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Dr. Kenneth E. Goodson (goodson AT vk.stanford DOT edu) joined Stanford University in 1994, where he is an Associate Professor with the Mechanical Engineering Department. He received the B.S. (1989), M.S. (1991), and Ph.D. (1993) in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as the B.S. (1989) and Louis Sudler Prize in Humanities. Goodson was a visiting scientist at Daimler-Benz AG, Germany, where he worked for sixteen months during 1993 and 1994 with the Materials Research Group on the thermal design of power circuits for vehicles. His research has been recognized through the Office of Naval Young Investigator Award (Electronics Division, 1996-1999), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1996-2000), and the Best Student Paper Award at the 1992 IEEE Electron Devices Meeting. He serves as a Daimler-Benz Circle Member Group Research Advisor and a Texas Instruments FMA Program Advisor. In Spring, 1996, he was a JSPS Visiting Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. |
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Cecilia Gichane-Bell (gichane AT stanford DOT edu) is really the person running this research group. She also serves as our staff administrator and the graduate students' mom away from home. |
Mehdi Asheghi (masheghi AT andrew DOT cmu.edu) received the B.S. (1990) from the Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and the M.S. (1993) from California State University. He attended classes and performed research with faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, before coming to Stanford in 1994. He is now on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Kaustav Banerjee received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999. Since March 1999, he has been with Stanford University as a Research Associate at the Center for Integrated Systems. He also works as a technical consultant in the EDA industry. His research interests include signal integrity, reliability, thermal and performance optimization issues in high-performance VLSI and high-frequency (RF) mixed-signal applications. He is also interested in all aspects of integrated heterogeneous circuits and systems including System-on-Chip designs. He is currently on the faculty of Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara.
Dr. Abdullahel Bari received the D.Eng. degree from Louisiana Tech University in 2001. In August 2001 he joined Professor Ken Goodson's group as a post-doctoral scholar. Since then he has been involved with the DARPA project titled Electrokinetic Micro Coolers and currently he is working on the development of a micro heat exchanger for application in fuel-cells. His research interests include MEMS, Electronic Packaging, Microscale Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics.
Dr. Manish Chandra received the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1993 and the Masterˇ¦s degrees in both Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1998. In the same year, he joined Professor Khuri-Yakubˇ¦s Ultrasonics Group in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and got his Ph.D. degree in 2004. Following that, he joined Professor Goodson's Micro Heat Transfer group in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University as a post doctoral scholar.
Ajit M. Chaudhari worked as a research assistant (1996) on the liquid-crystal thermometry of micromachined silicon devices for DNA thermal replication. He received the B.S. (1996) in Biological Sciences and Mechanical Engineering and the M.S. (1996) in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He received the Edgar Meakin Memorial Fellowship (1996) and a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (1997).
DaChen Chu received the B.S. (1998) in physics at the University of Science and Technology, China. He is pursuing a Ph.D in Physics (co-advised by Prof Fabian Pease). His research project is the thermal management in electron beam lithography, supported by Intel.
Daniel A. Fletcher received the B.S. (1994) in Engineering from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University and the D. Phil. (1996) from the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. He was a Rhodes Scholar (1994-1996) and a recipient of the Princeton University Tau Beta Pi Prize (1994). His Ph.D. studies at Stanford were funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. His research involves micromachined optics for high-resolution microscopy. He is currently on the faculty of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley.
David Fogg received the B.S. degree (2000) from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the M.S. degree (2002) from Stanford University, all in Mechanical Engineering. He has spent nearly 2 years in industry through co-operative assignments and contract work with Boeing and Knolls Atomic Power Lab respectively. He was a Navy Nuclear Propulsion Fellow sponsored by the DOE and a Doctoral Candidate in Prof. Goodson's group working towards understanding transient phenomena in two-phase microchannel heat exchangers for the thermal management of microprocessors, a project sponsored by Intel. Currently he is an engineer at Creare.
Dr. Carlos Hidrovo received the S.B. degree (1995) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the M.S. degree (1996) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the Ph.D. degree (2001) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in Mechanical Engineering. As a Ph.D. student, Dr. Hidrovo was a member of the Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory and worked on tribology, lubrication and fluorescence based optical diagnostics. This latter work earned him the American Society of Mechanical Engineering 2001 Robert T. Knapp Award. After finishing his Ph.D., Dr. Hidrovo took a Research Scientist position in the Optical Engineering Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a Research Associate in Prof. Goodson's group working towards the understanding of microscale two-phase flow and transport for water management purposes in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC), a project sponsored by Honda. He is currently a faculty at University of Texas - Austin
Xuejiao Hu (jack DOT hu AT intel DOT com) received the B.S (1999) and the M.S. (2001) in Thermal Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing with highest honors. His Ph.D. studies worked on advanced thermal interface materials. He is currently with Intel at Chandler, AZ.
Sungjun Im (sjim AT stanford DOT edu) received the B.S. (1998) in Metallurgical Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea, and the M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2006) in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. His thesis work focused on thermal conduction phenomena in VLSI circuits and systems. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher with Prof. Kaustav Banerjee (UC Santa Barbara) investigating electro-thermal transport in carbon nanotube interconnects and emerging CMOS structures.
