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Dr. Kenneth E. Goodson (goodson AT stanford DOT edu) is Professor and Vice Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.
Goodson was educated at MIT (Ph.D. 1993, MS 1991, BSME 1989, BSH 1989) and spent two post-doctoral years with the Materials Group at Daimler-Benz AG. His Stanford research group
includes approximately 20 students, research associates, and affiliated faculty. The group studies thermal transport phenomena in semiconductor nanostructures, energy conversion devices,
and microfluidic heat sinks, with a focus on those occurring with very small length and time scales. Goodson is a co-founder and former CTO of Cooligy, Inc., which builds microfluidic
cooling systems for computers and was acquired by Emerson, Inc., in 2005. Goodson received the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer Outstanding Reviewer Award, and now serves as an
Associate Editor for this Journal. Goodson serves as Editor-in-Chief of Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering. He has been a JSPS Visiting Professor at
The Tokyo Institute of Technology and received the ONR Young Investigator Award and the NSF CAREER Award. He and his group have published more than 100 archival journal articles,
150 conference papers, and ten books and book chapters, which have been recognized through best paper awards at SEMI-THERM, the Multilevel interconnect Symposium, SRC TECHCON, and the IEDM. |
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Elah Bozorg-Grayeli (ebozorgg AT stanford DOT edu) received his B.S. with honors in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (2008).
He is currently pursuing his M.S. and Ph.D. His research interests involve understanding nanoscale heat conduction in thin films and in junctions between dissimilar materials.
He is currently working on measuring the thermal properties of phase change memory and electrode materials using nanosecond and picosecond thermoreflectometry.
He is supported by the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, and is an Honorary Stanford Graduate Fellow. |
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Milnes David (mpdavid AT stanford DOT edu) received his BS in Mechanical Engineering with highest honors in 2004 from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
While there, he was involved in the co-operative work/study program with Rockwell Automation where he worked as a Manufacturing Engineer.
He is currently pursuing a Masters/PhD at Stanford (co-advised by Dr. Tom Kenny) and is supported by the Stanford Graduate Fellowship.
His current research includes the metrology of two-phase micro-channel flows using fluorescence and the study and development of a MEMS vapor compression
refrigeration system for use in microprocessor cooling. |
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Yuan Gao (yuangao AT stanford DOT edu) received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University (2007).
She is currently pursuing her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Her current research interests
include nanostructured thermal interfaces and thermoelectric energy recovery. She is supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. |
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Patricia Gharagozloo (perahm AT stanford DOT edu) received her BS degrees (2004) from the University
of Washington in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Computational Mathematical
Sciences. She is currently finishing her MS (2006) in ME at Stanford, where
her studies are funded by a NSF Fellowship. Her research interests are
in Microscale Heat Transfer and the Thermal Management of Electronics Packaging.
She is currently working on advance thermal interface materials and nanofluids. |
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Saniya LeBlanc (sleblanc AT stanford DOT edu) earned her B.S. in
Mechanical Engineering with highest honors from Georgia Institute of
Technology. As a Churchill Scholar, she received a Master's of
Philosophy in Engineering from Cambridge University where her thesis
was in development of a MEMS bimorph actuator. She demonstrated a
commitment to educational equity by serving in Teach for America as a
high school math and physics teacher in Washington, D.C. Saniya is
currently pursuing M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at
Stanford University on a National Science Foundation Graduate Research
Fellowship. Her current research is in characterizing novel
thermoelectric materials and simulating thermoelectrics in macro-scale
systems.
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Jaeho Lee (zeost AT stanford DOT edu) received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with highest honors
from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007 and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2009.
Jaeho is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. His current research is in characterizing
thermal properties of phase change materials and studying their impact in PRAM devices. |
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Joo Hyun Lee (jhyunl AT stanford DOT edu) received the B.S.(2003) in
Mechanical Engineering at Korea University, Seoul, Korea and received my M.
S.(2005) in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. He is interested in
microscale heat transfer and fluid flow. He is pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical
Engineering at Stanford and currently working on Convection Performance of
Nanofluids for Electronics Cooing sponsored by ONR. His advisor is Prof.
John Eaton and co-advisor is Prof. Ken E. Goodson. |
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Zijian Li (lizj AT stanford DOT edu) received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in microelectromechanical systems from Tsinghua University in 2008.
He is currently pursuing his M.S. and Ph.D. at Stanford University and is supported by the Stanford Graduate Fellowship.
His research interests include micro/nanoscale transport phenomena and their applications in phase change memory. |
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Amy Marconnet (amymarco AT stanford DOT edu) received her BS in Mechanical Engineering (2007) from University of
Wisconsin at Madison. While studying at Madison, Amy did research in the Electromagnetic
Materials Processing Lab and interned for three summers at L-3 Communications: Electron
Devices Division in San Carlos, CA. She is currently pursuing her MS in Mechanical
Engineering at Stanford University and is supported by a Stanford Graduate Fellowship and
a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She is working in the
Microscale Heat Transfer Laboratory and her current research focuses on two-phase heat
exchangers. |
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Joe Miler (jmiler AT stanford DOT edu) received his BS in Mechanical Engineering with a
concentration in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 2006. His research focuses on
characterizing and mitigating flow instabilities in two-phase microscale heat exchangers.
He is a recipient of the Stanford Dept. of Mech. Eng. Graduate Teaching and Research
Fellowship. |
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Matt Panzer (mpanzer AT stanford DOT edu) received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (2003).
He is currently finishing his Masters in Mechanical Engineering (2006) at Stanford, and is funded by the Stanford Graduate Fellowship.
His research interests include microscale heat transfer in advanced thermal management materials, particularly carbon nanotubes. |
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Sarah Parikh (sarah237 AT stanford DOT edu) received her B.S. (2006) with honors
in Mechanical Engineering from University of Texas at Austin. She currently investigating Thermal Boundary Resistance of Phase Change
Materials and conducting research in Engineering Education (co-advised by Dr. Sheri Sheppard). She is the recipiant of the National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship and the Stanford Graduate Fellowship. |
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Anthony M. Pettes (apettes AT stanford DOT edu) received his B.S. 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. He is
currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford
University focusing on nanoscale heat transfer, photonic metrology and
thermal management in electronic devices. He is the recipient of the Bell
Labs Graduate Research Fellowship, the NASA Harriet G. Jenkins Pre-Doctoral
Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. |
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John Reifenberg (jreif AT stanford DOT edu) received his B.S. in mechanical
engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (2003) where he worked with Dr.
Mehdi Asheghi, a previous Goodson student. John is pursuing his M.S. and
Ph.D and is interested in nanoscale phase change and conduction phenomena
with applications for novel electronic devices. He is supported by a
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship and is an
Honorary Stanford Graduate Fellow.
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Jeremy Rowlette (rowlette AT stanford DOT edu) received the BS (2000) and MS (2005) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University and
Stanford University respectively. He recently defended his PhD thesis work on energy conversion in silicon nanostructures using ultrafast laser techniques.
Prior to his doctoral work, he spent several years developing high-speed optical and ion beam based circuit diagnostic systems for microprocessors and flash memory
technologies at Intel (Santa Clara, CA). |
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Julie Steinbrenner (julie DOT steinbrenner AT stanford DOT edu) is pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. She earned her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Valparaiso University, Indiana (2002)
and her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University (2004). Interested in global energy issues and technologies, she is now working to characterize thermal and
hydrodynamic aspects of two-phase flow in microchannels for PEM fuel cell applications. Her work is sponsored by Honda Research & Development, Co. and the Charles. H. Kruger Stanford Graduate Fellowship. |
