Some people are built like a straight line. KCAT is built like a circuit. Kat Yao — stage name KCAT — is a doctoral PhD student in neuroscience at Yale , a house DJ , and a producer based between Connecticut and New York City . And the more you read her answers, the more you realize the headline isn’t “DJ who’s also smart” or “PhD who also DJs.” It’s something deeper: KCAT is the kind of person who refuses to let the world reduce her into one clean label. Because her whole