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Stanford Microfluidics Laboratory

Former Members and Alumni

Graduated Students

Name Degree Year of PhD Current position
Diego I. Oyarzun Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2019

Postdoc at Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab (LLNL)

Ali Hemmatifar Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2018

Postdoc at MIT

Yatian Qu Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2016

Research Engineer at Facebook Reality Labs

Charbel Eid Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2016

Head of Platform Development at BigHat Biosciences

Crystal Han Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2015

Assistant Professor, San Jose State University

Viktor Shkolnikov Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2015

Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs

Denitsa Milanova Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2015

Technology Development Fellow, Wyss Institute of Technology

Matt Suss Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2013

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Israel

Anita Rogacs Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2013

Head of Life Sciences Strategy and R&D, HP Labs

Lewis Marshall Ph.D. Chem. Eng. 2012

Senior Manager, Purigen Biosystems

Moran Bercovici Ph.D. Aero. Astro. Eng. 2011

Professor, Technion, Israel

http://meeng.technion.ac.il/Moran_Bercovici.htm

Alexandre Persat Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2010

Assistant professor, EPFL

https://www.p-lab.science/people/

Daniel G. Strickland Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2010

Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University

http://www.scu.edu/engineering/me/faculty/strickland.cfm

Thomas A. Zangle Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2010

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering The university of Utah, Utah

http://www.zanglelab.com

Tarun Khurana Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2008

Scientist, Illumina Inc.

khurana@stanfordalumni.org

https://sites.google.com/site/tarunkhurana/

Cullen Buie Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2008

Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

crb@mit.edu

http://web.mit.edu/lemi

Shawn Litster Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2008

Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

litster@andrew.cmu.edu

Klint Rose Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2007�

Scientist, Lawrence Livermore Natl Labs

Meso, Micro, and Nano Scale Technology Section
www.llnl.gov
rose38@llnl.gov

Byoungsok Jung Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2006

Postdoc,� Lawrence Livermore Natl Labs

Applied Physics Division
jung7@llnl.gov

David Hertzog Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2006� Associate Director Systems Engineering at Illumina
Daejoong Kim Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2006�

Professor, Sogang Univ in Korea

daejoongkim@stanfordalumni.org

David Huber Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2006� Engineering Research Associate
Stanford Genome Technology Center
Shuhuai Yao Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2005�

Professor, Hong Kong Univ of Science and Technology

http://www.me.ust.hk/?q=meshyao

Rajiv Bharadwaj Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2005�

R&D Engineer, Caliper Technologies

Rajiv.Bharadwaj@caliperls.com

Sumita Pennathur Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2005�

Professor, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/~sumita/
sumita@alum.mit.edu

Chuan-Hua Chen Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2004�

Professor, Duke University

http://www.duke.edu/web/uphyl/index.html
chuan-hua.chen@stanfordalumni.org

Michael Oddy Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2004�

Finance Quant., Barclays Capital

oddy@stanford.edu

Shankar Devasenathipathy Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2003�

Thermal & Fluids Lab Manager at Intel Corporation

dshankar@stanfordalumni.org

Josh I. Molho Ph.D. Mech. Eng. 2001�

Director, Engineering - Milo at ProteinSimple

http://micromachine.stanford.edu/~jmolho/

jmolho@stanfordalumni.org

Amy Herr Ph.D. Mech. Eng 2002

Professor, UC Berkeley

http://herrlab.berkeley.edu/

aeh@stanfordalumni.org

Bruce P. Mosier Eng. Deg�
Mech. Eng.
2001�

Research Scientist, Sandia Natl. Labs
www.sandia.gov
bmosier@sandia.gov

Luis Garcia M.S. Mech. Eng. 2003�

Head of Product Operations, Local Services Ads, GoogleE

ldg@stanford.edu

Brian Kidd M.S. Mech. Eng. 2001� Researcher, Stanford Medical School
Karen Bletzer M.S. Mech. Eng. 2000� Developer at Workday

 

Former Postdocs and Research Scientists

Name Degree Current position
Last year in Lab
James Palko Ph.D. Materials science and engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Assistant Professor
University of California, Merced
jpalko@ucmerced.edu
2017
Govind V. Kaigala Ph.D.
University of Alberta, Canada

Researcher, IBM Research Laboratory, Zurich.

2010
Reto Schoch Ph.D.
EPFL, Switzerland

Illumina, Inc.

http://sites.google.com/site/rbschoch

2009
Tibor Fabian Ph.D.
University of Vienna 
CTO, Ardica Inc. 2007
Jonathan D. Posner Ph.D.
University of California at Irvine�
Professor, University of Washington
http://posner.uw.edu
jposner {at} uw {dot} edu
2005
Hao Lin Ph.D.
University of California at Berkeley
Professor, Rutgers University
hlin@ove.rutgers.edu
http://cronos.rutgers.edu/~hlin/
2003
Jim Mikkelson Ph.D. Chemistry
Brown University
Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies
Stanford University
mikkelse@stanford.edu
2003
Shulin Zeng Ph.D. Chem. Eng.
University of Colorado at Boulder
R&D Engineer, Cannon Corp. 2002
Guiren Wang Ph.D. Mech. Eng
Tech. University of Berlin,� Germany� .
Professor,� U. South Carolina
http://www.me.sc.edu/fs/wang.html
wanggu@engr.sc.edu
2002
Peng Zhou Ph.D. Mech. Eng
Stanford University
R&D Engineer, Cooligy Inc. -

 

Visitors

Name Current position
Last year in Lab
Hirofumi Shintaku Ph.D., Riken Hakubi Team Leader (PI) 2014
Kentaro Kuriyama Mechanical Engineer, Sony Corporation, Japan 2014
Roger Bod�n Researcher, Uppsala University, Sweden 2014
Motohiko Nohmi Ph.D., Ebara Corp., Fujisawa, Japan 2008
Takashi Matsumura Scientist, Ebara Corp., Fujisawa, Japan 2008
Alan M. Meyers Ph.D., Intel Corporation 2007
Che-Wei Lin M.S.M.E.,� Industrial Technology Research Inst., Taiwan 2007
Lilian Min High school teacher from Etiwanda,� CA 2007
Tomoyuki Morita Scientist, Ebara Corp., Fujisawa, Japan 2007
Yonggang Zhu Ph.D., Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia 2006
Suman Chakraborty Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur 2005
Bijan Mohammadhi Professor, Montpellier University, France 2001