Dr. Etienne Z. Gnimpieba is a Research Assistant Professor of bioinformatics in the University of South Dakota (USD) Biomedical Engineering program. As faculty, Dr. Gnimpieba is involved in multiple research activities, including computational systems biology and advanced cyberinfrastructure development for data analysis for bioscience and biomedicine knowledge discovery. He has published articles in Nucleic Acid Research, Molecular Cancer Research (AACR), Molecular Biosystems journal (RSC Publishing), Brain Sciences, Faseb, and several conference proceedings related to computer science usage in Bioscience and Biomedicine. Before Dr. Gnimpieba joined the USD faculty, he received a PhD in biotechnology and bioinformatics, an MS in computational engineering in Informatics and Mathematics for Integrative Biology, and another MS in computer science, specializing in systems modeling, artificial intelligence, and human-machine interfaces.