Kenneth Goodson is Professor and Vice Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. His group studies thermal phenomena in electronic nanostructures, energy conversion devices, and microfluidic heat exchangers, with a focus both on fundamental heat transfer physics and on contemporary industrial problems. His 30 Ph.D. alumni include Professors at MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UIUC, U. Michigan, and senior staff at Intel, AMD, Tesla, Freescale, and Exxon-Mobile. Goodson (MIT BS/PhD 1989/93) has co-authored 140 archival journal articles, 180 conference papers, 30 US patents, 2 books, and 8 book chapters. Goodson received the Allan Kraus Thermal Management Medal, the Outstanding Reviewer Award from the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, for which he served as an Associate Editor, the IEEE Golden Reviewer Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, and the NSF CAREER Award. He was a JSPS Visiting Professor at The Tokyo Institute of Technology and is Editor-in-Chief of Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering. Other recognition includes keynote lectures at INTERPACK, ITHERM, SEMITHERM, IMECE, and THERMINIC as well as best paper awards at SEMITHERM, SRC TECHCON, and the IEDM. Goodson is a founder and former CTO of Cooligy, which builds microcoolers for computers (including the Apple G5) and was acquired by Emerson in 2005.