Ph.D. Graduates: Alumni
Dr. Chris Brittain Cooper
Years in group: 2019 - 2023
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
MPhil Institution & Major: University of Cambridge, UK; Chemical Engineering (Churchill Scholar)
Undergraduate School: NC State University
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering, EconomicsProject: Self-Aligning Polymer
Hobbies: Hiking, Swimming, Tennis, Reading
Current: Postdoc, NIST
Dr. Rachel Zhuojun Huang
Years in group: 2019 - 2023
Home Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Undergraduate School: UC Berkeley, CA
Undergraduate Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Project: Polymer battery materials
Hobbies: Ukulele, comedy
Current: Postdoc, UT Austin, Freeman Group
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Dr. Huaxin Gong
Years in group: 2019 - 2023
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Zhejiang University, China
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Carbon Flower
Hobbies: League of Legends, Movie, Music, Anime, Hiking
Current: Senior Cell Design Engineer at Rivian
Dr. Yu Zheng
Years in group: 2018 - 2022
Home Department: Chemistry
Undergraduate School: Nankai University, China
Undergraduate Major: Chemistry
Project: Stretchable Polymer Semiconductors
Hobbies: Table Tennis, Swimming, Traveling
Current: Postdoc. in MIT Chemical Engineering department, Prof. Bradley Olsen group
Dr. Zhiao Yu
Years in group: 2018 - 2022
Home Department: Chemistry
Undergraduate School: Peking University, China
Undergraduate Major: Materials Chemistry
Project: Stretchable Semiconductors, Lithium Battery Materials
Hobbies: Basketball, Photography
Current: Co-founder and CTO at Feon Energy, Inc. (LinkedIn)
Dr. Shayla Nikzad
Years in group: 2018 - 2022
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of California, Davis
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Processing Organic Semiconductor Thin Films
Email: snikzad at stanford.edu
Currently: Postdoc, Dept. of Health Technology in Danish Technical University
Dr. David Koshy
Years in group: 2018 - 2021
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: UC Berkeley, CA
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Carbon-based materials for electrocatalysis (co-advised with Prof. Jaramillo)
Currently: Postdoc. Interface Science Department of the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, Germany.
Dr. Gan Chen
Years in group: 2017 - 2022
Home Department: Material Science and Engineering
Undergraduate School: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Undergraduate Major: Chemistry
Hobbies: Basketball, Billiards, Badminton, Table Tennis, Card Games
Currently: Postdoc, UC Berkeley.
Dr. Theo Gao
Years in group: 2017 - 2021
Home Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Undergraduate School: Northwestern University, IL
Undergraduate Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Project: Materials and Devices for Printed Electronics
Hobbies: Video Games, Anime, Swimming, Skiing, German and Russian Literature
Currently: Senior Grant and Technical Writer at Twelve
Dr. Cheli Ruth (Arussy)
Years in group: 2017 - 2021
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Hobbies: Powerlifting, Traveling, Photography, Charity runs
Currently: Staff Scientist, BD Bioscience
Dr. Jiechen Wang
Years in group: 2017-2021
Home Department: Material Science and Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
Undergraduate Major: Material Science and Engineering
Project: Stretchable Transistors Array
Hobbies: Movies, Science Fictions
Currently: Staff Engineer, Lam Research
Dr. David Mackanic
Years in group: 2016-2020
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Virginia Tech, VA
Undergraduate Major: Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry
Hobbies: Running, Skiing, Mountain Biking
Currently: Founder, Anthro Energy. Link.
Dr. Yuchi Tsao
Years in group: 2016-2020
Home Department: Chemistry
Undergraduate School: National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Undergraduate Major: Chemistry
Hobbies: Volleyball, Movie
Currently: Staff Engineer, Google
Dr. Jaewan Mun
Years in group: 2016-2020
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Seoul National University, South Korea
Undergraduate Major: Chemical & Biological Engineering
Hobbies: Tennis, Badminton
Currently: Postdoc, UC Berkeley.
Dr. Vivian Rachel Feig
Years in group: 2016-2020
Home Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Undergraduate School: Columbia University, NY
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Self-Healing Materials
Hobbies: Music, Traveling, Hiking
Currently: Faculty, Stanford University, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Previous: Postdoc, with Prof Bob Langer and Prof Giovanni Traverso, MIT.
