Elebeoba E. May

Elebeoba E. May (S'99–M'02) received the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh. She joined Sandia National Laboratories' Computational Biology Department in April 2002. Her research interests include the use and application of information theory, coding theory, and signal processing to the analysis of genetic regulatory mechanisms, the design and development of intelligent biosensors, and large-scale simulation and analysis of biological pathways and systems. Dr. May has served as an Associate Editor and Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine and as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine for the Special Issue on Communication Theory, Coding Theory, and Molecular Biology. She is the recipient of a 2005 NIH/NHLBI Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award and the 2003 Women of Color Research Sciences and Technology Awards for Outstanding Young Scientist or Engineer. Organizational memberships include the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the IEEE Information Theory Society.