Research Associate and Post-Doctoral Scholar

Dr. Farzad Houshmand

Dr. Farzad Houshmand

Farzad received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2012. His research interests include the area of microscale heat transfer and flow visualization with focus on two-phase flows. He joined Stanford in 2013, and is currently working on developing high-performance micro heat exchangers for thermal management of extreme heat flux conditions.

Ramez Cheaito

Ramez Cheaito

Ramez received his B.S in Physics from the Faculty of Sciences in the Lebanese University in 2008. He then worked for two years as a research assistant in Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Ramez received his PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia in August, 2015. […]

Prof. Damena Agonafer

Prof. Damena Agonafer

Damena joined the faculty at Washingon University in St. Louis in 2016. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. His research interest include the areas of Nanofluidics and Nanoscale Interfacial Transport Phenomena, which have several applications including chemical sensing and two-phase cooling technology. Damena […]

Chi Zhang

Dr. Chi Zhang

Chi received her B.S. with honors in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on MEMS from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2013, and received her Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford in 2019. Her current research interests include the development and characterization of microporous structures for heat exchange. Chi is the recipient of Stanford School of […]

Tiwei Wei

Prof. Tiwei Wei

Tiwei Wei is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. He was the postdoc research scholar at NanoHeat group at Stanford University between 2020 and 2022. He received his Ph.D. degree at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (imec) and KU Leuven, Belgium in 2020. He joined imec in 2015, starting his Ph.D. research […]