Dr. Jooyeun Ham
Years in group: 2014-2020
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Undergraduate School: KAIST, S. Korea
Undergraduate Major: Mechanical Engineering
Project: Electronic-Skin
Hobbies: Playing/listening to music, Watching movie, Cooking, Traveling, Skiing, Swimming
Currently: Research Engineer, Tesla
Dr. Yuxin Liu
Years in group: 2015-2019
Home Department: Bioengineering
Undergraduate School: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Undergraduate Major: Bioengineering
Project: Multi-electrode Array and Electronic Skin
Hobbies: Windsurfing, Climbing, Biking, Traveling
Currently: Faculty, National University of Singapore
Dr. Shucheng Chen
Years in group: 2015-2019
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: National University of Singapore
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Novel carbon for H2O2 production
Hobbies: basketball, hiking, traveling
Currently: Founder, Tanovus. Link.
Dr. Allison Claire Hinckley
Years in group: 2013-2018
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
MPhil Institution & Major: University of Cambridge, UK; Micro- and Nanotechnology Enterprise
Undergraduate School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Organic Thermoelectrics
Hobbies: Travel, rowing, reading, cooking
Currently: Associate, Venture capital and private equity firm
Dr. Franklin L. Lee
Years in group: 2014-2018
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Cornell University, NY
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Development of modeling tools to predict organic solar cell morphology
Hobbies: Drawing, video games, table tennis, creative writing
Currently: Staff Engineer, Corning
Dr. Kevin Gu
Years in group: 2013-2018
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: California Institute of Technology, CA
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Organic photovoltaic materials by design
Hobbies: Tennis, rock climbing, racquetball, badminton
Currently: Staff Engineer, Lam Research
Dr. Nathan Ging-Ji Wang
Years in group: 2013-2018
Home Department: Chemistry
Undergraduate School: Wesleyan University, CT
Undergraduate Major: Chemistry
Project: Stretchable Polymer Semiconductor
Hobbies: Basketball, biking, watching movies
Currently: Staff Scientist, Carbon
Dr. Leo Shaw
Years in group: 2012-2018
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Princeton University, NJ
Project: Solution Shearing for Organic Semiconductor Thin Films
Hobbies: Food, reading, travel, eating
Currently: Staff Engineer, Google
Dr. Yeongin Kim
Years in group: 2011-2018
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Korea University, S. Korea
Undergraduate Major: Electrical Engineering
Project: Thin film transistors and circuits
Hobbies: Tennis, jogging
Currently: Faculty, University of Cincinnati
Dr. Jeff Lopez
Years in group: 2012-2017
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Self-Healing Materials and Lithium Polymer Batteries
Currently: Faculty, Dept of Chemical & Biologial Engineering, Northwestern University, IL.
Prior: Postdoc, with Prof Shao Horn Yang, MIT
Dr. Ariane Tom
Years in group: 2012-2017
Home Department: Bioengineering
Undergraduate School: Stanford University, 2007-2011
Undergraduate Major: Materials Science & Engineering
Project: Organic Bioelectronics for Neural Systems
Hobbies: Birdwatching, Equestrian, Tennis, Swimming
Currently: Associate, Venture capital and private equity firm
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Ms. Celine S.Y. Liong
Years in group: 2015-2016
Home Department: Bioengineering
Undergraduate School: University of California, San Diego, CA
Undergraduate Major: NanoEngineering
Project: Biosensors
Hobbies: rock climbing, hiking, baking, cooking, reading
Currently: Re-enrolled as a Graduate student in Prof Eric Appel lab, Stanford
Prior: Celine has joined Verily Life Sciences after obtaining her Master's degree
Dr. Alex Chortos
Years in group: 2011-2016
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of Waterloo, Canada
Undergraduate Major: Nanotechnology Engineering
Project: Materials and devices for electronic skin
Currently: Facuty, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University.
Prior: Postdoc, with Prof. Jennifer Lewis, Harvard University
Dr. John To
Years in group: 2011-2016
PhD institution and major: Stanford University; Chemical Engineering
Adviser: Prof. Zhenan Bao, Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of California, Berkeley, CA
Current Dept: Chemical Engineering
Current Project: Mesoporous carbon for CO2 capture
Currently: Staff Engineer, Neuralink.
