Kenneth E. Goodson

Kenneth E. Goodson is Professor and Vice Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. His research 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. Goodson’s 34 Ph.D. alumni include Professors at MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA, The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, The University of Michigan, and senior staff at Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, IBM, and Exxon-Mobile. Goodson (BS 1989, PhD 1993) has co-authored 150 archival journal articles, 210 refereed conference papers, 32 US patents, 2 books, and 8 book chapters. He has been recognized by keynote lectures at INTERPACK, ITHERM, THERMINIC, MNHMTand the IMECE, as well as a plenary tutorial and best paper award at SEMITHERM. He is a former Associate Editor with the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, from which he also received the Outstanding Reviewer Award. Other recognition includes 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. 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.