Former Postdocs, Research Associates, and and Visiting Professors

Andrei M. Shkel, 1997 – 1999.
Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine

Sherif Sedky, 2002
CEO, Egyptian Space Agency, on leave from The American University in Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt

Emmanuel P. Quévy, 2002 – 2005.
Co-Founder and CEO, ProbiusDx, Inc., Fremont, California

David Elata, 2006 – 2008.
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel

Jun-Bo Yoon, 2008 – 2009.
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejon, Korea

Ashwin A. Seshia, 2008 – 2009.
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay
Co-Founder, Silicon Microgravity, Ltd., and 8Power, Ltd.

J Provine, 2006 - 2011
Co-Founder and CEO, Aligned Carbon, Mountain View, California

Kentaro Iwami, 2011 - 2012
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Igor Bargatin, 2009 - 2012
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Mohammad (Kamran) Shavezipur, 2011 - 2012
Southern Illinois University, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Edwardsville, Illinois

Anupama Arun, 2012 - 2014
II-VI Inc., Fremont, California

Yasser Anis, 2014
Cairo University, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Cairo, Egypt

Shuai Chang, 2012 - 2015
Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China and
Visiting Professor, Florida International University, University Park, Florida

Justin Snapp, 2012 - 2015
Taraxa.io, Mountain View, California

Tao Wu, 2014 - 2015
ShanghaiTech University, Pudong, Shanghai, China

Chaitanya Gupta, 2011 - 2016
Co-Founder and CTO, ProbiusDx, Inc., Fremont, California

Heather Chiamori, 2016 - 2018

Peter Schindler, 2017 - 2018
Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.

Stephen D. Levine, 2019 - 2020
University of Texas at Dallas, Dept. of Bioengineering
Co-Founder and CTO, Phinomics, Inc., San Carlos, California

Former Ph.D. Students

William C. Tang, Ph.D. 1990, (EECS)
Univ. of California, Irvine, Dept. of Bioengineering

Weijie Yun, Ph.D. 1992, (EECS, joint with Prof. Paul R. Gray)
Tyche Partners, Menlo Park, California

David J. Monk, Ph.D. 1993, (Chemical Engineering, joint with Prof. David S. Soane)

Gary K. Fedder, Ph.D. 1994, (EECS)
Carnegie-Mellon University, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Michael W. Judy, Ph.D. 1994, (EECS)
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Mass.

Clark T.-C. Nguyen, Ph.D. 1994, (EECS)
University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of EECS

Michael B. Cohn, Ph.D. 1997, (EECS) Deceased.

Christopher G. Keller, Ph.D. 1998 (Materials Science and Engineering)
Centricity Vision, Fremont, California

Willam A. Clark, Ph.D. 1998, (EECS)
Analog Devices, Wilmington, Mass.

Lilac Muller, Ph.D. 2000 (Mechanical Engineering, joint with Prof. Albert P. Pisano)
Lilac Muller Consulting, Woodinville, Washington

Andrea E. Franke, Ph.D. 2000 (EECS, joint with Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu) Deceased.

Dubravka Bilić, Ph.D. 2001 (EECS)
Tempe, Arizona.

John M. Heck, Ph.D. 2001 (Applied Science & Tech., joint with Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu)
Intel Corp., Berkeley, California

Uthara Srinivasan, Ph.D. 2001 (Chemical Engineering) Deceased.

Ashwin A. Seshia, Ph.D. 2002, (EECS)
IIT Bombay, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Moorthi Palaniapan, Ph.D. 2002, (EECS)
Singapore

Elliot E. Hui, Ph.D. 2002, (EECS)
University of California, Irvine, Dept. of Bioengineering

Michel M. Maharbiz, Ph.D. 2003 (EECS, joint with Prof. Jay D. Keasling, Chemical Eng.)
Co-CEO, iota Biosciences, Berkeley, Calif. and Adjunct Prof., Dept. of EECS, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Karen C. Lemay (Scott), Ph.D. 2003, (EECS)
Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon

Sunil A. Bhave, Ph.D. 2004, (EECS)
DARPA MTO, on leave from Purdue University, Dept. of ECE, West Lafayette, Indiana

Di Gao, Ph.D. 2004 (Chemical Engineering, joint with Prof. Roya Maboudian)
University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering

Brian L. Bircumshaw, Ph.D. 2005 (Mechanical Engineering, joint with Prof. Albert P. Pisano)
eXo Imaging, Redwood City, California

Jingchun Zhang, Ph.D. 2006, (Chemical Engineering, joint with Prof. Roya Maboudian)
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, California

Carrie W. Low, Ph.D. 2006, (EECS, joint with Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu)
TDK Invensense, Inc., San Jose, California