Dr. Ankur Jain received the B.Tech. (2001) with highest honors in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in March 2003.
Dr. Linan Jiang received the B.S. degree (1987) and the M.S. degree (1990) in Aerodynamics from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. From 1990 to 1996, she worked at the Shenyang Aerodynamics Institute, China. She received the Ph.D. degree (1999) in Mechanical Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She then joined Professor Ken E. Goodson's research group as a Research Associate in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She has been working on the DARPA project titled Electrokinetic Micro Coolers. Her research interests include MEMS, electronic/MEMS packaging technology, advanced micromachining technology, novel microstructures, integrated microsensors, microscale heat transfer and fluid mechanics.
Y. Sungtaek Ju received the B.S. (1993) in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea, and the M.S. (1995) in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. At Seoul National University he received the Presidential Award (1993), the Alumni Association Award (1993), and the Presidential Fellowship (1990-1993). His Ph.D. studies are funded by a Stanford University Center for Integrated Systems Fellowship. He is currently on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at UCLA.
Dr. Olaf W. Käding (okaeding AT temic DOT de) was a Post-Doctoral Research Affiliate (1995-1996) with the group when he worked on the scanning laser diagnostics of microdevices. He received the Ph.D. (1995) in Physics from the Freie Universität Berlin and the Ramsauer Prize (1995). He recently completed the management training program with TEMIC, Germany.
William P. King received the B.S. (1996) in Mechanical Engineering with Magna Cum Laude in the Honors Program at the University of Dayton with a minor in humanities. He received the M.S. (1998) in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He is an IBM Graduate Research Fellow and spent over one year at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, working in the Micro/Nano Mechanics Group.
Jae-Mo Koo received the B.S. (1994) and M.S. (1996) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Hong-Ik University, Korea. From 1997 to 1998, he worked for Daewoo Electronics and Korea Institute of Science and Technology. He received his second M.S. degree (1999) in Mechanical Engineering from the Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison. He then joined Goodson's research group as a Ph.D student at Stanford. He worked on the Electrokinetic micro cooler project. He was the research group's resident Korean gangster, and a Godfather to all Korean M.E. Students.
Dr. Theresa Kramer received the B.S. degree (1995) from Yale University and the M.S. degree (1997) and Ph.D. degree (2003) from Stanford University, all in Applied Physics. She was a postdoctoral scholar in Professor Ken Goodson's group, working on microfabrication for characterization of two-phase flow in fuel cell microstructures (Honda) and microchannels for microprocessor cooling (Intel). Her research interests include MEMS fabrication and physics and ultra-scaled MOSFET fabrication and physics. She is now with Applied Materials in Santa Clara, CA.
Dr. Katsuo Kurabayashi (katsuo AT umich DOT edu) received the B.S. (1992) in Precision Machinery Engineering (Electromechanical) from the University of Tokyo and the M.S. (1994) in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. He was a summer 1997 intern with the Components Research Group at Intel Corporation, Santa Clara. He will receive the Ph.D. from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is currently on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan.
Eon Soo Lee received the B.S.(1999) in Mechanical Engineering at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea as a LG Yonam Fellow Student and then he worked in Ship Building Division at Hyundai Heavy Industries, Korea for over two years (1999-2001). Since joining Stanford University in 2002, he received the M.S.(2004) the Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (co-advised by Prof. John Eaton) working toward understanding on two-phase microchannel flow and transport in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) sponsored by Honda. Before joining the fuel cell project, he was working on the turbulence modification by particles using PIV techniques in the Multiphase Laboratory of Prof. John Eaton. Currently he is an engineer at Samsung
Angela McConnell received her B.S. with highest honors in Mechanical Engineering from UIUC (1998), her M.Phil. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cambridge (1999), and her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University (2005). She is now with Epson in Cambridge, UK.
Dr. Kevin Ness received the B.S. (1999) in Mechanical Engineering with Highest Honors and then the M.S. (2000) in Material Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He got a Ph.D. at Stanford working with BioMEMS. His Ph.D. studies were funded by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Currently he is an engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Dong-Wook Oh (elasty5 AT snu DOT ac DOT kr) received B.S. (2003) degree in Mechanical Engineering at Yonsei University, Seoul Korea. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Seoul National University and visited the microheat group from Oct, 2005 to Feb, 2006. He measured thermal conductivity of aluminium oxide nanofluids by using the 3 omega method.
Wendy Ong received the B.S. (2003) in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. When she is not enjoying various outdoor pursuits, worrying about sustainable energy and the conservative take-over, or talking in the third person, she works on the Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells project, sponsored by Honda.
Jay Paidipati received a B.S. (2002) in mechanical engineering from UIUC with highest honors and graduated on the Bronze Tablet at UIUC. He is currently doing research on microscale gas flows and the development of a microheat exchanger. His studies are currently funded by a Stanford Graduate Engineering Fellowship.
