She has received several awards such as the Carl Kanter Prize for orchestral composition, the William T. Faricy Award for creative music, and the Gerts and Hammond Farewell Award. Other distinctions include the Nief-Norf Festival International Call for Score Winner, Transient Canvas Composition Fellow, an honorable mention at the DeGaetano Composition Institute, a representative of Taiwan at the 66th International Rostrum of Composers in Argentina, a finalist in the Talea Ensemble Emerging Composer Commissioning Program, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra Competition, and the Young Composers’ Competition of Rudolph Award. Her work has also been the 2019 Ilsuono Contemporary Music Academy’s Choice to be published by AltrEdizioni Casa Editrice; her compositions have been supported by the Illinois Arts Council, the Alice M. Ditson Fund, the Harry N. and Ruth F. Wyatt Fund, and the Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation.

Her music has been featured in Time:Span Festival (USA), Gaudeamus Festival (NL), Ilsuono Contemporary Music Academy (IT), Musiikin Aiko Time of Music (FI), Musikinstitut Darmstadt (GR), Sound of Wander (IT), Voix Nouvelles Academy in Royaumont (FR), International Double Reed Society (USA), Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium (TL), Nanhua Ethnomusicology International Symposium (TW), Asian Classical Music Initiative Conference (USA), and others; has been performed, and/or commissioned by the Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Suono Giallo, Ensemble vocal Les Métaboles, Ensemble Mise-en, Mdi Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, Orkest De Ereprijs, PushBack Collective, Quatuor Tana, Yarn/Wire, 3 People Music, Clarinetist Vasko Dukovski, MSM Orchestra (under the baton of George Manahan), National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, among others.

Yi-Ting received a PhD in composition and music technology from Northwestern University. She completed a Master’s degree in music composition at Manhattan School of Music and received her Bachelor’s degree in Music Composition and Theory at Taipei National University of the Arts.