She has been Founding Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, a NIH PubMed fully indexed journal and is on editorial broads of Journal of Supercomputing and International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. She is the recipient of the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, the Purdue Research Foundation Fellowship, the IEEE Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Outstanding Achievement Awards, the NIH Academic Research Enhancement Award, NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence and the Basic Science Research Award of Arkansas Science and Technology Authority. Dr. Yang’s systems genomics research laboratory is supported by HHS/NIH, HHS/FDA/NCTR and ASTA.