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Geun Ho Ahn
Postdoctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering
BioI am a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, specializing in integrated photonics, material sciences, and computational optimization to develop innovative photonic-electronic systems for optical interconnects, metrology, and quantum science.
I earned my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where I worked with Professor Jelena Vuckovic as a SGF fellow and FMA fellow on integrated photonics system through heterogeneous integration and photonic inverse design. -
Zherui Han
Postdoctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering
BioZherui Han received his Ph.D. (2024) in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, and B.S. (2019) in Energy and Power Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. He is a recipient of Purdue's Ross Fellowship and Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship. He is now a postdoc at Stanford developing theory for thermal and electronic transport in 2D systems and devices. His prior works include first-principles modeling of phonon dynamics.
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Yifan Hou
Postdoctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering
BioI am a Post Doctoral researcher working with Prof. Shuran Song at Stanford Electric Engineering. Prior to joining Stanford, I spent three years as an Applied Scientist at Amazon Robotics working on the Stow project. I obtained my PhD and MS degrees from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, obtained BoE from the department of Automation at Tsinghua University. I had also spent time interning at Toyota Research Institute and MIT.
I work on robotic manipulation. I am currently interested in the intersection of data-driven visual motor policies and model based compliance control. -
Mohamadali Malakoutian
Postdoctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering
BioMohamadali is an experienced Postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University with a demonstrated history of working in high-power high-frequency transistors, all-diamond diodes, and diamond integration for thermal management, III-V wide bandgap semiconductors, integrated microsystems including MEMS/NEMS devices, and microfluidic channels. He is an expert in fab process design-integration, process and device modeling (Athena, Atlas), thin-film deposition techniques (Evaporation, Sputtering, PVD, ALD, and PECVD), dry etching (ICP/RIE etching of Diamond, AlN, SiN, Al2O3, SiO2), wet etching (bulk Si micromachining), and single-crystalline/polycrystalline diamond growth. He is currently working on the growth, fabrication, and characteristics of GaN HEMTs with diamond integrated for thermal management to solve the self-heating problem of mm-wave devices.
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Shayan Mohajer Hamidi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsReasoning in large language models (LLMs) and improving their systematic generalization
Post-training and fine-tuning methods for alignment, reliability, and efficiency
Autonomous agent architectures built on top of foundation models
Generative modeling with diffusion models and their multimodal applications
Theory and optimization methods for modern deep learning systems -
Mete Muslu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering
BioA. Mete Muslu received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2018 and 2020, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2025. His doctoral research focused on developing single- and two-phase cooling solutions for integrated power electronics packages and multi-functional cold plates. His current research interests include understanding device-level multi-physics and developing integrated thermal management solutions spanning from the chip to the package level for high-performance computing and power applications.
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Tara Peña
Postdoctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering
BioTara Peña is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, where she is working with Prof. Eric Pop and is supported by the NSF MPS-Ascend postdoctoral fellowship. Peña received her Ph.D. (2023) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from the University of Rochester, where she won the university-wide Provost’s Fellowship then the nationwide NSF GRFP award. Before obtaining her doctorate, she earned a M.S. degree in ECE from the University of Rochester (2019) and a B.S. degree in Physics from Adelphi University (2017). Peña’s research interests include strain engineering nanomaterials to uncover advanced device structures.
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Richelle Smith
Postdoctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering
BioRichelle L. Smith is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University with Professor Tom Lee. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2017, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2019 and 2024, respectively.
Her research interests include analog/mixed-signal circuit design and energy-efficient systems, with a focus on phase-domain communications and computing. Recent projects encompass oscillatory computing for combinatorial optimization, quantum computing emulation with oscillator circuits, brain-inspired/neuromorphic circuit design, as well as wireline transceivers and phase-domain/edge modulation signaling.
She has held internship positions at Linear Technology, Rambus Labs, Stanford Brains in Silicon Lab, TDK-InvenSense, and Silicon Laboratories. She holds 5 U.S. patents. Dr. Smith serves as a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—Part I: Regular Papers and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—Part II: Express Briefs.
Selected Awards:
• USC Trustee Full Tuition Scholarship, 2013–2017
• Rambus Innovator of the Future Scholarship, 2013
• Tau Beta Pi Forge No. 42 Scholarship, 2015
• Barry Goldwater Scholarship, 2016
• Astronaut Scholarship, 2016
• USC Discovery Scholar Prize, 2017
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2017–2022
• Stanford Graduate Fellowship (Sang Samuel Wang Scholar), 2017–2022
• Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award, 2019
• Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship, 2021
• ARCS Foundation Northern California Fellowships (William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation Scholar), 2022–2024
• IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award, 2022–2023
