Yuling Yan

Yuling Yan received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1991. She held a Research Associate position at Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany from 1992–1995, and served on the mechanical engineering faculty at the University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan, from 1996–1999. She was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii—Manoa from 2002–2005 prior to moving to Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, where she is currently a consulting Assistant Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery. Her primary research interests include biomechanical and dynamic systems, human voice and speech production, laryngeal disorders, and biomedical imaging, visualization, and analysis.