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Yasemin M. Akay is an Instructional Associate Professor at the University of Houston, holding a Ph.D. and M.S. from Rutgers University. Her research integrates biomedical engineering, neurophysiology, health informatics, and cognitive neuroscience, with recent work on glioblastoma multiforme elasticity, sEMG-based hand gesture recognition, wide-area Ca²⁺ imaging for pain monitoring, and sleep posture classification using pressure sensing. She serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE OJEMB and has secured NSF funding, including a GOALI award for wearable MEMS microphone arrays. Akay maintains extensive international collaborations spanning institutions across the US, Japan, China, Australia, Sweden, the UK, Greece, Israel, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
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