Amanda Nguyen
Years group: 2013-2016
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Clemson University, SC
Undergraduate Major: Bioelectrical Engineering
Project: Jugular Venous Pressure Sensor
Dr. Tae Hoon Lee
Years in group: 2007-2015
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate School: KAIST (Daejeon, Korea), B.S., 2003
Undergraduate Major: Electrical Engineering
Project: Solution Processed Organic Transistors
Interests: basketball, tennis, badminton
Currently: Faculty, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, S. Korea.
Dr. Benjamin Naab
Years in group: 2010-2015
Undergrad: Montana State University, Chemistry
Current Dept: Chemical Engineering
Current Project: Design, syntheses and applications of air-stable, solution-processable n-type molecular dopants for organic semiconductors
Interests: I enjoy skiing/snowboarding, hiking, biking, golfng, playing racquetball, listening to music or reading.
Currently: Scientist, Dow Chemical
Dr. Huiliang (Evan) Wang
Years in group: 2010-2014
Undergrad: Oxford University, United Kingdom
Home Dept: Materials Science and Engineering
Project: Understanding dispersion of carbon nanotubes by
polymers, with applications in transistors and supercapacitors
Other interests: tennis, hiking, swimming
Currently: Faculty, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, U of Texas, Austin.
Prior: Postdoc, Prof. Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University
Dr. Debora Lin
Years in Group: 2008-2014
Undergrad: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Chemical Engineering
Home Dept: Chemical Engineering
Current Project: Developing large area coating methods for carbon nanotubes with controlled alignment, density, and chirality with applications in transparent electrodes and sensors.
Currently: Vir Biotechnology; Associate Director of Process Development
Previous: AppVie, Abbott Spinoff
Dr. Steve Park
Years in Group: 2008-2014
Home Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Undergraduate Major: Materials Science and Engineering, Physics
Project: Dip-Pen Nanolithography, Carbon-Nanotube Electronics, Organic Field Effect Transistors
Currently: Faculty, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, KAIST, Korea
Dr. Mallory Hammock
Years in Group: 2009-2014
Undergrad: Northwestern University, Chemical Engineering
Current Dept: Chemical Engineering
Current Project: Developing organic field effect transistor-based sensors for the detection of nucleic acids and proteins.
Currently: AbbVie, Abbott Spinoff
Dr. Benjamin Tee Chee Keong
Years in Group: 2008-2013
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Undergraduate Major: Electrical Engineering
Project: Flexible Transducers
Other Info: Loves going outdoors, hiking, artistic mumbo jumbo, playing piano, randomly cliche poems, reading financial bytes, website designing, synthesizing delectable food (however simple), and life
Currently: Faculty, National University of Singapore (NUS); Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellow.
Dr. Michael Vosgueritchian
Years in Group: 2008-2013
Undergrad: UC Berkeley, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Current Dept: Chemical Engineering
Current Project: Understanding the electrical properties of carbon nanotube films on different surfaces. Using Carbon nanotube films for transparent conducting electrodes.
Currently: Apple
Dr. Gaurav Giri
Years in Group: 2008-2013
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: California Institute of Technology, CA
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Organic Semiconductor Crystallization and Solution Shearing
Currently: Faculty, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia
Dr. Ranulfo (Randy) Allen
Years in Group: 2008-2013
Home dept: Chemical Engineering
Undergrad: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Undergrad major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Forming aligned carbon nanotube films and fibers from anisotropic, polymer-wrapped carbon nanotube gels.
Interests: Weightlifting, playing video games, snowboarding
Currently: Co-founder and CTO, Pascalor
Mr. Olasupo (Ade) Johnson
Years in Group: 2007-2012
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Howard University (Washington, DC), 2006
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Organic thin film transistor sensors
Currently: Ade has transferred to the Dept. of Electrical Engineering.
Dr. Jin Jeon
Years in Group: 2007-2012
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Hanyang University (Seoul, Korea); BS 1997, MS 1999
Undergraduate Major: Electrical Engineering
Project: Organic Electronics, Flexible Circuits
Currently: Samsung Electronics, Korea
Dr. Justin Opatkiewicz
Years in Group: 2006-2012
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA), 2006
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Project: Analyzing the origin of the interaction of carbon nanotubes with various organic functional groups confined to surfaces and their application in high performance nanotube network devices
Other Info: Originally from: Chino, CA, USA
Currently: Faculty, Dept. of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego
Dr. Sondra Hellstrom
Years in Stanford: 2006-2012
Home Department: Applied Physics
Undergraduate School: Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD), 2004
Undergraduate Major: Applied Physics
Project: Development and optimization of flexible transparent conducting electrodes
Other Info: N/A
Currently: Research Engineer, Bosch Research and Technology Center
Dr. Soumendra Barman
Years in Stanford: 2005-2012
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Rice University (Houston, TX)
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Solution processing of of carbon nanotubes for electronic and environmental applications.
