He received his B.Sc. in physics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Following successful completion of his Ph.D. studies, Yelin joined the Wellman Center for Photomedicine as a postdoctoral fellow and an Instructor at the Harvard Medical School. Concurrently, Yelin was a Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Since arriving at the Technion in 2007, the Yelin’s group employs novel optical systems as tools for addressing problems in medicine and biology.