Yifan received the 2026 Early Career Presenter Fellowship from the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM) at the U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM26) in Pasadena, California. She presented her work, “Programmable Actuation and Control of Super-Modular Magneto-Origami Soft Robots,” and co-chaired the session “Mechanics-Guided Design of Soft Robotics.”