Yaroslava Yingling
Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Programs
University Faculty Scholar
Professor

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Yaroslava G. Yingling is Professor of 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 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. She is an Editor for Springer Journal of Materials Science and an Editorial Board Member of ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering and ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. She received the National Science Foundation CAREER award, American Chemical Society Open Eye Young Investigator Award and was named an NCState University Faculty Scholar.
Education
Materials Engineering and High Performance Computing Applications
Pennsylvania State University
Computer Science and Engineering
St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Russia
Honors and Awards
- Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award, 2021
- University Faculty Scholar, North Carolina State University, 2014
- OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the ACS Computers in Chemistry (COMP) Division, 2012
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2012
- NIH National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research exceptional stipend, 2007
- Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Materials Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University, 2003
- Braucher Fellowship for Graduate Student Research , 2002
- Miller Graduate Student Research Award , 2001
Publications
- Assessment of AMBER Force Fields for Simulations of ssDNA
- Oweida, T. J., Kim, H. S., Donald, J. M., Singh, A., & Yingling, Y. G. (2021), JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION, 17(2), 1208–1217. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00931
- Uncertainty Quantification and Sensitivity Analysis of Partial Charges on Macroscopic Solvent Properties in Molecular Dynamics Simulations with a Machine Learning Model
- Peerless, J. S., Kwansa, A. L., Hawkins, B. S., Smith, R. C., & Yingling, Y. G. (2021), Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.0c01204
- Weakly Ionically Bound Thermosensitive Hyperbranched Polymers
- Lee, H., Stryutsky, A., Mahmood, A.-U., Singh, A., Shevchenko, V. V., Yingling, Y. G., & Tsukruk, V. V. (2021), LANGMUIR, 37(9), 2913–2927. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c03487
- Anisotropic Optical and Frictional Properties of Langmuir-Blodgett Film Consisting of Uniaxially-Aligned Rod-Shaped Cellulose Nanocrystals
- Chae, I., Ngo, D., Chen, Z., Kwansa, A. L., Chen, X., Meddeb, A. B., … Kim, S. H. (2020), ADVANCED MATERIALS INTERFACES, 7(9). https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201902169
- Co-assembling Polysaccharide Nanocrystals and Nanofibers for Robust Chiral Iridescent Films
- Xiong, R., Singh, A., Yu, S., Zhang, S., Lee, H., Yingling, Y. G., … Tsukruk, V. V. (2020), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 7. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c08571
- Effect of Octadecylamine Surfactant on DNA Interactions with Graphene Surfaces
- Kim, H. S., Brown, N. A., Zauscher, S., & Yingling, Y. G. (2020), Langmuir, 36(4), 931–938. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b02926
- In silico structure prediction of full-length cotton cellulose synthase protein (GhCESA1) and its hierarchical complexes
- Singh, A., Kwansa, A. L., Kim, H. S., Williams, J. T., Yang, H., Li, N. K., … Yingling, Y. G. (2020), Cellulose, 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-020-03194-7
- Materials matter in phosphorus sustainability
- Jones, J. L., Yingling, Y. G., Reaney, I. M., & Westerhoff, P. (2020, January), MRS BULLETIN, Vol. 45, pp. 7–10. https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2020.4
- Merging Materials and Data Science: Opportunities, Challenges, and Education in Materials Informatics
- Oweida, T. J., Mahmood, A., Manning, M. D., Rigin, S., & Yingling, Y. G. (2020), MRS Advances, 3, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2020.171
- Partially Fluorinated Copolymers as Oxygen Sensitive(19)F MRI Agents
- Taylor, N. G., Chung, S. H., Kwansa, A. L., Johnson, R. R., III, Teator, A. J., Milliken, N. J. B., … Leibfarth, F. A. (2020), CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Vol. 26, pp. 9982–9990. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202001505
Grants
- Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation (CLSF)
- US Dept. of Energy (DOE)(8/01/18 - 7/31/21)
- NextGen Fellowship – Accelerating Materials Science and Educating the​ ​Next​ Generation​ ​of​ ​Scientists​ ​and​ Engineers
- Schmidt Family Foundation(5/01/18 - 9/30/18)
- Heteroaggregation for Nanomanufacturing and Magnetic Alignment of Multifunctional Nanoparticles
- National Science Foundation (NSF)(6/01/18 - 5/31/22)
- Collaborative Research: Design Principles for Multi-functional Polymer Dispersion Blends
- National Science Foundation (NSF)(8/01/17 - 7/31/21)
- Composite Packed-Bed Nanofiltration for High-throughput Desalination
- NCSU Water Resources Research Institute(9/01/16 - 8/31/17)
- EMN-14-S-S-05 Modeling of Diffusion of Additive Compounds in Rubber
- Eastman Chemical Company(11/30/-1 - 10/31/17)
- Wetting of Patterned Silicon Surfaces
- Eastman Chemical Company(1/01/14 - 8/01/14)
- Center For Lignocellulose Structure and Formation
- US Dept. of Energy (DOE)(8/01/14 - 7/31/20)
- Confinement, Dynamics, and Orientation of DNA at Nano-interfaces
- National Science Foundation (NSF)(7/01/14 - 6/30/18)
- Collaborative Research: Supramolecular Materials by Nucleic Acid Block Copolymer Self-Assembly
- National Science Foundation (NSF)(7/15/14 - 6/30/18)