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 |
| Alexandre Persat | Ph.D. Mech. Eng. | 2010 | Assistant professor, EPFL |
| Daniel G. Strickland | Ph.D. Mech. Eng. | 2010 | Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University |
| Thomas A. Zangle | Ph.D. Mech. Eng. | 2010 | Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering The university of Utah, Utah |
| Tarun Khurana | Ph.D. Mech. Eng. | 2008 | Scientist, Illumina Inc. |
| Cullen Buie | Ph.D. Mech. Eng. | 2008 | Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Shawn Litster | Ph.D. Mech. Eng. | 2008 | Professor, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Klint Rose | Ph.D. Mech. Eng. | 2007� | Scientist, Lawrence Livermore Natl Labs Meso, Micro, and Nano Scale Technology Section |
| Byoungsok Jung | Ph.D. Mech. Eng. | 2006 | Postdoc,� Lawrence Livermore Natl Labs Applied Physics Division |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Rajiv Bharadwaj | Ph.D. Mech. Eng. | 2005� | R&D Engineer, Caliper Technologies |
| Sumita Pennathur | Ph.D. Mech. Eng. | 2005� | Professor, UC Santa Barbara |
| Chuan-Hua Chen | Ph.D. Mech. Eng. | 2004� | Professor, Duke University http://www.duke.edu/web/uphyl/index.html |
| Michael Oddy | Ph.D. Mech. Eng. | 2004� | Finance Quant., Barclays Capital |
| Shankar Devasenathipathy | Ph.D. Mech. Eng. | 2003� | Thermal & Fluids Lab Manager at Intel Corporation |
| Josh I. Molho | Ph.D. Mech. Eng. | 2001� | Director, Engineering - Milo at ProteinSimple |
| Amy Herr | Ph.D. Mech. Eng | 2002 | Professor, UC Berkeley |
| Bruce P. Mosier | Eng. Deg� Mech. Eng. |
2001� | Research Scientist, Sandia Natl. Labs |
| Luis Garcia | M.S. Mech. Eng. | 2003� | Head of Product Operations, Local Services Ads, GoogleE |
| 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. |
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 |