Ph.D. Graduate Students
Jacob Florian
Year joined group: 2023
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School and Major: University of Michigan, B.S. Chemical Engineering
Project: Solid-Electrolyte Interphase in Li Batteries
Hobbies: Tennis, skiing, and reading
Email: florianj@stanford.edu
Yujia Yuan
Year joined group: 2023
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
Undergraduate major: Electrical Engineering
Project: Flexible Electronics
Hobbies: Table tennis, road trip
Email: yujiay@stanford.edu
Diego Uruchurtu Patino
Year joined group: 2023
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School and Major: University of Texas at Austin, B.S. Chemical Engineering, Business Minor
Project: Synthesis and Applications of Carbon Nanoflowers
Hobbies: I enjoy hanging out with friends, sports, video games, hiking, surfing, reading, and coffee
Email: durupat@stanford.edu
Alexandra L. Ramos Figueroa
Year joined group: 2023
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Stretchable Materials
Hobbies: Beach Volleyball, Amateur Nail Artist, Traveling, Binge TV Shows
Email: aramosfi@stanford.edu
Twitter: alexandraLramos
Yating Yao
Year joined group: 2023
Home Department: Chemistry
Undergraduate School: Peking University, China
Undergraduate Major: Chemistry
Project: Fabrication and applications of intrinsically stretchable electronics
Hobbies: Minecraft, coffee, ping-pong, cooking
Email: ytyao@stanford.edu
Elizabeth Zhang
Year joined group: 2023
Home Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Battery materials
Hobbies: Drawing, anime, archery, boiling crab
Email: eliz2000@stanford.edu
Il Rok Choi
Year joined group: 2022
Home Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Undergraduate School: Seoul National University, S. Korea
Undergraduate Major: Materials Science and Engineering & Technology Management
Project: Stretchable battery
Hobbies: Tennis, music, movies, reading
Email: rokchoi at stanford.edu
Spencer Zhao
Year joined group: 2022
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of Toronto, Canada
Undergraduate Major: Engineering Science
Project: Trigger-initiated in situ assembly of conductive polymers in the extracellular space
Hobbies: photography, playing piano
Email: szhao7 at stanford.edu
Eunyoung (Grace) Kim
Year joined group: 2022
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Undergraduate and MPhil Degree: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Undergraduate Major: Mechanical Engineering
Project: Dielectric elastomer actuators, stretchable materials, sensors
Hobbies: Trying new things - ex. travelling, DIY crafting
Email: ekime at stanford.edu
Rachael Kaitlyn Mow
Year joined group: 2022
Home Department: Chemistry
Undergraduate School: Columbia University, NY
Undergraduate Major: Chemistry
Project: Development and Synthesis of Novel Conjugated Molecules for Stretchable Electronics
Hobbies: Cooking, Baking, Calligraphy, Horse Vaulting
Email: rkm2021 at stanford.edu
Yuran Shi
Year joined group: 2022
Home Department: Chemistry
Undergraduate School: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Undergraduate Major: Chemistry and Computer Science
Project: Photo-responsive polymer
Hobbies: Cars, Motorcycles, Film Photography, Rock Music, Swimming
Email: yuran at stanford.edu
Max Schrock
Year joined group: 2022
Home Department: Chemistry
Undergraduate School: University of California, Santa Barbara
Undergraduate Major: Chemistry
Project: Superlattice Alignment of Conjugated Polymers
Hobbies: Cycling, Cooking, Hiking, Working on Cars
Email: mschrock at stanford.edu
Kelly Liu
Year joined group: 2021
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Stretchable polymer semiconductor
Hobbies: Cooking, Running, Skiing, Traveling, Playing Piano
Email: kellyliu at stanford.edu
Arielle Berman
Year joined group: 2021
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Master’s Degree: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; Mechanical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Penn State University – Schreyer Honors College, State College, PA
Undergraduate Major: Mechanical Engineering
Project: Multifunctional sensors for tactile identification
Hobbies: Skiing, Cooking, Baking, Boardgames, Road Biking
Email: aberman7 at stanford.edu
Michal Gala
Year joined group: 2021
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: New architectures of organic semiconductors
Hobbies: Travel, History, Literature, Food
Email: mlgala at stanford.edu
Yuya Nishio
Year joined group: 2021
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Nagoya University, Japan
Undergraduate Major: Electrical Engineering
Project: Stretchable Electronics, Carbon Nanotubes
Hobbies: Hiking, Tennis, Traveling, Food
Email: yuya at stanford.edu
Jerika Chiong
Year joined group: 2020
Home Department: Chemistry
Undergraduate School: University of California, San Diego
Undergraduate Major: Chemistry
Project: Polymer semiconductors
Hobbies: Music, Traveling, Food
Email: jachiong at stanford.edu
Yuelang Chen
Year joined group: 2020
Home Department: Chemistry
Undergraduate School: University of Toronto, Canada
Undergraduate Major: Chemistry
Project: Lithium Battery Materials
Hobbies: Sports, Netflix
Email: ylc at stanford.edu
Amnahir Estefania Peña-Alcántara
Year joined group: 2020
Home Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Undergraduate School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA
Undergraduate Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Project:
Hobbies: Volleyball, Eating, Movies, Reading
Email: amnahir at stanford.edu
Chris Brittain Cooper
Year joined group: 2019
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
MPhil Institution & Major: University of Cambridge, UK; Chemical Engineering (Churchill Scholar)
Undergraduate School: NC State University
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering, Economics
Project: Self-Aligning Polymer
Hobbies: Hiking, Swimming, Tennis, Reading
Email: cbcooper at stanford.edu
Huaxin Gong
Year joined group: 2019
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Zhejiang University, China
Undergraduate Major: Chemical Engineering
Project: Carbon Flower
Hobbies: League of Legends, Movie, Music, Anime, Hiking
Email: huaxin at stanford.edu
Rachel Zhuojun Huang
Year joined group: 2019
Home Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Undergraduate School: UC Berkeley, CA
Undergraduate Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Project: Polymer battery materials
Hobbies: Ukulele, comedy
Google Scholar
The Big Nano (My WordPress blog)
Email: zjhuang at stanford.edu
Weichen Wang
Year joined group: 2018
Home Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Undergraduate School: Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Undergraduate Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Project: Fabrication and applications of intrinsically stretchable electronics
Hobbies: League of Legends
Email: weichenw at stanford.edu