Yoel Fink

Yoel Fink is an Associate Professor at the Materials Science and Engineering Department at MIT. Prof. Fink received a B.A. degree in Physics (Cum Laude) and a B.Sc in Chemical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from the Technion, Haifa, in 1994. In 2000 he was awarded a Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That same year he joined the Faculty of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Fink’s research group has pioneered the field of multimaterial multifunctional fibers. He was a recipient of the Weizmann Institute Amos De-Shalit Foundation Scholarship in 1992, was awarded the Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Competition 1994, was a recipient of the Technology Review Award for the 100 Top Young Innovators in 1999 and was awarded the National Academy of Sciences Initiatives in Research Award for 2004. In 2006 he won the Joseph Lane Award for Excellence in Teaching, in 2007 he was named one of the MacVicar Fellows awarded annually in recognition of outstanding teaching abilities. Professor Fink is a co-founder of OmniGuide Inc. and served as its chief executive officer from 2007 to 2010. He is currently director of MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics and Chairman, OmniGuide Inc. Professor Fink is the coauthor of more than forty five scientific journal articles, and holds thirty two issued U.S. patents on photonic fibers and devices.