Regular biography
Yong-Ak (Rafael) Song is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi. His research and teaching interests span mechanical engineering disciplines such as design and manufacturing of MEMS devices, fluid mechanics, and micro/nanofabrication, as well as biological engineering areas such as BioMEMS devices for separation and detection of biomolecules, neuroprosthetic implants, and transport phenomena in biological systems. He received his BS, MS, and PhD from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and worked at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology as a Senior Research Scientist. He joined Fraunhofer USA as a Senior Engineer in 2001 and worked in the Micro/Nanofluidic BioMEMS Group at MIT as a Research Scientist. Song held an appointment as a Research Fellow at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston until he joined NYU Abu Dhabi in September 2012.