About Dr. Mary Yang

Director of MidSouth Bioinformatics Center and Professor of Joint Bioinformatics GraduateProgram,George Washington Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Bio.

Dr. Mary Yang received the MS, MSECE and Ph.D. degrees all from Purdue University. She joined the National Human Genome Research Institute in 2005, where she has been working on various projects related to genomics and systems biology. She has been Founding Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, a NIH PubMed fully indexed journal and is on editorial broads of Journal of Supercomputing and International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. She was recruited to Arkansas as Associate Professor and Director of the Joint Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program of University of Arkansas Little Rock College of Engineering & Information Technology and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and has served on the Steering Committee of NIH funded AR INBRE. She is the recipient of the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, the Purdue Research Foundation Fellowship, the IEEE Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Outstanding Achievement Awards, the NIH Academic Research Enhancement Award, NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence and the Basic Science Research Award of Arkansas Science and Technology Authority. Dr. Yang’s systems genomics research laboratory is supported by HHS/NIH, HHS/FDA/NCTR and ASTA.