Currently, Staff Scientist, Applied Materials
Dr Ying Jiang
Years in Stanford: 2006-2011
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), 2005
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Material design and synthesis for organic photovoltaics
Other Info: Hobbies: Erhu, singing
Currently: Staff Scientist, A*STAR, IMRE, Singapore
Dr Yoonyoung Chung
Years in Stanford: 2006-2011
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate School: POSTECH (Pohang, Korea), 2006
Undergraduate Major: Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Project: Small Molecule-Based Organic Transistors and Their Applications
Currently: Faculty, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, S. Korea.
Dr Sangwon Ko
Years in Stanford: 2007-2011
Home Department: Chemistry
Undergraduate/ Graduate School: Ewha Womans University (Seoul, Korea)
Undergraduate Major: Chemistry
Project: Design and synthesis of organic semiconductors for photovoltaics
Currently: Korean National Institutes, Korean Railroad Research Institute.
Dr Randy Stoltenberg
Years in group: 2005-2011
Home Department: Chemistry
Undergraduate School: Brigham Young University (Provo, UT), 2005
Undergraduate Major: Chemistry
Project: Block-copolymer templated surface patterning for high-density single molecule fluorescence
Currently: Senior Chemist, Lockhead Martin Space Systems Company, Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA.
Dr. Jungkyu K. Lee
Years in group: 2005-2011
Home Department: Chemistry
Undergraduate School: Pusan National University (Pusan, Korea), B.S.: 2002; Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, Korea), M.S.: 2004
Undergraduate/ Graduate Major: Chemistry
Project: DNA-assisted single-molecule electronics
Currently: Faculty, Dept. of Chemistry, Kyungpook National University, Bukgu, Daegu, Korea
Dr. Ajay Virkar
Years in Stanford: 2005-2010
Home Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL), 2005
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Currently: CTO, C3 Nano
Dr. Wechung Maria Wang
Years in group: 2004-2010
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA), 2004
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Thesis: Dip-Pen Nanolithography of Electrical Contacts to Organic Nanostructures
Other Info: Hobbies: hiking, dancing and scientific writing/editing
Currently: Scientist, PPG Industries
Dr. Ming Lee Tang
Home Department: Chemistry
Undergraduate School: Brandeis University (Waltham, MA), 2004
Years in this Group: 09/2004-12/2008
Ph.D. Project: Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Acenes for OTFTs and OPV
Currently: Faculty, Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside
Dr. Zihong (Bill) Liu
Years in Group: 2007-2009
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), M.S.(2006), B.S.(2004)
Ph.D. Project: Solution Processed Organic Semiconductor TFTs for Flexible Electronics: Device Physics, Device Modeling, Fabrication Technology, and Interface Engineering
Currently: Founder, Royole Corporation
Dr. Shuhong Liu
Years in Stanford: 2003-2008
Home Department: Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Undergraduate School, Major,Year Shanghai Jiaotong University (Shanghai, China), 2003
Years in this Group: 10/2003-09/2008
Ph.D. Project: Single crystal organic transistors
Currently: Technical Program Manager, Apple
Dr. Colin Reese
Years in Stanford: 2003-2008
Home Department: Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Undergraduate School, Major,Year University of Washington (Seattle, WA), 2003
Years in this Group: 10/2003-09/2008
Ph.D. Project: Single Crystal Organic Transistors
Currently: SpectraWatt
Dr. Mark Roberts
Years in Stanford: 2003-2008
Home Department: Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Undergraduate School, Major,Year Montana State University (Bozeman, MT), 2002
Years in this Group: 10/2003-09/2008
Ph.D. Project: The development and characterization of water-stable organic transistor sensors through material design and device engineering.
Other Info: Hobbies: All sports.
Currently: Faculty, Dept of Chemistry, Clemson University
Dr. Quan Yuan
Years in Stanford: 2005-2008
Home Department: Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Currently: Intel, Arizona
Dr. Hangwoo Lee
Years in group: 2005-2011
Currently: Lam Research, CA.