Alumni
PhD Students
Seth Cordts
Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2017
EMAIL: scordts@stanford.edu
Graduate Research and Rotation Projects
Yofiel Wyle
Graduate Rotation, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Erik Hopkins
Graduate Rotation, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Lourdes Velazquez
Graduate Rotation, Biomolecular Science and Engineering
Olivia Konttinen
Graduate Rotation, Biomolecular Science and Engineering
Danahe Zeyna Mohammed
Graduate, Mechanical Engineering
EMAIL: dana0017@stanford.edu
Lab Alumni: Former PhD Students
Kristina Lamers
PhD: Components of an Improved Design Process for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
Defended June 13, 2008
signatures August'08
Current Affiliation: Akustika (Bosch) Inc.
A. Alvin Barlian
PhD: Microfabricated Piezoresistive Shear Stress Sensors for Underwater Applications
Defended June 12, 2008
signatures December 2008
Current Affiliation: Apple
Vikram Mukundan
PhD: Electrostatic Actuators in Aqueous Ionic Media for Applications in Cell Mechanics
Defended Feb 17, 2009
signatures April 2009
Current Affiliation: FormFactor
Sung-Jin Park
PhD: Development of Piezoresistive Microcantilever Based Force Feedback System for Analysis of Mechanosensation in Caenorhabditis elegans Nematodes
Defended Mar 16, 2009
signatures June 2009
Current Affiliation: Disease Biophysics Lab, Harvard
Nahid Harjee
PhD: Coaxial-Tip Piezoresistive Cantilever Probes for High-Resolution Scanning Gate Microscopy
Defended May 23, 2011
signatures Aug 2011
Current Affiliation: Kateeva, Inc
Joey Doll
PhD: Advances in high bandwidth nanomechanical force sensors with integrated actuation
Defended March 7, 2012
signatures Jul 2012
Current Affiliation: Apple, Inc
Bryan Petzold
The Role of Body Mechanics in Touch Sensation in the Nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans
Defended November 7, 2012
signatures Jan 2013
Current Affiliation: McKinsey & Co.
Rebecca Taylor
Microfabricated Tools for Functional Assessment of Developing Cardiomyocytes
Defended November 8, 2012
signatures Mar 2013Stanford Biochemistry postdoc, Assistant Prof CMU 9/16
Chelsey SimmonsDynamic Cell Culture for Stimulation and Assessment of Cardiovascular Cells
Defended January 25, 2013
signatures May 2013
Current Affiliation: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida
Gadryn Higgs
Microsystems for Studying Single Heart Cell Mecahnobiology
Defended May, 28, 2013
signatures August 2013
Current Affiliation: CAN Mobilities
Joseph Rastegar
Nanomechanical actuation using molecular forces of amino azo benzene dye
Defended May 14, 2013
signatures March 2014
Current Affiliation: PowerGlide
Joo Yong Sim
Microsystems to Study the Mechanobiology of Cell Adhesion
Defended October 30, 2014
signatures December 2014
Current Affiliation: South Korea National Lab
Clifton Roozeboom
Multifunctional Integrated Sensors for Wireless Sensor Network Applications
Defended April 30, 2015
signatures August 2015
Current Affiliation: Myriad Sensors, Inc. Founder
Ehsan Sadeghipour
A MEMS Actuator and Sensor for the Study of Cell Mechanics and Adhesion
Defended September 17, 2015
signatures March 2016
Current Affiliation: Stanford University Post-doc
Eileen Mazzochette
An Integrated and Automated System for Assaying Touch Sensation in Freely Moving C. elegans
Defended March 21, 2016
signatures May 2016
Current Affiliation: Haptic Hardware Engineer, Apple Inc.
