FMA Archive 2020-2021

FMA projects from 2020-2021 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

Sougata Hazra, Jillian Anderson, and Chi Zhang

Fellow:

Sougata Hazra, Jillian Anderson, and Chi Zhang

Advisor:

Prof. Ken Goodson, ME
goodson@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

AMEND/Heterogeneous Integration

Silicon-based vapor chamber heat spreader design and fabrication

Farid Soroush + Chi Zhang

Fellow:

Farid Soroush and Chi Zhang

Advisor:

Prof. Ken Goodson, ME
goodson@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Heterogeneous Integration

Low-Rank Training of Deep Neural Networks for Emerging Memory Technology

Albert Gural

Fellow:

Albert Gural

Advisor:

Prof. Boris Murmann, EE
murmann@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Computation for Data Analytics

Embedded PPG based AFIB Detection

Samiya Shimly

Fellow:

Samiya Shimly

Advisor:

Prof. Euan Ashley, Med/Cardiovascular Medicine
euan@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Bio Interfaces/Internet of Everything

Developing Pono, an open-source hardware model checker

Fellow:

Ahmed Irfan

Advisor:

Prof. Clark Barrett, CS
barrett@cs.stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Computation for Data Analytics

Flat lens and metasurface

Mingkun Chen

Fellow:

Mingkun Chen

Advisor:

Prof. Jonathan Fan, EE
jonfan@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Photonics and Quantum Technologies

Learning and control on nonlinear coupled dynamical systems

Andrei Kanavalau

Fellow:

Andrei Kanavalau

Advisor:

Prof. Sanjay Lall, EE
lall@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Computation for Data Analytics

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

Victoria Chen

Fellow:

Victoria Chen

Advisor:

Prof. Eric Pop, EE
epop@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

AMEND

Mixed-signal circuit design for low-energy machine learning platforms

Fellow:

Hank Yu

Advisor:

Prof. Boris Murmann, EE
murmann@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Internet of Everything

Multi-fidelity ensemble for uncertainty quantification and optimization

Fellow:

Mark Benjamin

Advisor:

Prof. Gianluca Iaccarino, ME
jops@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Computation for Data Analytics

Designing a high-efficiency RF power amplifier for plasma generation

Kawin Surakitbovorn

Fellow:

Kawin Surakitbovorn

Advisor:

Prof. Juan Rivas-Davila, EE
jmrivas@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Energy/Power Management Systems

Interactive Haptic simulation and robot teleportation

Shameek Ganguly

Fellow:

Shameek Ganguly

Advisor:

Prof. Oussama Khatib, CS
KHATIB@CS.stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Minimal energy wireless sensing and comms

Fellows:

Yinuo Xu

Advisor:

Prof. Tom Lee, EE
tomlee@ee.stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Internet of Everything

Distributed ray tracing

Brennan Shacklett

Fellow:

Brennan Shacklett

Advisors:

Prof. Kayvon Fatahalian, CS
kayvonf@stanford.edu
Prof. Pat Hanrahan, EE & CS
hanrahan@cs.stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Photonics and Quantum Technologies

Memory-centric computing

Robert Radway

Fellow:

Robert Radway

Advisor:

Prof. Subhasish Mitra, EE & CS
subh@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Computation for Data Analytics

A Python Embedded Hardware Construction Language Designed for Productivity, Performance and Correctness

Leonard Truong and Raj Setaluri

Fellow:

Leonard Truong and Raj Setaluri

Advisor:

Prof. Pat Hanrahan, EE & CS
hanrahan@cs.stanford.edu

 

Focus Area:

Design Productivity

Noisy Neural Network Compression for Analog Storage Devices

Berivan Isik

Fellow:

Berivan Isik

Advisor:

Prof. Tsachy Weissman, EE
tsachy@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Computation for Data Analytics

Exploring the accuracy of quantum simulators for quantum chemistry and developing new algorithms for quantum chemistry on quantum computers

Grace Johnson

Fellow:

Grace Johnson

Advisor:

Prof. Todd Martinez, Chemistry
Todd.Martinez@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Photonic and Quantum Technologies

Acoustic Emission Characterization of Thin Films

Chen Liu

Fellow:

