PhD Graduates

Consulting Prof. Mehdi Asheghi

Consulting Prof. Mehdi Asheghi

Ph.D. ME 1999. Consulting Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University. Prof. Asheghi teaches and performs research as a member of the consulting faculty in the thermosciences group. He is distinguished by breakthrough measurements of phonon transport in silicon layers and thermal phenomena in nano memory devices. His service to the heat transfer community includes […]

Prof. Eon Soo Lee

Prof. Eon Soo Lee

Ph.D. ME 2007 (Eon Soo’s primary advisor was Prof. John Eaton, Stanford Mechanical Engineering). Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology. Eon Soo spent four years as a Member of the Technical Staff with Samsung Electro Mechanics. His thesis work at Stanford involved flow regime and pressure drop characterization for […]

Prof. Jaeho Lee

Prof. Jaeho Lee

Ph.D. ME 2012. Jaeho’s thesis focused on developing electrothermal metrology for thin film materials and understanding thermal and thermoelectric phenomena in nanoelectronic devices such as phase change memory. He worked as a postdoc in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Peidong Yang Group from 2012 to 2015. He is now a professor in Mechanical and Aerospace […]

Prof. Sarah Parikh

Prof. Sarah Parikh

Ph.D. ME 2011. Assistant Professor, Physical Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Division, Engineering and Physics Departments, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA. Sarah’s Ph.D. research was co-advised by Professor Sheri Sheppard, Stanford Mechanical Engineering, and focused on the methodologies for engineering learning and involved much interaction with our undergraduate heat transfer instruction. At Foothill she is […]

Prof. Katsuo Kurabayashi

Prof. Katsuo Kurabayashi

Ph.D. MSE 1998, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Michigan. Professor Kurabayashi’s laboratory research includes: Microelectromechanical systems; microscale thermal engineering and design; heat transfer in micro/nano structures; semiconductor processing for micromechanical structure fabrication; microfluidic device; sensors and actuators.

Prof. William P. King

Prof. William P. King

Ph.D. ME 2002, Ralph A. Andersen Endowed Chair, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor King’s nanoengineering Laboratory works across the technical areas of nanotechnology, materials, and manufacturing.

Prof. Y. Sungtaek Ju

Prof. Y. Sungtaek Ju

Ph.D. ME 1999. Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California at Los Angeles. Sungtaek works on the thermal characterization and engineering of micro- and nanoscale devices for information processing, storage, and communication applications. His thesis work on silicon conduction physics here at Stanford has received very extensive recognition over the years.

Prof. Ankur Jain

Prof. Ankur Jain

Ph.D. ME 2006. Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas, Arlington, Texas. Prof. Jain’s research focusses on microscale heat transfer, microscale energy conversion, and microfluidics. He is interested in controlling and manipulating biological microsystems such as cells, DNA, etc.

Prof. Xuejiao Jack Hu

Prof. Xuejiao “Jack” Hu

Ph.D. ME 2005. Professor, School of Power and Mechanical Engineering, Wuhan University. Prof. Hu joined Wuhan after a productive period as a staff engineer with Intel ATD and is now working on advanced thermal management technologies including nanostructured materials.

Prof. Sanjiv Sinha

Prof. Sanjiv Sinha

Ph.D. ME 2005. Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Sinha’s group studies phonon dynamics in nanostructures as well as heat transport in novel interfacial systems involving organic layers. Areas of interest and applications include thermal energy storage, transfer printing, and percolation-based thermal conduction.