Nini Rao, Ph.D.
Email: raonn at uestc dot edu dot cn
Professor Nini Rao successively received her B.A., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at UESTC. Since 1989, she has been engaged in teaching and research in UESTC，during which, she made academic visiting at University of Bradford in UK, National University of Singapore and University of Georgia in USA and Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital in 1997-1998, 2006, 2008 and 2016 respectively. Prof. Rao was honored with the outstanding expert with outstanding contribution to Sichuan province in 2005 and academic and technical leader in Sichuan province in 2010, and acquired a third-class prize of progress of science and technology of Sichuan Province in 2012. She received more than 20 research grants and published more than 140papers. In the aspects of teaching, she is the responsible person of National Excellent Course of Biomedical Processing, and received the second-class and third-class of Sichuan Province outstanding teaching awards in 2000 and 2005 respectively. Her memberships and volunteer works include the chairs of sessions in international conferences, member of board of governors of Chinese biomedical engineering society, associate editor of Hans Journal of Computational Biology, etc.