Chen Liu

Advisor:

Prof. Debbie Senesky, Aero/Astro
dsenesky@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

AMEND

III-V High Electron Mobility Sensors

Fellow:

Anand Vikas Lalwani

Advisor:

Prof. Debbie Senesky, Aero/Astro
dsenesky@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Energy/Power Management Systems

Thermal management

Fellows:

Mohamadali Malakoutian

Advisor:

Prof. Srabanti Chowdhury, EE
srabanti@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Energy/Power Management Systems

SiC, GaN and Si technology comparison for high power RF plasma generators

Zikang Tong

Fellow:

Zikang Tong & Zhechi Ye

Advisor:

Prof. Juan Rivas, EE
jmrivas@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Energy/Power Management Systems

BEOL-compatible MOCVD of MoS2

Connor Bailey

Fellow:

Connor Bailey

Advisor:

Prof. Eric Pop, EE
epop@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

AMEND

Studying circuit design for neuromorphis computing using emerging memory devices

Fellow:

Shuhuan Liu

Advisor:

Prof. H.S.Philip Wong, EE
hspwong@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Computation for Data Analytics

AIOps Research

Akshay Agrawal

Fellows:

Akshay Agrawal & Shane Barratt

Advisor:

Prof. Stephen Boyd, EE
stephen.boyd@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Internet of Everythning/Computation for Data Analytics

Pattern and anomaly detection in financial data

Greg Zanotti

Fellows:

Greg Zanotti

Advisor:

Prof. Markus Pelger, MS&E
mpelger@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Computation for Data Analytics

Focusing on the issue of accurate and efficient object segmentation from video sequences

Fellow:

Junyoung Gwak

Advisor:

Prof. Silvio Savarese, CS
ssilvio@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

The modeling and understanding high frequency losses in SiC and GaN devices

Fellow:

Jia Zhuang

Advisors:

Prof. Juan Rivas, EE
jmrivas@stanford.edu
Prof. Jim Plummer, EE
plummer@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Energy/Power Management Systems

Mixed-Signal Deep Neural Networks

Fellow:

Rohan Doshi

Advisors:

Prof. Boris Murmann, EE
murmann@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Computation for Data Analytics

Wirelessly powered implantable ultrasonic imager

Ahmed Sawaby

Fellow:

Ahmed Sawaby and Geneva Ecola

Advisor:

Prof. Amin Arbabian, EE
arbabian@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Internet of Everything

Cortisol Sensing

Fellow:

Jaeho Park

Advisor:

Prof. Zhenan Bao, Chemical Engineering
zbao@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Internet of Everything

Agile Hardware

Fellows:

Gedeon Kabuya Nyengele

Advisor:

Prof. Mark Horowitz, CS&EE
horowitz@ee.stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Design Productivity

QED Evaluation

Saranyu Chattopadhyay

Fellow:

Saranyu Chattopadhyay

Advisors:

Prof. Clark Barrett, CS
barrettc@stanford.edu
Prof. Subhasish Mitra, EE & CS
subh@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Design Productivity/Computation for Data Analytics

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

Il-Kwon Oh

Fellow:

Il-Kwon Oh

Advisor:

Prof. Stacey Bent, MSE
sbent@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

AMEND

Low-jitter ADC's using Heterogeneous Integration

Fellow:

Athanasios Ramkaj

Advisors:

Prof. Boris Murmann, EE
murmann@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Heterogeneous Integration

High density power converters with Piezo-electric resonators

Fellow:

Weston Braun

Advisor:

Prof. Juan Rivas-Davila, EE
jmrivas@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Energy/Power Management Systems

Optimal computing organization - 3D vs 2D - for specific computing domains

Guenole Lallement/Massimo Giordano

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

Bio and magnetic interfaces

Neeraja Ravi

Fellow:

Neeraja Ravi

Advisor:

Prof. Shan Wang, MSE & EE
sxwang@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Bio Interfaces

RRAM Characterization for Deep Learning

Fellow:

Luke Upton

Advisor:

Prof. Boris Murmann, EE
murmann@stanford.edu

Focus Area:

Computation for Data Analytics