Areas of Research Interest:

Cardiovascular remodeling post-MI, Cardiac aging, Nonlinear dynamics of cellular interaction, Parameter estimation, Computational and systems biology

Biography:

Dr. Yufang Jin received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida in 2004. Since then, she has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) as an Assistant Professor. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010. She has also been an associated faculty for Biomedical Engineering Program sponsored by both UTSA and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Dr. Jin’s expertise is in the area of computational biology, mathematical modeling, and control theory. She currently focuses on multi-scale modeling for cardiovascular remodeling post-MI, cardiac aging, and proteomics. She was a recipient of Best Paper Award of 2006 and 2005 Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering Conference. Her research has been supported by NSF, National Institute of Health, Texas Higher Educational Board, and AT&T foundation. She has been an organizer of several special sessions and workshops including the IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, International Conference on BioComp, and IEEE international Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics.

To prospective students:

            Research assistant positions are available for students, who are committed to pursue Ph.D. degrees in the area of multi-scale modeling and analysis for cardiovascular systems. Students must have strong mathematics, statistics, signal processing or control background. Preference will be given to those with MS degree.