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Eric Pop
(epop at stanford dot edu) is the Pease-Ye Professor of Electrical Engineering (EE) and, by courtesy, of Applied Physics and Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford and SLAC, where he also co-leads the SystemX Alliance. Before Stanford, he spent several years on the faculty of UIUC, and in industry at Intel and IBM. His research interests include nanoelectronics, data storage, and energy. He received his PhD in EE from Stanford (2005) and three degrees from MIT (MEng and BS in EE, BS in Physics). His honors include the Intel Outstanding Researcher Award, the PECASE from the White House (the highest honor given by the US government to early-career scientists & engineers), Young Investigator Awards from the Navy, Air Force, NSF CAREER, DARPA, and several best-paper awards with his students. He is an APS and IEEE Fellow, a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, he was General Chair of the IEEE DRC and NVMTS, and has also served on program committees of IEDM, VLSI, MRS, and APS conferences. In his spare time he tries to avoid injuries while snowboarding and in a past life he was a DJ at KZSU 90.1 FM. [CV]
Dr. Tara Peña
(tara dot pena at stanford dot edu)Tara received her Ph.D. in (2023) and M.S. (2019) in ECE from Univ. Rochester, supported by an NSF Fellowship, and her B.S. (2017) in Physics from Adelphi Univ. She is now a postdoc at Stanford examining strain-engineered heterostructures and devices based on 2D and other materials. She is a recipient of the NSF MPS-Ascend Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Dr. Anh Tuan Hoang
(athoang at stanford dot edu)Anh Tuan received his Ph.D. (2022) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University and his M.S. (2016) in Bionano Engineering from Hanyang University, supported by the BK21+ Fellowship. He is now a postdoc at Stanford focusing on the wafer-scale synthesis & characterization of 2D semiconductors. He is co-advised with Prof. Andrew Mannix.
Dr. Zherui Han
(zrhan at stanford dot edu)Zherui Han received his Ph.D. (2024) in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, and B.S. (2019) in Energy and Power Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. He is a recipient of Purdue's Ross Fellowship and Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship. He is now a postdoc at Stanford developing multi-scale simulation methods for thermal transport in 2D systems and devices.
Dr. Hao-Yu Lan
(hylan at stanford dot edu)Hao-Yu Lan earned his Ph.D. (2025) in ECE from Purdue, M.S. (2017) in Photonics and Optoelectronics from National Taiwan Univ., and B.S. (2015) in Photonics from National Cheng Kung Univ. He received the IBM PhD Fellowship (2025). He worked as an R&D engineer at TSMC in EUV Lithography (2017-18) and as a research associate at Academia Sinica (2018-20) studying light–matter interactions in 2D semiconductors. He is now a postdoc at Stanford, focusing on nanoelectronic devices using 2D materials and ferroelectrics.
Jerry Yang
(jay632 at stanford dot edu)Jerry received his B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from UT Austin (2020) and is now pursuing his Ph.D. in EE and M.A. in Education at Stanford. His research focuses on strain in novel materials and their applications in flexible electronics, computing, and sensing. In addition, he is interested in diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in engineering education. He is a recipient of the ARCS and NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.
Haotian Su
(haotian_su at stanford dot edu)Haotian received his B.S. in EE from National University of Singapore (2022) and is now pursuing his M.S. and Ph.D. at Stanford. His research focuses on developing novel materials and thin films for energy-efficient memories and computing, including magnetic random-access memory (MRAM), oxide transistors, and other nanoscale devices. He is co-advised by Prof. Shan X. Wang.
Yuan-Mau (Leo) Lee
(ymlee616 at stanford dot edu)Yuan-Mau (Leo) received his B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering from National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan (2022) and is now pursuing his M.S. and Ph.D. in MSE at Stanford. His current research focuses on nanofabrication and gate stack topics related to oxide and 2D semiconductors, and their applications.
Sydney Fultz-Waters
(sfultzwa at stanford dot edu)Sydney received her B.S. in Materials Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (2023) and is now pursuing her M.S. and Ph.D. in MSE at Stanford. Her current research focuses on developing low-dimensional materials for electronic applications, including magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) and high-frequency circuit components. She is co-advised by Prof. Shan X. Wang.