Anthony M. Pettes received his B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering and B.A. in Geology from Duke University in 2001 and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2007. His interests include heat transfer in microelectronic devices, microfabrication, and MEMS and his research encompasses thermoelectric device optimization in the presence of thermal and electrical boundary resistances. Mr. Pettes was funded by the Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program, NASA Harriet G. Jenkins Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program, and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program and was a former U.S. Marine Corps officer and combat veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Dr. Eric Pop completed the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford with Profs. Kenneth Goodson (ME) and Robert Dutton (EE) in December 2004. His thesis work focused on coupled electro-thermal transport in nanoscale transistors, and included the development of a Monte Carlo code for self-heating in silicon. Before Stanford, he spent several years at MIT in various pursuits not excluding Electrical Engineering and Physics (M.Eng. EE, B.S. EE, B.S. Physics 1999). He was a post-doc with Profs. Kenneth Goodson and Hongjie Dai (Chemistry) studying electro-thermal transport in carbon nanotubes. Currently he is a faculty at University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign.
Raymond G. Schuder (ray_schuder AT hp DOT com) developed the microdevice teaching experiments (1995-1996) at the Microscale Thermosciences Teaching Laboratory. He received the M.S. (1997) in Mechanical Engineering and the Centennial Teaching Assistant Award from Stanford University. He now works with Hewlett Packard.
Senthil Singaravelu received his B.E. (2001) in Mechanical Engineering from PSG College of Technology, India. He completed his M.S. and Degree of Engineer in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. His interests include Micro Heat Transfer, Embedded Systems and Robotics. He is currently working as Thermal/Mechanical Engineer (R&D) for Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA.
Sanjiv Sinha received the B.Tech. (1999) and the Institute Silver Medal in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He received the M.S. (2001) in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He was one of the recipients of the ATT Asia/Pacific Leadership Award in 1999. He is working on fundamental issues in sub-continuum thermal transport relevant to semiconductor devices. His studies are funded by a Stanford Graduate Fellowship. He is now with Intel in Portland, OR.
Dr. Uma Srinivasan received the B.S. (1988) in Physics at Vimala College, Trichur, India, the M.S. (1991) in Physics at Queen Mary's College, Madras, India, and the Ph.D. (1997) in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. She specializes in studies involving materials science, cryogenics, magnetism, and thermophysical properties. Between 1995 and 1997 she was a guest scientist at the Low-Temperature Laboratory of the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid-State Research, Stuttgart, Germany, with support from a German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship.
Deepak Subburam graduated from Raffles Junior College, Singapore, 1994. He is currently investigating heat generation in organic light emitting devices. Represented Singapore in 25th International Physics Olympiad held at Beijing, 1994. He received the SINDA Academic Excellence Awards, 1992 and 1994.
Per G. Sverdrup received the B.S. (1996) in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State University and the M.S. (1997) and Ph.D. (2000) in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He is now with Intel in Santa Clara, CA.
Maxat N. Touzelbaev received the B.S. (1992) and the Red Diploma Award from the Department of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics at Kazakh State University, Kazakhstan. He received the M.S. (1994) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arkansas. His Ph.D. studies have included several months with the Materials Research Group, Daimler-Benz AG, in Ulm, Germany. He is also an accomplished car mechanic. He is now with AMD in Sunnyvale, CA.
Sebastien Vigneron received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering (2002) and a M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics (2003), both from Ecole Polytechnique in France. He is currently pursuing a second M.S. degree in Aeronautics & Astronautics at Stanford University. He is working on the Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells Project, sponsored by Honda, and is currently interested in the modeling part of this project, especially concerning the two-phase flow in the microchannel with a porous wall.
Evelyn Wang received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. (2000) and her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University (2001). She got a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering (co-advised by Tom Kenny). She was supported by the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Currently she is a faculty at M.I.T.
Fu-Min Wang received the B.S. (1993) and M.S. (1995) in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University. He received his second M.S. (2000), majored in MEMS and specialized in microscale heat transport phenomena, from Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at UCLA. He worked on electrical test structures for nanometer-scale overlay metrology funded by DARPA with Prof. Fabian Pease in Electrical Engineering and was a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering with Prof. Kenneth Goodson at Stanford University. He developed microsystems integrated with heaters, temperature sensors, pressure sensors, and microchannel with distributed liquid injection to visualize and investigate two phase transport phenomena in the microchannel for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell applications sponsored by Honda.
Roy M. Zeighami received the B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tennessee Knoxville in August 1998 and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999. He is currently with Hewlett Packard.
Lian Zhang received the B.S. degree from the Mechatronics Department, Beijing Institute of Technology in 1994 and M.S. from the Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University in 1997. She did research at Stanford under a Stanford Graduate Fellowship (SGF). She turned in her Ph.D. thesis (entitled "Micro Heat Exchangers for VLSI Cooling") in the spring of 2002.
Peng Zhou received the B.S. (1995) and the M.S. (1997) from the Department of Modern Mechanics at the University of Science and Technology, China, where he was also awarded the Elite Experimental Science Prize (1994), the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Prize (1995), and the Guo-mo-ruo Prize (1997). He completed his Ph.D in the packaging sciences with support from the Semiconductor Research Corporation. He is now with Cooligy in Mountain View, CA.