic, research, and creative experiences, I am interested in work that combines evidence, empathy, and design.
Psychology & Human Behavior
I am interested in how people think, feel, communicate, and interact with one another, especially in digital and social environments.
Research & Evidence
I enjoy asking questions, organizing information, and using research to better understand real-world problems, from online toxicity to emotion and wellbeing.
Design & Communication
I care about how information looks and feels. Whether through posters, reports, infographics, or web design, I enjoy turning complex ideas into clear visual stories.
Community Impact
Many of my projects are connected to student communities, nonprofit work, mental health awareness, and knowledge-sharing in accessible formats.
How I Work
Soft, organized, and detail-oriented — but not afraid to experiment.
I like projects that involve both structure and creativity. I enjoy planning, organizing information, refining visual details, and thinking carefully about how an audience will experience a piece of work.
At the same time, I am drawn to projects that allow room for experimentation: trying new formats, building visual systems, creating campus-facing content, or translating academic ideas into something more engaging and relatable.
Why This Website Exists
A living portfolio of the things I am learning, making, and becoming.
I created this website to bring together different sides of my work: my resume, research experiences, creative projects, design portfolio, and ongoing academic interests. Instead of treating these as separate identities, I see them as connected. They all reflect my interest in people, communication, and meaningful impact.
As I continue to grow, I hope this site will become a record of my development: the questions I am exploring, the projects I am building, and the ways I am learning to combine psychology, research, design, and care.
Looking Forward
More coming soon.
I am continuing to develop my interests in research, clinical psychology, psychiatry, knowledge translation, and creative communication. In the future, I hope to keep building work that is thoughtful, evidence-based, visually engaging, and useful to real people.