Frank J. Zendejas, Ph.D. 2007, (EECS)
Fresno City College, Fresno, California

Christopher S. Roper, Ph.D. 2007, (Chemical Engineering, joint with Prof. Roya Maboudian)
HRL Laboratories, Malibu, California

Noel Arellano, Ph.D. 2008, (EECS, joint with Prof. Roya Maboudian)
IBM Almaden Research Laboratory, San Jose, California

Rishi Kant, Ph.D. 2009, (Electrical Engineering)
Authentic8, Redwood City, California

Maryam Ziaei, Ph.D. 2009, (Electrical Engineering)
ARPA-H, San Francisco, California

Katherine (Tsai) Candler, Ph.D. 2010, (Electrical Engineering)
La Cañada, California

Nathan Klejwa, Ph.D. 2010, (Electrical Engineering)
Avept, El Dorado Hills, California

Anthony F. Flannery, Jr., Ph.D. 2011 (Electrical Eng., co-advised with Prof. Gregory Kovacs)
Illumina, Inc, San Diego, California

J. Raja Jain, Ph.D. 2011, (Electrical Engineering)
Stablecoin at Coinbase

Roozbeh Parsa, Ph.D. 2011, (Electrical Engineering)
Rockley Photonics, Inc., San Jose, California

Jeng-Wen Peter Chen, Ph.D. 2012, (Electrical Engineering)
Apple, Cupertino, California

Robert Hennessey, Ph.D. 2012, (Electrical Engineering)
TDK InvenSense, Inc., San Jose, California

Justin P. Snapp, Ph.D. 2012, (Electrical Engineering, co-advised with Prof. Thomas H. Lee)
Taraxa, Mt. View, California

W. Scott Lee, Ph.D. 2013, (Electrical Engineering)
Apple, Cupertino, California

Jae H. Lee, Ph.D. 2013, (Electrical Engineering)
Stratio Technology, Palo Alto, California

Shane Crippen, Ph.D. 2013, (Electrical Engineering)
Patent Attorney, Wilson Sonsini, Palo Alto, California

Sharon Chou, Ph.D. 2014, (Electrical Engineering)
The Matic, Nashville, Tennessee

Uraib Aboudi, Ph.D. 2014, (Electrical Engineering)
Consultant, flexible electronics for healthcare, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sam Emaminejad, Ph.D. 2014
(Electrical Engineering, co-advised with Profs. Robert Dutton and Ronald Davis)
University of California, Los Angeles, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Chu-En Chang, Ph.D. 2015
(Electrical Engineering, co-advised with Prof. Aaron Roodman, Physics/SLAC)
Google Research, Mt. View, California

Kimberly L. Harrison, Ph.D. 2015, (Mechanical Engineering)
AM Fitzgerald & Associates, Burlingame, California

Hongyuan Yuan Ph.D. 2016, (Physics, co-advised by Profs. Piero Pianetta and Z.-X. Shen)
NIO Research Center, Beijing, China

Jose' Padovani Ph.D. 2016, (Electrical Engineering, co-advised by Prof. Stefanie S. Jeffrey, M.D.)
Medtronic, Sunnyvale, California

Charmaine Chia, Ph.D. 2019 (Electrical Engineering, co-advised by Prof. Stefanie S. Jeffrey, M.D.)
A*STAR Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Singapore

Lina Qiu, Ph.D. 2020 (Electrical Engineering, co-advised by Prof. Olivier Gevaert, Dept. of Biomedical Data Science, School of Medicine
Remesh.ai

Former High School Interns

Nick Bousse, B.S. ME, UC Santa Barbara; Ph.D. ME, Stanford University; SiTime, Santa Clara, California

James Ma, B.S. CS, Yale University; LinkedIn, Sunnyvale, California

Dhruv Lal, B.S. ME, Purdue Univesity, West Lafayette, Indiana; Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon.

Daniel Zdeblick, B.S. ECE, Rice University, Ph.D. student, Neurosciences, Univ. of Washington

Hannah Lin, B.S. ME, University of California, Los Angeles; Google; Ph.D. student, Univ. of Washington

Kevin Wang, B.S. CIS, Cornell University, M.S. student CIS, University of Pennsylvania

Grace Zdeblick, B.A. Math and Physics, Yale University; Ph.D. student, Math, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Aditya Ganapathi, B.S., M.S., EECS/MET, University of California, Berkeley; Grabango, Inc., Berkeley, Calif.

Arthi Iyer, B.S., Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Ashwin Adulla, B.E., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Rivos, Inc., Mt. View, Calif.

William Wenstrand (Bellarmine College Prep), ME major, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington

Andrew Herbert, (Bellarmine College Prep), CS major, University of Utah, founder, Quantonium