Jack Yang

Key takeaways

Jack Yang belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Jack Yang to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Jack Yang from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Jack Y. Yang is an American computer scientist and biophysicist. As of 2011, he is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design.

Education Yang received his Ph.D. and MS degrees from Purdue University under the supervision of Okan Ersoy (computer engineering) and Albert Overhauser (biophysics), receiving the grade of summa cum laude and the award of Ph.D. thesis of the year in the USA. His post-doctoral training was from Harvard Medical School and Indiana University School of Medicine, and he received training in biostatistics and bioinformatics from Johns Hopkins University, and in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During this period he spent a few months at the CERN Institute. Yang was trained as a combined experimental and computer scientist with teaching, research, engineering, and in field practice in computer science, biomedical engineering and biophysics.

Career Yang works in engineering and translational medicine, with research interests ranging from cancer homeostasis, computational drug development, high throughput biology, database maintenance and microfluidomics applied to microarray proteomics. He specializes in cancer biology and artificial intelligence. He is an honorary editor for the International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalized Medicine and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, together with partial appointments in Nature and Science, where he contributes regular revisions and comments. He has also been an editor of more than a dozen journals and proceedings books including the Journal of Supercomputing. He was the general chair of the IEEE 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School and Co-PI of several grants form the National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the National Institute of Health. He is also a consultant to Interlink Continental Journal of Biological Sciences, MIR labs, and the International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Yang has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, especially in BMC Genomics. He is a permanent candidate to the Millennium Technology Prize. Yang completed a university speaking tour in Japan, and met with prime minister Yoshihiko Noda to discuss possible solutions to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

References School of Computing uga.edu Archived April 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine "Discover the possibilities of AI with watsonx". IBM. November 27, 2023. Retrieved December 3, 2023. "Mirlabs". Mirlabs. Retrieved December 3, 2023. "International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine (IJFIPM) Inderscience Publishers". www.inderscience.com. Retrieved December 3, 2023. "International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design (IJCBDD) Inderscience Publishers". www.inderscience.com. Retrieved December 3, 2023. Yang, Jack Y; Yang, Mary Qu; Zhu, Mengxia (Michelle); Arabnia, Hamid R; Deng, Youping (2008). "Promoting synergistic research and education in genomics and bioinformatics". BMC Genomics. 9 (1): I1. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-s1-i1. PMC 3226105. PMID 18366597. Yang, Jack Y; Yang, Mary; Arabnia, Hamid R; Deng, Youping (2008). "Genomics, molecular imaging, bioinformatics, and bio-nano-info integration are synergistic components of translational medicine and personalized healthcare research". BMC Genomics. 9 (2): I1. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-s2-i1. PMC 3226104. PMID 18831773. Yang, Jack Y; Li, Guo-Zheng; Meng, Hao-Hua; Yang, Mary Qu; Deng, Youping (2008). "Improving prediction accuracy of tumor classification by reusing genes discarded during gene selection". BMC Genomics. 9 (S1): S3. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-s1-s3. PMC 2386068. PMID 18366616. Li, Guo-Zheng; Meng, Hao-Hua; Lu, Wen-Cong; Yang, Jack Y; Yang, Mary Qu (2008). "Asymmetric bagging and feature selection for activities prediction of drug molecules". BMC Bioinformatics. 9 (S6): S7. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-s6-s7. PMC 2423448. PMID 18541060. Hecker, Joshua; Yang, Jack Y; Cheng, Jianlin (2008). "Protein disorder prediction at multiple levels of sensitivity and specificity". BMC Genomics. 9 (S1): S9. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-s1-s9. PMC 2386074. PMID 18366622. Yang, Jack Y; Yang, Mary (2008). "Predicting protein disorder by analyzing amino acid sequence". BMC Genomics. 9 (Suppl 2): S8. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-s2-s8. PMC 2559898. PMID 18831799. Yang, Jack Y.; Yang, Mary Qu; Ersoy, Okan K. (2003). "Exploring Protein Functional Relationships Using Genomic Information and Data Mining Techniques". Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing — ICANN/ICONIP 2003. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 1073–1080. doi:10.1007/3-540-44989-2_128. ISBN 978-3-540-40408-8. Yang, Mary Q. (July 18, 2006). "Predicting Protein Structure and Function Using Machine Learning Methods". Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports. Retrieved December 3, 2023.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Jack Yang

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Jack Yang claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Jack Yang before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Jack Yang ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Jack Yang

In research: Jack Yang appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Jack Yang in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Jack Yang is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 21st-century American biologists, 21st-century American engineers, 21st-century American physicists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Jack Yang outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

How to study Jack Yang in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Jack Yang means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Jack Yang out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Jack Yang in simple terms?

Jack Y. Yang is an American computer scientist and biophysicist.

Why does Jack Yang matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Jack Yang?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Jack Yang.