PhD Graduates

PhD ME 2012. Now with Oracle’s Thermal Managment team. Yuan’s PhD thesis involved thermal and mechanical characterization of aligned carbon nanotube films for application as thermal interfaces.

Ph.D. ME 2007, Creare Engineering Research and Development. David’s thesis work explored pressure waves invoked during two-phase convective boiling in microchannels, as well as visualization methodologies for liquid and vapor phase fractions.

Ph.D. ME 2009, Senior Research Engineer, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, Texas. Chen’s thesis dealt with microchannel condensation phenomena and involved both simulations and experiments. At ExxonMobile he is studying the conversion of solid oil shale thousands of feet underground into recoverable oil and gas using coupled electrical-thermal-hydro-mechanical transport simulations.

Marc is now a Thermal Management R&D Engineer at Analog Devices. Marc Dunham received his B.S. in Physics and B.M.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in 2010. He completed his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering also at the University of Minnesota in 2012, with thesis research in Concentrated Solar Power […]

Ph.D. 2010, Advanced Thermal Laboratory, Systems and Technology Group, IBM Corporation. Milnes is making a big splash at big blue, working at the leading edge of server and mainframe cooling with one of the very best teams in the industry.

Ph.D. ME 2008. Now with Intel Corporation, Advanced Equipment Engineering Group. Saurabh’s thesis work on thermoelastic dissipation in microcantilevers and resonators was co-advised with Professor Tom Kenny, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford. At Intel, Saurabh is working on the design and implementation of specialized equipment for production in Intel Mask Operations from scientific/engineering to complete systems.

PhD ME 2012. Senior Process Engineer, Intel Corporation, Assembly Test and Technology Division, Chandler, Arizona. Elah’s thesis included measurements of thermal properties of materials used in phase change memory, high electron mobility transistors, and extreme UV mirrors, using nanosecond and picosecond thermoreflectance. Elah is currently working with the Intel Corporation in Chandler, AZ, developing novel […]

Michael is now a Research Scientist at NG Next, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. Michael received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. He completed his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 2012 and is continuing at Stanford toward a Ph.D. Michael’s thesis work centered around the […]

Yoonjin Won is an Assistant Professor with the Mechanical Engineering Department at UC Irvine. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.B.A (2005) from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, and completed her M.S. (2007) and Ph.D. (2011) in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Goodson studying […]

Woosung Park received his B.S. with honor in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University (2010). He received his M.S. and Ph.D in 2017. His research interests lie in understanding nanoscale thermal phenomena and characterizing thermal properties of novel materials. He was supported by Korean Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning. Currently, Woosung is an assistant professor […]