Levent Yobas's Biography

Levent Yobas, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University Of Science And Technology

Dr Yobas is currently Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
From 2002-2010, he was with the Institute of Microelectronics (IME) under the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) Singapore, where he served as Senior Research Engineer and then led the Bioelectronics Group as Member of the Technical Staff.
He also held adjunct faculty positions with the
Bioengineering Division at National University of Singapore (NUS) and the
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
Prior to his post in Singapore, he worked in the US developing microtechnologies for biomedical applications.
His research is mainly focused on silicon-based micro/nanofabrication technologies for life sciences, particularly lab-on-a-chip microfluidics for drug discovery and point-of-care diagnostics.
Dr. Yobas received his BSc degree in electrical engineering from Hacettepe University, Turkey, MSc and PhD degrees both in biomedical engineering from Case Western Reserve University, USA.