Mary Yang

Dr. Mary Yang is a NIH scientist in Maryland. She received her Ph.D., MSECE and MS degrees, all from Purdue University, West Lafayette main campus, her post doctoral training from NIH and the research specialist training from NIH, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Oak Ridge, DOE. She also received training in biostatistics and bioinformatics from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. She was the recipient of the Outstanding Interdisciplinary Bisland Dissertation Fellow for Computer Engineering and Biophysics Dual Degrees and NIH Fellow for National Human Genome Research. Dr. Yang works in both engineering practice and translational medicine and was trained as a combined experimental and computer scientist with more than 15 years of teaching, research and engineering practice experience in software engineering and biomedical science. She was the scientific review, advisory and steering committee chair of IEEE Bioinformatics and Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School in 2007 and advisory committee chair of Biocomp and IJCBS.

She is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design and an honorary consulting editor of International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalized Medicine, the official journals of International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine. She has been an editor of more than a dozen journals and proceedings books such as Journal of Supercomputing (Springer Science), International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (World Scientific) and IEEE Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (IEEE). Dr. Yang developed hybrid intelligent systems and contributed to the research in bidirectional promoters, cancer genomics,transmembrane proteins and their disease relevancies. She was a recipient of over a dozen outstanding achievement and best paper awards and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters. Dr. Yang has delivered many invited talks including a number of keynote lectures to promote the emerging field of translational bioinformatics and personalized medicine. She specializes in genomics and machine learning.

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