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Adela Ben-Yakar
Adela Ben-Yakar is an Israeli biomedical engineer who is the Harry Jr. L. Kent Endowed Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research uses the tools of photonics to address challenges in medical diagnostics and therapeutics. She is a Fellow of SPIE, Optica and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Early life and educationBen-Yakar has always been interested in space exploration, and wanted to be an astronaut as a child.[1] Ben-Yakar studied aeronautical engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where she earned a master's degree.[citation needed] She moved to the United States for graduate research, embarking on a doctoral program at Stanford University.[citation needed] Her research studied transverse jets in supersonic crossflows, a critical aspect to the design of hypersonic air-breathing propulsion engines.[2] During her PhD she combined space studies with photonics.[1] She combined planar laser-induced fluorescence and ultrafast framing rate schileren imaging, and propose improved injection schemes for flame holding.[2] After earning her doctorate, she remained at Stanford as a postdoctoral researcher.[citation needed] Research and careerIn 2005, Ben-Yakar moved to the University of Texas at Austin, where she was made a professor in 2016.[3] She works in optics and photonics for medical diagnostics and therapies. She has created systems for nonlinear brain imaging, endoscopies and ultrafast laser microsurgery.[4] Her endoscopes were proposed to replace traditional scalpels, using powerful laser pulses to penetrate living tissue, and minimize collateral damage.[5] Ben-Yakar is the co-founder of vivoVerse, which uses AI-powered data analytics and microfluidics to test drugs and molecules.[6] Awards and honors
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