Sensing, Modeling and Optimization of Cardiac Systems

Dr. Hui Yang is an IISE fellow, a Professor of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, USA, and is affiliated with the Penn State Cancer Institute (PSCI), Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), and CIMP-3D. He is a department editor of IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering; associate editor of IISE Transactions, IEEE Journal of Biomedical & Health Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science & Engineering, and IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters; and Associate Editor for Proceedings of IEEE CASE, EMBC, and BHI. Dr. Yang is specialized in physics-based and data-driven models of cardiac systems – from ion channels to cells to tissues to the entire heart – for optimized medical decision making.Dr. Bing Yao is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA. Before joining UTK, she was an Assistant Professor at the School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University, USA. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include biomedical and health informatics, computer simulation and optimization, data mining and signal processing, and physical-statistical modeling.

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