Lab Alumni: Postdoc
James Norman
Mechanical measurements of primary heart cells in health and disease
joint with Prof. Dan Bernstein in Pediatrics
Jan 2007-Feb 2009
Current Affiliation: Warner Babcock Institute
Keekyoung Kim
Biomechanical Characterization of Cardiomyocytes
joint with Prof. Dan Bernstein in Pediatrics
Jan 2009- July 2010
Current Affiliation: UBC Okanagan
Moe Badi
ME342 project development
Current Affiliation: BCG
Ginel Hill
Ultrasmall Cantilevers for Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy
Ginel's Work
Jan 2009-Dec 2010
Current Affiliation: SITime, Sunnyvale, CA
Sung-Jin Park
Understanding the Sense of Touch
Sung-Jin's work
July 2009-Dec 2010
Current Affiliation: Disease Biophysics Group
Harvard University
Yingning Gao
Chemical Functionalization of Sensors
Yingning's work
Aug 2010-Aug 2011
Current Affiliation: CalState Los Angeles
Nicolas Borghi
Mechanics of cell adhesion
Current Affiliation: Institut Jacques Monod
Paris, France
Cindy Chung
3D Culture of Cells under Strain in Custom Biomaterials
Current Affiliation: Theranos, Inc
Wendy Altman
Microsystems and Methodologies for the Study of Cardiomyocyte Mechanotransduction
Current Affiliation: Self
Jens Moeller
Platform Development to Study the Cellular Mechanics of Leukocyte Transmigration
Current Affiliation: group head, ETH Zurich
Tom Larsen
High Bandwidth Nanomechanical Force Sensors for Studying the Sense of Hearing
Current Affiliation: postdoc, EPFL
Frederic Loizeau
Piezoresistive Micro Probes for Fluorescence-Based Mechanobiology Studies
Current Affiliation: Key Account Manager, Senserion
Mahdokht Masaeli
Microfluidics for Size-based Sorting of Cardiomyocytes
Current Affiliation: Co Founder, DeepCell, Inc.
Anna A. Kim
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mechanical Engineering
Swedish Research Council International Postdoc
Joint with the O'Brien lab at Stanford University (http://www.stemdynamics.org)
2017-2021
Lab Alumni Senior Researchers
Yair Kaufman
Using Atomic Force Microscopy of Neurons to study Traumatic Brain Injury
Self-Actuated and Self-Sensing Microcantilevers for Expanded Atomic Force Microscopy Applications
Email: yairkauf@icloud.com
Master Project Students
Frederic Declercq
EPFL MS Project
SU-8 optical MEMS blood pressure sensor
Tenure: Aut'04 - Win'05
Jonas Schoendube
ETH Zurich MS Project
Microfluidic Cell Delivery System
Tenure: 2009-2010
In loving memory: Rune Nielsen
DTU MS Project
Tenure: March 2010 - Dec 18, 2010
Matthias Rudt
ETH Zurich MS Project
Cardiomyocyte Cell Mechanics
Tenure: 2012
Joshua Dolinsky
Investigating protein-hydrogel interactions and effects of charge on polyacrylamide properties.
Tenure: 2020-2021
Lab Alumni: Affiliated for Graduate, Undergraduate, RET, REU, or HS Research Projects
Graduate Research and Rotation Projects
Paritosh Ambekar
ME
Tenure: Win'03-Spring04
Sara Shaughnessy
MS rotation, MSME'04
silicon MEMS blood pressure sensors
Tenure: Win'04 - Sum'04
Vanessa "B" Chial
MS rotation, MSME'05
sensors for neonatal mice monitoring
Tenure: Sum'04 - Spr'05
Andrew Davenport
MS Research, MSME'05
Noise in Piezoresistors
Tenure: Aut'03 - Spr'05
Sara (Yanan) Zhao
MEMS for CHO cell characterization
Tenure: Win'04 - Fall'05
Amy Lee
ME342 TA
Tenure: Win'05 - Sum'05
Paul Lim
EE PhD student w/ Prof. Jim Harris
Noise in Piezoresistors
Tenure: Sum'05 - Sum'06
Asha-Dee Celestine
MS Rotation, MS AeroAstro'07
modeling TRN mechanics
Tenure: Aut'06
Sujay Ramachandra
MS Rotation, MSME'07
Nanocomposites
Tenure: Sum'06
Holly Butterfield
MS Rotation
electrostatic aqueous transducers
Tenure: summer 2007- spring 2008
Jeff Li
Coterm Research, MSME 2007
Shear sensor calibration and AFM of cells
Tenure: Sum'05-Win'07
Niveditha Arumugam
