Dongping Du Accepts Faculty Position at
Texas Tech as an Assistant Professor
With a number of peer-reviewed
signaling. Her dissertation research
publications, awards, and an i-phone
developed physical-statistical
app to her credit, our 2015 PhD
Dr. Shikhar Acharya is joining our IMSE Department as a Visiting
models of cardiovascular systems
Graduate, Dongping Du, had
for investigating unknown
offers
from several
universities,
Instructor
for the
2015-2016 academic year. He completed his
mechanisms in spatiotemporal
but chose Texas Tech to
disease processes and improved
begin her career in academia.
the understanding of disease-
doctorate in Systems Engineering from Missouri University of Sci-
ence and
Technology
Dongping
made
numerous in 2014 and then taught at Missouri Westpresentations as a doctoral student
ern State University prior to coming to USF. Dr. Acharya’s research
under the tutelage of her advisor Dr.
altered cardiac electrical
dynamics. She recently won
second place in the IIE Mobile App
involved
applying
component
analysis and Markov modeling
Huihas
Yang,
and received
awards
such as the
Competition for her Mobile and E-Network
IBM Best Student Paper competition at the 32nd Annual
Smart Health Care (MESH) technology work on which
International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
she also had a feature article in the IEEE Journal of
electromagnetic emissions.
Medicine and Biology Society.
Biomedical and Health Informatics. Dongping came to
to detect malicious electronic devices using their unintended
USF in Spring 2012 after completing both her bachelor
Dongping’s research area is in the highly sought after
and master of science in electrical engineering from
intersection of industrial engineering and healthcare
China University of Mining and Technology in Beijing.
biology, and focuses on computational models of
We wish her the very best in her pursuit to become an
cardiovascular systems for investigating how altered
outstanding professor and researcher.
glycosylation impacts multi-scale cardiac electrical