Frederick Nitta
(fnitta at stanford dot edu)Frederick received his B.S. with EE and Chemistry from Stanford (2024), alongside a co-term in MSE (2024) at Stanford. He completed his EE honors thesis with us and Prof. K. Saraswat on the efficiency limits of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) solar cells, receiving the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. He is now pursuing his Ph.D. in EE, on 3R-phase TMDs and their bulk photovoltaic effect, and on the physics and applications of transition metal oxides. He is co-advised by Prof. Andrew Mannix.
Young Suh Song
(youngsuh at stanford dot edu)Young Suh received his M.S. (2024) and B.S. (2018) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University. Before Stanford, he was a lecturer and assistant professor at the Korea Military Academy. He is now pursuing his Ph.D. in EE at Stanford, studying thermal management, reliability, and performance in next-generation semiconductor devices, including 2D and oxide transistors. He is a recipient of the 2025 Knight-Hennesy Scholarship.
Heather Phillips
(healoha at stanford dot edu)Heather received her B.Phil. in Engineering Physics from the University of Pittsburgh (2025) and is now pursuing her Ph.D. in EE at Stanford. Her research currently focuses on the nanofabrication and characterization of 2D semiconductor devices, with an emphasis on metal-semiconductor and dielectric-semiconductor interfaces and device reliability. She is a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Danny Han
(dhan1 at stanford dot edu)Danny received his B.E. in Electrical Engineering, B.A. in Physics, and M.E. in Scientific Computing from the University of Pennsylvania (2025) and is now pursuing his Ph.D. in EE at Stanford. His current research focuses on topological semimetals and ferroelectric materials. He is a recipient of the Stanford Graduate Fellowship (SGF).
Miti Shah
(mitis at stanford dot edu)Miti received her B.S. in EE and Engineering Physics from Univ. Michigan (2025), where she published the book Atlas of Fourier Transforms. She is now pursuing her M.S./Ph.D. in EE at Stanford, using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) to characterize properties of semiconductor devices such as strain. She holds the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Stanford Graduate Fellowship (SGF), and she is co-advised by Prof. Colin Ophus.
Past Members (Alumni)
| Post-Docs, PhD, and MS Students: Prof. Anton E.O. Persson, post-doc (2023-25) Dr. Koosha Nassiri Nazif, post-doc (2022-24) Prof. Alwin Daus, post-doc (2019-21) Dr. Sam Vaziri, post-doc (2017-20) Prof. Kevin Brenner, post-doc (2018-19) Prof. Aditya Sood, post-doc (2018) Prof. Miguel Muñoz Rojo, post-doc (2016-18) Prof. Eilam Yalon, post-doc (2015-18) Dr. Michal J. Mleczko, post-doc (2017) Prof. Feng Xiong, post-doc (2013-16) Dr. Zuanyi Li, post-doc (2014-15) Dr. Yong Cheol Shin, post-doc (2015-16) Dr. Ashkan Behnam, post-doc (2010-13) Dr. Myung-Ho Bae, post-doc (2009-11) 40. Dr. Maritha Wang, Ph.D. MSE (2026) 39. Dr. Lauren Hoang, Ph.D. EE (2026) 38. Dr. Robert Bennett, Ph.D. EE (2026) 37. Dr. Xiangjin Wu, Ph.D. EE (2025) 36. Dr. Crystal Nattoo, Ph.D. EE (2025) 35. Dr. Mahnaz Islam, Ph.D. EE (2025) 34. Dr. Katie Neilson, Ph.D. EE (2025) 33. Dr. Sumaiya Wahid, Ph.D. EE (2024) 32. Dr. Jung-Soo Ko, Ph.D. EE (2024) 31. Dr. Çağıl