MS ME 2008
Electrical Stimulation of Cardiac Stem Cells
Tenure: 2007-2008
Tracy Fung
MS EE 2008
Piezoresistive Cantilever Chemical Sensors
Tenure: 2007-2008
Shivonne Haniff
Masters Rotation
MEMS Testing of Cardiomyocytes
Tenure: Spring-Summer 2009
Holly Butterfield
MSME 2010
Electrostatic Actuators in Aqueous Media
Tenure: Summer 2007-Spring 2008
Jian Fung
Biophysics Rotation
Tenure: Spring10
Yatian Qu
Research Rotation
Tenure: Fall10-Spring11
Kevin Dalton
Biophysics Rotation
Tenure: Win 2011
Elizabeth Martin
MSME 2012
Mechanotransduction through ECM
Tenure: Fall 2010-Spring 2012
Pierre Ponce
Graduate Research:
Underwater Electrostatic Actuation and Sensing
Tenure: 2005-2010
Joe Mallon
Graduate Research:
Piezoresistor Design and Sensing
Tenure: 2006-2011
Ki Wook Jung
Graduate Research:
Understanding the Sense of Touch - Control Design
Tenure: 2011-2014
Undergraduate, RET, REU, and HS Research Projects
Malcolm Murdock
Undergrad Research
Tenure: Spring04
Cha Edmonds
Undergrad Research - Labview Data Acquisition
Tenure: Sum'04
Caitlin Quance Donhowe
Undergrad Research
Characterization of Shear Stress Sensors
Tenure: Sum'04
Eerik Hantsoo
Undergrad Research
Conductor modified polymers
Tenure: Win'04 - Sum'05
Mela Johnson
UMD REU
Labview Data AcquistionSum'04
Ratul NarainUndergrad Research
uPIV Characterization of Shear Stress Sensors
Tenure: Spr'05 - Aut'05
Jared Brown
Undergrad Research
Polymer Nanocomposites
Tenure: Spr'05 - Aut'05
Jenna Perez
Undergrad Research
Tenure: Sum'05
Ambert Ho
Undergrad Research
Signal Conditioning for Shear Stress Sensors
Tenure: Sum'05
Jeff Li
Undergrad Research
Tenure: 2005-2007
Josh Stark
Undergrad Research
piezoresistor noise and sensitivity
Tenure: Spr'06-Fall'06
Jennifer Walz
City College REU
Cell Patterning
Ucp_paper_for_CPIMA_SURE_program.pdf
Tenure: Sum'06
Jessica Schlichting
Undergrad Research (off campus)
Tenure: Sum'07
Natasha Prats
Stanford Product Design, Class of 2009
Cardiomyocyte mechanics
Tenure: 2007
Nandita Sriram
Stanford Biomechanical Engineering Class of 2009
Tenure: 2007
Erin Dizon
Undergrad Research
Tenure: Summer'07
Nathan Ng
Undergrad Research
Tenure: Sum'07
Subhanu Samarajiva
Undergrad Rotation : Cardiomyocyte Mechanics
Tenure: 2009-2010
Sanna Ali
REU Summer 09
AFM Studies of Dissociated Touch Receptor Neurons
Tenure: Summer 2009
Balaji Chandrasekhar
REU Summer 09
Hydrophilic Properties of Plasma-Treated PDMS
Tenure: Summer 2009
Chloe Powell
Undergrad Research - Understanding the Sense of Touch
Tenure: Sum'10
Ranjeetha Bharath
Undergrad Research - Understanding the Sense of Touch
Tenure: Sum'11
Gabriel Guimte
Undergrad Research - Understanding the Sense of Touch
Tenure: Sum'11
Sanjay Saraf
Undergrad Research - Strain Array Pressure Controller
Tenure: 2010-2012
Daniel Hsu
Undergrad Research - Calibration Code
Tenure: Sum'11
Sarah Chang
Undergrad Research - Mechanobiology of CMs
Tenure: Sum'11 & Sum'12
Maxwell Taylor
HS researchTFM code analysis
Tenure: Sum'12
Samir Hossainy
HS research - Modified Inkjet Printer for Protein patterns
Tenure: Sum'13
Brian Huynh
ME SURI - Worm Tracking Behavior Rig Hardward Design
Tenure: Sum'13
Camilla Sloan
Microsystems ethnography
Tenure: Fall '13
Veronica Sanchez
Visualization of C. elegans cuticle under strain
Tenure: Summer '15
Nicole Impastato
Undergraduate Researcher
Lan-Chi Ho
Reagan Kennedy
Developing quantitative analysis methods for epithelial cell migration and cardiac hiPSC contraction.
Chrisangela Martin
Undergraduate Researcher
Amanda Nguyen
Undergraduate Researcher
Research Experience for Teachers
Aaron Keller
RET
Evaluating the sense of touch
Tenure: Sum'04
Wei Li
RET summer 08
cell patterning studies with Chelsey Simmons
Tenure: summer 2008