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Dr. Mary Yang
2023
Fellows Program
Professor of Information Science; Director of MidSouth Bioinformatics Center
University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR)
Dr. Mary Yang is a Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She received her bachelor’s degree in engineering and physics from Hunan University, followed by an MSECE in Electrical and Computer Engineering, an MS in Experimental Solid State Physics, and a PhD in Computational Science and Physics from Purdue University. She completed her postdoctoral training in Human Genomics and Bioinformatics at the National Human Genome Research Institute and conducted research as a Research Fellow at the same institution from 2008 to 2012.
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ARA Academy Member Dr. Mary Yang is associate professor of Information Science at UA Little Rock, and she is the lead instructor for bioinformatics courses. Broadly speaking, bioinformatics is a multidisciplinary field encompassing molecular biology, genetics, computer science, mathematics, and statistics. Dr. Yang, who established the Systems Genomics Laboratory at UA Little Rock, seeks to build a strong research agenda that tackles current challenges in bioinformatics and data science fields.