FMA projects from 2021-2022 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 and Modeling of Miniature Silicon Vapor Chamber Heat Spreaders
Fellow:
Jillian Anderson, Sougata Hazra, and Chi Zhang
Advisor:
Prof. Ken Goodson, ME
goodson@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
AMEND
Methods for Distributed Optimization
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Stephen Boyd, EE
Stephen.Boyd@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Design and thermal modeling of a wearable heat flux sensor for body core temperature measurement
Fellow:
Yimeng Qin, Yujui Lin, and Heungdong Kwon
Advisor:
Prof. Ken Goodson, ME
goodson@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Heterogeneous Integration
Scene Understanding
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Jiajun Wu, CS
jiajunwu@cs.stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Embedded PPG based AFIB Detection
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Euan Ashley, Med/Cardiovascular Medicine
euan@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Bio Interfaces
Flat lens and metasurface
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Jonathan Fan, EE
jonfan@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Photonics and Quantum Technologies
Learning and control on nonlinear coupled dynamical systems
Fellow:
Andrei Kanavalau
Advisor:
Prof. Sanjay Lall, EE
lall@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Boron Nitride and Other Films for Oxidation and Corrosion Protection
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Eric Pop, EE & MSE
epop@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
AMEND
Mixed-Signal Deep Neural Networks
Fellow:
Advisors:
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
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Juan Rivas-Davila, EE
jmrivas@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Energy/Power Management Systems
Robot Design and Control Strategies for Lifting and Unloading Heavy Objects in Simulation
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Oussama Khatib, CS & EE
KHATIB@CS.stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Experiment Validation of Lifting and Unloading Heavy Objects with Physical Robots
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Oussama Khatib, CS & EE
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
Memory-centric computing
Fellow:
Robert Radway
Advisor:
Prof. Subhasish Mitra, EE & CS
subh@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Architecture and applications of gain cell memory
Fellow:
Wei-Chen (Harry) Chen
Advisor:
Prof. H.S.Philip Wong, EE
hspwong@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
AMEND
Compression for VR
Fellow:
Pulkit Tandon, Brooke Krajancich, and Yuhan Deng
Advisors:
Prof. Tsachy Weissman, EE
tsachy@stanford.edu
Prof. Gordon Wetzstein, EE
gordon.wetzstein@stanford.edu
Prof. Keith Winstein, CS & EE
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, CS & EE
hanrahan@cs.stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Photonics and Quantum Technologies
New concepts for dynamic manipulation of light
Fellow:
Fenghao Xu
Advisor:
Prof. Mark Brongersma, MSE & Applied Physics
Brongersma@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Photonics and Quantum Technologies
Advanced light emisssion control
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Mark Brongersma, MSE & Applied Physics
Brongersma@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Photonics and Quantum Technologies
Dynamic wavefront control of light with plasmonic metasurfaces
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Mark Brongersma, MSE & Applied Physics
Brongersma@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Photonics and Quantum Technologies
Dynamic wavefront control of light fields with guided resonators
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Mark Brongersma, MSE & Applied Physics
Brongersma@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Photonics and Quantum Technologies
Noisy Neural Network Compression for Analog Storage Devices
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Tsachy Weissman, EE
tsachy@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Acoustic Emission Characterization of Thin Films
Fellow:
Katheryn Korengay
Advisor:
Prof. Debbie Senesky, Aero/Astro
dsenesky@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
AMEND
Automatically Extracting Formal Processor Models from Verilog RTL for Scalable Hardware Security Verification
Fellow:
Nicholas Mosier
Advisor:
Prof. Caroline Trippel, CS & EE
trippel@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Design Productivity
SiC, GaN and Si technology comparison for high power RF plasma generators
Fellow:
Zikang Tong and Zhechi Ye
Advisor:
Prof. Juan Rivas-Davila, EE
jmrivas@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Energy/Power Management Systems
Nanostructured antireflection coasting based on optically-resonant nanostructures
Fellow:
Nayeun Lee
Advisor:
Prof. Mark Brongersma, MSE & Applied Physics
Brongersma@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Photonics and Quantum Technologies
Dynamic control of light fields with tunable metasurfaces
Fellow:
Qitong Li
Advisor:
Prof. Mark Brongersma, MSE & Applied Physics
Brongersma@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Photonics and Quantum Technologies
BEOL-compatible MOCVD of MoS2
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Eric Pop, EE & MSE
epop@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
AMEND
Studying circuit design for neuromorphis computing using emerging memory devices
Fellow:
Shuhan Liu
Advisor:
Prof. H.S.Philip Wong, EE
hspwong@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Prediction and localization of cloud AIOps issues using stochastic optimization methods
Fellow:
Eric Sager Luxenberg and Tetiana Parshakova
Advisor:
Prof. Stephen Boyd, EE
Stephen.Boyd@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Anomaly Detection
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Markus Pelger, MS&E
mpelger@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Boosting black box video codecs via preprocessing
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Tsachy Weissman, EE
tsachy@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Analog Layout Automation Using Digital Place & Route Tools
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Boris Murmann, EE
murmann@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Design Productivity
The modeling and understanding high frequency losses in SiC and GaN devices
Fellow:
Jia Zhuang
Advisors:
Prof. Juan Rivas-Davila, EE
jmrivas@stanford.edu
Prof. Jim Plummer, EE
plummer@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Energy/Power Management Systems
Cortisol Sensing
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Zhenan Bao, ChemE
zbao@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Bio Interfaces
Diagnostic tools to assess retired batteries’ health
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Simona Onori, ERE
sonori@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Energy/Power Management Systems
Exploring Quantum Algorithms with Approximate Simulations on Classical Hardware
Fellow:
Roman Ellerbrock & Hayley Weir
Advisor:
Prof. Todd Martinez, Chemistry
Todd.Martinez@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Photonics and Quantum Technologies
Unsupervised skill discovery from expert demonstrations and active teaching of these skills to humans in complex dynamical tasks
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Dorsa Sadigh, CS & EE
dorsa@cs.stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
QED Evaluation
Fellow:
Advisors:
Prof. Clark Barrett, CS
barrettc@stanford.edu
Prof. Subhasish Mitra, EE & CS
subh@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Design Productivity
Toward 2D-FETs with sub-1 nm EOT
Fellow:
Jung-Soo Ko
Advisor:
Prof. Eric Pop, EE & MSE
epop@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Heterogeneous Integration
Surface engineering for selective deposition
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Stacey Bent, MSE/EE/ChemE
sbent@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
AMEND
Formal Methods for Safe Autonomous Systems
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Clark Barrett, CS
barrettc@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Learning Functional Models of Sensor-based Systems
Fellow:
Can Wang
Advisor:
Prof. Mark Horowitz, EE & CS
horowitz@ee.stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Design Productivity
Low-jitter ADC's using Heterogeneous Integration
Fellow:
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
Fellows:
Dennis Rich and Anna Kasperovich
Advisor:
Prof. Subhasish Mitra, EE & CS
subh@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Thermal management studies
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Srabanti Chowdhury, EE
srabanti@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Bio and magnetic interfaces
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Shan Wang, MSE & EE
sxwang@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Bio Interfaces
Circuit and P&R experiments for devices in the backend
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Subhasish Mitra, EE & CS
subh@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
Thermal modeling, engineering and characterization of the 3D chip back end-of-line (BEOL)
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Ken Goodson, ME
goodson@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Heterogeneous Integration
RRAM Characterization for Deep Learning
Fellow:
Advisor:
Prof. Boris Murmann, EE
murmann@stanford.edu
Focus Area:
Computation for Data Analytics