Köroğlu, Ph.D. EE (2024) 30. Dr. Marc Jaikissoon, Ph.D. EE (2023) 29. Prof. Asir I. Khan, Ph.D. EE (2023) 28. Dr. Michelle E. Chen, Ph.D. MSE (2023) 27. Dr. Connor Bailey, Ph.D. EE (2023) 26. Dr. Victoria Chen, Ph.D. EE (2022) 25. Dr. Kirstin Schauble, Ph.D. EE (2022) 24. Dr. Alex Gabourie, Ph.D. EE (2021) 23. Dr. Connor McClellan, Ph.D. EE (2021) 22. Dr. Stephanie Bohaichuk, Ph.D. EE (2020) 21. Dr. Isha Datye, Ph.D. EE (2020) 20. Dr. Runjie (Lily) Xu, Ph.D. EE (2020) 19. Dr. Sanchit Deshmukh, Ph.D. EE (2020) 18. Dr. Chris Neumann, Ph.D. EE (2019) 17. Dr. Saurabh Suryavanshi, Ph.D. EE (2018) 16. Dr. Kirby Smithe, Ph.D. EE (2018) 15. Dr. Ning Wang, Ph.D. EE (2018) 14. Dr. Feifei Lian, Ph.D. EE (2018) 13. Dr. Chris English, Ph.D. EE (2017) 12. Dr. Michal Mleczko, Ph.D. EE (2016) 11. Dr. Zuanyi Li, Ph.D. Physics (2015) 10. Prof. Sharnali Islam, Ph.D. ECE (2015) 9. Dr. Enrique Carrion, Ph.D. ECE (2015) 8. Dr. Andrey Serov, Ph.D. ECE (2014) 7. Dr. Kyle Grosse, Ph.D. MechSE (2014) 6. Dr. Vincent Dorgan, Ph.D. ECE (2014) 5. Prof. Feng Xiong, Ph.D. ECE (2014) 4. Dr. Joshua Wood, Ph.D. ECE (2013) 3. Prof. David Estrada, Ph.D. ECE (2013) 2. Dr. Albert Liao, Ph.D. ECE (2012) 1. Dr. Zhun-Yong Ong, Ph.D. Physics (2011) Ryan Grady, M.S., EE (2019) Sungduk Hong, M.S., ECE (2013) Austin S. Lyons, M.S. Thesis, ECE (2011) Balaji Ramasubramanian, M.S. Thesis, ECE (2010) |
Undergraduate Researchers: (thesis recipients underlined) Brendan Poon (2025-) Harmon Gault (2024-) Frederick Nitta (2022-24) Aditya Bora (2023-24) Felix Zhang (2023) Vivian Auduong (2022) Connor Cremers (2022) Neel Roy (2021-22) Kamila Thompson (2021) Noor Fakih (2020) Maisy Lam (2020) Sidra Nadeem (2020) Paul Bates Walter (2019) Linsen Li (2018) Andrew Yu (2017) Bozo Vareskic (2017) Megan Yamoah (2016) Stephone Christian (2016) Anika Manzo (2016) Aria Tedjarati (2016) Erin Antono (2015-16) Peter Satterthwaite (2015) Priyanka Rao (2015) Justin Doong (2014-15) Job Nalyanya (2014) Tim Anderson (2014) Yeshar Hadi (2014) Maryann Tung (2013) Muneeb Ahmed (2013) Juan-Pablo Llinas (2012-13) Jayan Hewaparakrama (2012-13) Christopher Neumann (2012) Yuan Dai (2012) Akshay Malik (2011-12) Alicia Hoag (2011-12) Xuanyu Zhong (2012) Sumit Dutta (2011) Gautam Shine (2011) Eric Kwan (2011) Chun-Ming Ching (2011) Jose Matamoros (2011) Jen-Chieh Liu (2011) Dominic Ortigara (2010) Yang Zhao (2009) Shreya Prakash (2009) Ryan Pecora (2009) Aidee San Miguel (2009) I-Ru (Tim) Chen (2008) Jerry Lee (2008) William Wahby (2007) Jaime Valle (2007) |
Visitors
Inyeal Lee, Samsung (2026)Kyungwhan Yang, Samsung (2025)
Minkyung Bae, Samsung (2024)
Sarallah Hamtaei, IMEC (2024)
Eros Reato, RWTH Aachen Univ. (2023)
Prof. Matthew Gilbert, Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2018)
Luis Ruelas, Downtown College Prep, Alum Rock (2017)
Prof. Xinran Wang, Nanjing University (2017)
Prof. Akiko Ueda, University of Tsukuba (2017)
Takaaki Uno, JSR Corp. Japan (2015-17)
Henry Fung, Irvington High School, Fremont (2016)
Prof. Davide Donadio, Max Planck (now UC Davis) (2015)
Massimiliano Bianchi, Politecnico di Milano Como (2012)
Andrea Cappelli, Univ. of Modena (2012)
Marina Timmermans, Aalto University (2011)
Ilaria Imperiale, Univ. of Bologna (2011)
Prof. Daniele Ielmini, Politecnico di Milano (2010)
Prof. Junichiro Shiomi, Univ. of Tokyo (2009)
Thierry Tsafack, Univ. of Bologna (2009-10)
updated May 2026