SystemX Alliance Newsletter - December 2025
Welcome new members
Welcome IMEC, Marvell, Caterpillar, Tencent, Keypasco, Siemens, Fixstars, LAM Research, Type 1 Compute, Marverick Silicon, Oakseed Ventures, Pangaia Capital as the newest members of SystemX Alliance.
New Look, New Features: SystemX Website
The SystemX website has been refreshed with an updated look and structure. In addition to improved navigation and updated content across research areas, events, etc., we have launched a new Recruitment page https://systemx.stanford.edu/recruitment as part of our ongoing effort to connect Stanford students with industry opportunities.
SystemX member companies can now easily share internship and job opportunities on the website, while Stanford students can upload their profiles and resumes to be visible to the SystemX ecosystem, helping facilitate more targeted connections between talent and industry.
Explore the updated site at https://systemx.stanford.edu.
SystemX Alliance2025 Annual Conference Recap
On October 14–15, Stanford SystemX hosted its Annual Conference on campus, bringing together Stanford faculty, students, and SystemX member companies for two days of technical exchange and collaboration. The conference showcased recent research progress and industry engagement across SystemX’s key focus areas, including Design Technology, Computation for Data Analytics, Heterogeneous Integration, Advanced Materials Enabling Novel Devices, Energy/Power Management Systems, Photonic and Quantum Technologies, and Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
The program featured research updates and forward-looking perspectives from Stanford faculty, highlighting emerging directions and opportunities at the intersection of frontier research and real-world applications. Invited industry leaders added valuable industry context, including Dr. Ahmad Bahai (CTO, Texas Instruments), Dr. Vahid Vahedi (CTO, Lam Research), and a featured fireside chat with Mark Papermaster (CTO, AMD) during the conference dinner on October 14.
The conference also included student poster sessions and networking opportunities, enabling connections among faculty, students, and SystemX member companies. For those who were unable to attend or would like to revisit the discussions, event recordings and related materials are available on the SystemX website:https://systemx.stanford.edu/events/annual-conference/systemx-fall-conference-october-14-15-2025
We thank all speakers, participants, and contributors for making the 2025 Annual Conference a success and for continuing to strengthen the SystemX ecosystem through collaboration and innovation.
Here are a few snapshots from the event:
SAVE THE DATE!
SystemX Spring Workshop 2026
May 21, 2026
Li Ka Shing Center | Stanford University
Stanford SystemX will host its annual Spring Workshop on May 21 at Stanford University. This year’s workshop will focus on the theme “Holistic Power Optimization: from Large System and Power Grid to Device-Level Efficiency and Advanced Materials.”
The program will bring together Stanford faculty, students, and the SystemX ecosystem to explore power and energy challenges across the full technology stack—from system- and grid-level considerations to device-level efficiency, advanced materials, and enabling technologies.
Additional program details and registration information will be shared in the coming months. We look forward to seeing you there. More info will be updated on https://systemx.stanford.edu/events
New Event Series: Innovation to Impact
We are launching a new SystemX event series focused on Innovation to Impact, designed for Explorer Members and innovation leaders from large corporations seeking to translate emerging technologies into real-world value.
Bringing together Stanford faculty, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and VC experts, the series will start with themes such as effective technology innovation in large corporations and the journey of startups from product to market, while opening the door to broader discussions on how new technologies can scale and create impact.
The first session is planned for March 2026, with more details to be shared soon.
Upcoming Quarter SystemX Seminars
We’re gearing up for one more exciting quarter of the SystemX Seminar Series, every Thursday at 4.30 pm PST. The next series will bring together innovators, researchers, and industry leaders whose work is shaping the future of sensors, computing, security, and semiconductor technology. The lineup features presentations from Amazon, Palo Alto Networks, Infineon, Imec, Leti, Maverick Silicon, and Stanford.
Students & Faculty Awards/Recognitions
- Prof. Simona Onori was elected IEEE Fellow, Class 2026 "for contributions to energy systems modeling, control, and optimization."
- Junrui Lyu got the Samsung outstanding student researcher award
- Prof. Srabanti Chowdhury received the 2025 International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS) Quantum Devices Award
- Zhengliang Bian received the James Gibbons award for Best TA
- Eric Stolt, Weston Braun, Prof. Juan Rivas-Davila, (and Kristi Nguyen, Vakhtang Chulukhadze, Ruochen Lu from UT Austin) received the 2025 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Second Place Prize Paper Award for the paper "A Spurious-Free Piezoelectric Resonator Based 3.2 kW DC–DC Converter for EV On-Board Chargers"
- Zhechi Ye, Katherine Liang, and Prof. Juan Rivas-Davila received the COMPEL 2025 Best Paper Award for the paper “On the design of switched-mode broadband high frequency power inverters”
- Katherine Liang, Malachi Hornbuckle and Prof. Juan Rivas-Davila received the APEC 2025 Outstanding Presentation Award for the paper presented by Katherine Liang titled “A Compact, Automated Sawyer‑Tower System for Characterization of the High‑Frequency, Soft‑Switching Coss Loss of Wide Bandgap Devices”
- Prof. Joseph Kahn appointed the Harald Trap Friis Professor
- Nika Zahedi was awarded a 2025 Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
- Prof. Shanhui Fan was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors