Ben-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 career
In 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]
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