School of Engineering
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Tony Zahtila
Postdoctoral Scholar, Mechanical Engineering
BioI am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Turbulence Research.
I received my PhD in Australia from the University of Melbourne in 2023.
My PhD research focused on the physics and computing strategies of multiphase flows. More recently, my interests are in multi-fidelity simulation ensembles and uncertainty quantification. -
Rozie Zangeneh
Physical Science Research Scientist
BioDr. Rozie Zangeneh is a physical science research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. She develops and utilizes scientific computational tools and conducts massively parallel computations to study detailed physical processes in these systems and develops data-driven low-order models for affordable computation of highly turbulent systems.
Rozie received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maine. Her primary research interests include turbulence modeling (LES and RANS), data-driven and reduced-order models, high-speed aero-thermodynamics, and the aerodynamics of wind turbines. -
Hanfeng Zhai
Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2023
BioWorking on combining multiscale and multiphysics computational modeling with scientific machine learning and design optimization for mechanical and materials design in various engineering fields in biomedicine, semiconductors, and manufacturing. Previous works include Bayesian optimization for antibiofilm surfaces, porous metamaterials, physics-informed learning for bubble dynamics, molecular dynamics of graphene, etc. Have industrial experience in multiscale modeling for semiconductor manufacturing at Tokyo Electron.
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Renee Zhao
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering
BioRuike Renee Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, where she directs the Soft Intelligent Materials Laboratory. Originally from the historic city of Xi'an, she earned her BS from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2012. She then pursued Solid Mechanics at Brown University, obtaining her MS in 2014 and PhD in 2016. Following her doctoral studies, she completed postdoctoral training at MIT (2016–2018) before serving as an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University (2018–2021).
Renee’s research focuses on developing stimuli-responsive soft composites for multifunctional robotic systems with integrated shape-changing, assembly, sensing, and navigation capabilities. By integrating mechanics, material science, and advanced material manufacturing, her work enables innovations in soft robotics, miniaturized biomedical devices, robotic surgery, origami systems, active metamaterials, and general deployable morphing structures.
Her contributions have been recognized with honors and awards, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA, 2025), ARO Early Career Program (ECP) Award (2023), AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award (2023), Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty (2022), ASME Henry Hess Early Career Publication Award (2022), ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal (2022), ASME Applied Mechanics Division Journal of Applied Mechanics Award (2021), NSF CAREER Award (2020), and ASME Applied Mechanics Division Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Award (2018). She is also recognized as a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow and was named one of MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35.
