Jack Y. Yang was a Harvard scientist

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 and chair of board of directors of International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine

International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine

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(ISIBM). As of 2011, he is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design (IJCBDD).

Biography

Yang received his Ph.D. and MS degrees both from Purdue University

Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

, West Lafayette under the supervision of Dr. Okan Ersoy

Okan Ersoy

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 (Computer Engineering

Computer engineering

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) and Dr. Albert Overhauser

Albert Overhauser

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 (Biophysics

Biophysics

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). His post doctoral training was from Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

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 and Indiana University School of Medicine

Indiana University School of Medicine

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, and he received training in biostatistics

Biostatistics

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 and bioinformatics

Bioinformatics

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 from Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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, and in computer science

Computer science

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 from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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. Dr. Yang was trained as a combined experimental and computer scientist with teaching, research and engineering practice in computer science

Computer science

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 and biomedical engineering

Biomedical engineering

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Yang works in both engineering

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 practice and translational medicine

Translational medicine

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. He is an honorary editor for International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalized Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design. He has also been an editor of more than a dozen journals and proceedings

Proceedings

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 books such as International Journal of Pattern Recognition

Pattern recognition

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 and Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence

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 (World Scientific

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), The Journal of Supercomputing

The Journal of Supercomputing

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 (Springer Science), Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops and Proceedings of International Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Genetic and Evolutionary Methods, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and Scientific Computing. He was the General Chair of the IEEE 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics

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 and Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

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 and Co-PI of a National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation

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 grant. He is also a consultant

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 to IJCBS and International Conference on Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics

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 and Computational Biology

Computational biology

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. Dr. Yang has delivered many invited talks including a number of keynote

Keynote

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 lectures to promote the emerging field of functional informatics

Informatics (academic field)

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 and personalized medicine

Personalized medicine

Personalized medicine is a medical model emphasizing in general the customization of healthcare, with all decisions and practices being tailored to individual patients in whatever ways possible...

. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed papers and book chapters. He specializes in cancer

Cancer

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 biology

Biology

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 and artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

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