Yaroslava G. Yingling is Distinguished Professor, Associate Department Head and Director of Undergraduate Program at Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her University Diploma in Computer Science and Engineering from St. Petersburg State Technical University of Russia in 1996 and her PhD in Materials Engineering and High Performance Computing from the Pennsylvania State University in 2002. She carried out postdoctoral research at Penn State University Chemistry Department and at the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute prior to joining North Carolina State University in 2007. Yingling leads an active interdisciplinary research program that focuses on the development of materials informatics approaches, advanced computational models and novel multiscale molecular modeling methods for investigations of properties and processes in composite, soft and biological materials. Yingling and her students have engaged actively in a variety of projects exploring assembly of biomolecules on surfaces and interfaces, ab-initio design of nanomaterials for industrial and pharmaceutical applications, de novo biomolecular structure prediction, and development of advanced multiscale methods for the prediction of properties and responsive behavior of functional complex materials and application of data-science techniques to heterogeneous data.