Yong-Ak (Rafael) Song's Biography

Yong-Ak (Rafael) Song, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi

Yong-Ak (Rafael) Song received MEng degree in Mechanical Engineering from the RWTH Aachen University of Technology in 1993, and Ph.D. degree from the School of Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University in 1996. He was a senior research scientist at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) until 2001. He moved to Boston and worked at Fraunhofer USA - Center for Manufacturing Innovation and then at MIT until 2012. He is currently an assistant professor in the Division of Engineering, New York University in Abu Dhabi and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering at New York University in Brooklyn, NY. His main research interests are on various aspects of micro- and nanoscale bioengineering including biosensors for point-of-care diagnostics, biomechanics of multicellular organisms and biomimetics.