PhD Graduates

Prof. Evelyn Wang

Prof. Evelyn Wang

Ph.D. ME 2006. Professor and Department Head, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Wang’s laboratory is among those leading in the development of nanostructures and engineered surfaces for improved heat convection heat transfer. Evelyn’s Stanford thesis was co-advised with Prof. Tom Kenny, Stanford ME Department.

Prof. Dan Fletcher

Prof. Dan Fletcher

Ph.D. ME 2001. Chatterjee Professor, Bioengineering Department, University of California at Berkeley. Dan Fletcher joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 2002 and served as BioEngineering Chair from 2015-2019. His laboratory studies the mechanics and dynamics of cell movements on the purified protein, single cell, and tissue levels. Dan’s former student Ovijit Chaudhuri has recently joined […]

Prof. Jungwan Cho

Prof. Jungwan Cho

Ph.D. ME 2014. Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea. Prof. Cho’s laboratory studies nanoscale thermal transport phenomena in advanced semiconductor thin films and at interfaces using cutting-edge thermal characterization methods, including an ultrafast photothermal method. Areas of interest and applications include device-level electronics cooling, thermal metrology development, and novel energy conversion. […]

Prof. Saniya LeBlanc

Prof. Saniya LeBlanc

Ph.D. ME 2012. Saniya Leblanc joined the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering faculty at George Washington University in 2013. Saniya earned her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with highest honors from Georgia Institute of Technology and studied as a Churchill Scholar at Cambridge before coming to Stanford. Her Stanford thesis work involved the characterization of novel thermoelectric […]

Prof. Eric Pop

Prof. Eric Pop

Ph.D. EE 2005. Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. Eric studies electrical and thermal transport of leading edge nanoscale electronic device. Eric pursued a large variety of nano electrical and thermal transport research as a faculty member at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign before his appointment to the Stanford faculty.

Prof. Amy Marconnet

Prof. Amy Marconnet

PhD ME 2012. Amy joined the Purdue Mechanical Engineering faculty effective August 2013 and is now an Associate Professor with tenure. Amy’s dissertation at Stanford focused on thermal phenomena in nanostructured materials including carbon nanotubes and silicon based nanostructures. She authored a number of high profile papers including our recent contribution to Reviews of Modern […]

Qianying Wu

Qianying Wu

Qianying graduated with her Ph.D. in 2024 and a B.S with honors in Building Science from Tsinghua University in 2018. She studied heat and mass transfer in micro-nano scale and worked on high heat flux cooling with phase change in micro/nanostructures. Qianying was also a TomKat Center Graduate Fellow for Translational Research. Qianying loves sports, […]

Farid Soroush

Farid Soroush

Farid graduated in 2022 with his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering with our group. His research interests included microfluidic cooling systems, functional materials, and novel nanoscale structures. Farid was also the recipient of the Stanford School of Engineering Fellowship. Before Stanford, Farid received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in […]

Chris Perez

Dr. Christopher Perez

Dr. Perez was born and raised Los Angeles, CA, receiving his B.S. with honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2017. He was pursuing his M.S. and Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering and was supported by the Stanford EDGE and DARE fellowships. His research interests lie in stretching the limits of […]

Tanya Liu

Dr. Tanya Liu

Tanya is now a Mechanical Engineer at Google working on optimizing data centers. She received her Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford in 2020 and completed a postdoctoral appointment with the Mauter lab in the Civil & Environmental Engineering department afterwards. In 2014, she completed a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of […]