Masters and Undergraduate Students
Mr. Pranav Gurusankar
Year in joining group: 2021, 2023, Undergraduate
Home Department: Computer Science
Research Interests: Flexible bioelectronics for therapy of facial palsy, and for expedited wound healing
Hobbies: food, tennis, cycling, Wikipedia rabbit-holes
Email: pranavg@stanford.edu
Ms. Elisa Lucia Ponte
Year in joining group: 2022, Undergraduate
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Research interests: thin film kinetics
Hobbies: soccer, drawing, spending time with friends
Email: pontee@stanford.edu
Mr. Winson Cheng
Year in joining group: 2022, Undergraduate
Home Department: Computer Science
Research Interests: Conductive self-healing polymer hydrogels, wearable and flexible electronics, computational chemistry
Hobbies: Composing/singing, reading horror/thriller novels, weightlifting, biking, sleeping
Email: winsonc@stanford.edu
Ms. Swetha Vaidyanathan
Year in joining group: 2022, Masters Student
Home Department: Material Science and Engineering (MATSCI)
Undergraduate School: Shiv Nadar College of Engineering, Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai, India
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Research interest: Battery Recycling, Waste resource recovery, Flexible batteries for wearable applications, Composite and origami-architected materials for prosthetics
Hobbies: Classical Dance, Music, Cooking, Art, and Craft
Email: swetha99@stanford.edu
Mr. Tomi Sogade
Year in joining group: 2022, Undergraduate
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Research Interest: Functional textiles, conductive and responsive polymers, 3D knitting, electrolyte and separator development for batteries, material composites
Hobbies: skateboarding, fashion, mixed martial arts, music production
Email: sogade@stanford.edu
Mr. Wei-Chun (Jason) Hsu
Year in joining group: 2022, Masters Student
Home Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Undergraduate School: National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Undergraduate Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interest: Stretchable Semiconductors, Wearable Chemical and Biological Sensors, and Robotic, Implantable, Neuro-interface
Hobbies: Movies, Music, Singing, Traveling, Playing basketball & guitar
Email: weichun@stanford.edu
Ms. Gradie Ngaruka
Year in joining group: 2021, Undergraduate
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: polymer semi-conductor and solution shearing for organic semiconductor thin film.
Hobbies: Reading, Watching movies, cooking, TikTok, and card games.
Email: gradiengaruka1@stanford.edu
Mr. Jason Phong
Year in joining group: 2020, Undergraduate
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Research interest: Conductive hydrogels and capacitive pressure sensors
Hobbies: music, running, food, and TV
Email: jkphong@stanford.edu