FMA projects from 2019-2020 are listed below. FMAs are commonly renewed for additional years, some of these same projects are listed in subsequent years.
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Design modeling of miniature silicon vapor chamber heat spreaders
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Ken Goodson, ME
goodson@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
AMEND/Heterogeneous Integration
Silicon-based Vapor chamber Heat Spreader Design and Fabrication
Fellow:
Farid Soroush and Chi Zhang
Advisor:
Prof. Ken Goodson, ME
goodson@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Heterogeneous Integration
Low-power PPG/SPO2 signal acquisition
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Boris Murmann, EE
murmann@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Flat lens and metasurface
Fellow:
David Sell
Advisor:
Prof. Jonathan Fan, EE
jonfan@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Photonics and Quantum Technologies
Film deposition, annealing and analysis, including XRD, XPS, and SEM-EDS, plus focus on TGA/DSC with powders
Fellow:
Payton Broaddus
Advisor:
Prof. Olav Solgaard, EE
solgaard@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
AMEND
Boron Nitride and Other Films for Oxidation and Corrosion Protection
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Eric Pop, EE
epop@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
AMEND
Efficient utilization of diverse computer resources with a cloud-based quantum chemistry framework
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Todd Martinez, Chemistry
Todd.Martinez@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Photonic and Quantum Technology
Exploration of N3XT Computing Systems for Aerospace Applications
Fellow:
Andrew Bartolo
Advisor:
Prof. Subhasish Mitra, EE & CS
subh@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Enhancing accuracy and lowering cost for digital twins through hybrid ML4CFD models
Fellow:
Andrew Banko
Advisor:
Prof. John Eaton, ME
eatonj@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Mixed-signal circuit design for low-energy machine learning platforms
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Boris Murmann, EE
murmann@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Q factor determination for inertial sensors
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Tom Kenny, ME
kenny@cdr.stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Internet of Everything
Interactive Haptic simulation and robot teleportation
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Oussama Khatib, CS
KHATIB@CS.stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Designing a high-efficiency RF power amplifier for plasma generation
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Juan Rivas, EE
jmrivas@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Energy/Power Management Systems
Minimal energy wireless sensing and comms
Fellow:
Yinuo Xu
Advisor:
Prof. Thomas H. Lee, EE
tomlee@ee.stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Internet of Everything
Memory-centric computing
Fellow:
Robert Radway
Advisor:
Prof. Subhasish Mitra, EE & CS
subh@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Compression for VR
Fellow:
Kedar Tatwawadi, Julien Martel, and Francis Yan
Advisors:
Prof. Tsachy Weissman, EE
tsachy@stanford.edu
Prof. Gordon Wetzstein, EE
gordon.wetzstein@stanford.edu
Prof. Keith Winstein, CS
keithw@cs.stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Photonics and Quantum Technologies
Distributed ray tracing
Fellow:
Advisors:
Prof. Kayvon Fatahalian, CS
kayvonf@stanford.edu
Prof. Pat Hanrahan, EE & CS
hanrahan@cs.stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Photonics and Quantum Technologies
Joint source-channel-computation-coding
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Tsachy Weissman, EE
tsachy@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Heterogeneous Integration
Exploring the accuracy of quantum simulators for quantum chemistry and developing new algorithms for quantum chemistry on quantum computers
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Todd Martinez, Chemistry
Todd.Martinez@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Photonic and Quantum Technologies
Acoustic Emission Characterization of Thin Films
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Debbie Senesky, Aero/Astro
dsenesky@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
AMEND
III-V High Electron Mobility Sensors
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Debbie Senesky, Aero/Astro
dsenesky@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Energy/Power Management Systems
Study of Widebandgap (GaN) Device Characterization and Modeling
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Srabanti Chowdhury, EE
srabanti@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Energy/Power Management Systems
Microwave Probing and Calibration of Cryogenic Quantum Circuits
Fellow:
Felix Mayor
Advisor:
Prof. Amir Hossein Safavi-Naeini, AP
safavi@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Photonic & Quantum Technologies
SiC, GaN and Si technology comparison for high power RF plasma generators
Fellow:
Zikang Tong & Zhechi Ye
Advisor:
Prof. Juan Rivas, EE
jmrivas@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Energy/Power Management Systems
Area selective deposition at the nanoscale
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Stacey Bent, MSE
sbent@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
AMEND
Novel Materials and Device Technology for In-Memory-Compute NMDT for IMC
Fellow:
Shengjun (Sophia) Qin
Advisor:
Prof. H.-S. Philip Wong, EE
hspwong@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Heterogeneous Integration/AMEND
MOCVD deposition of two-dimensional materials
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Eric Pop, EE
epop@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
AMEND
Optimization and machine learning
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Stephen Boyd, EE
stephen.boyd@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Time series analysis, generation, and imputation for portfolio optimization
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Jose Blanchet, MS&E
jblanche@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Focusing on the issue of accurate and efficient object segmentation from video sequences
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Silvio Savarese, CS
ssilvio@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Machine learning in resource-constrained processor hardware
Fellow:
Scott Blankenberg
Advisor:
Prof. Boris Murmann, EE
murmann@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Internet of Everything
Exploring applications of Vanadium Oxides (Vox) - Insulator-Metal Transition Films
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Eric Pop, EE
epop@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
AMEND
Characterization and understanding the origin of "Cross-related losses" in GaN, SiC, and SJ technologies
Fellow:
Grayson Zulauf & Jia Zhuang
Advisors:
Prof. Juan Rivas, EE
jmrivas@stanford.edu
Prof. Jim Plummer, EE
plummer@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Energy/Power Management Systems
Learning and Planning Applications on Urban Scenarios
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Mykel Kochenderfer, Aero/Astro
mykel@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Design Productivity Enhancement through HW Macro Generation
Fellow:
Gedeon Nyengele, Alex Carsello, & Teguh Hofstee
Advisor:
Prof. Mark Horowitz, CS&EE
horowitz@ee.stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Design Productivity
Toward 2D-FETs with sub-1 nm EOT
Fellow:
Alwin Daus & Jung-Soo Ko
Advisor:
Prof. Eric Pop, EE
epop@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Heterogeneous Integration
Surface engineering for selective deposition
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Stacey Bent, MSE
sbent@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
AMEND
High-density power converters with Piezo-electric resonators
Fellow:
Weston Braun
Advisor:
Prof. Juan Rivas, EE
jmrivas@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Energy/Power Management Systems
Wearable multimodal biosensor platforms
Fellow:
Nick Vitale
Advisor:
Prof. Boris Murmann, EE
murmann@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Internet of Everything/Heterogeneous Integration
Bio and magnetic interfaces
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Shan Wang, MSE & EE
sxwang@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Bio Interfaces
Optimal computing organization - 3D vs 2D - for specific computing domains
Fellows:
Guénolé Lallement & Massimo Giordano
Advisors:
Prof. Subhasish Mitra, EE & CS
subh@stanford.edu
Prof. Boris Murmann, EE
murmann@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
RRAM Characterization for Deep Learning
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Boris Murmann, EE
murmann@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
