People

Aharon Kapitulnik, PI  

E-mail: aharonk@stanford.edu

CURRENT GROUP MEMBERS:

  Alan Fang, Research Staff

email:      afang@alumni.stanford.edu

Eylon Persky, Post-doctoral Fellow

email:     perskye1@stanford.edu

Qianni Jiang, Post-doctoral Fellow 

^{(Joint with I.R. Fisher's group)}

email:     qnjiang@stanford.edu

Erik Kountz, PhD Student

email:      ekountz@stanford.edu

Tiffany Paul, PhD Student

email:      tapaul@stanford.edu

 Xinyang (Victor) Zhang, PhD Student

email:      xinyangz@stanford.edu

David Saykin, PhD Student

email:      saykind@stanford.edu

STAFF:

Clora Yeung, Support staff 

email:     clora@stanford.edu

GROUP ALUMNI:

PhD Students:

• Kookrin Char (1989), Professor and Chair, (formerly Dean of Graduate Studies), Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Korea.
• David B. Mitzi (1990), Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University , NC.
• Julia W.P. Hsu (1990), Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Department of MS&E, TI Nanoelectronics Distinguished Chair- MS&E, University of Texas Dallas. 
• Michael R. Hahn (1993), Senior Director, Hardware Business Development, Microsoft Corp., Mt. View, CA.
• Jeffrey S. Urbach (1993), Professor of Physics, formerly Chair of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington DC.
• Louis W. Lombardo (1994), Founder, Teragon Research Inc., San Francisco, CA.
• Seungoh Ryu (1994), Chief Programmer, Founder: iStormApps, Math Game House LLC.
• Ali Yazdani (1994), Professor of Physics, Princeton University, NJ.
• Kathryn A. Moler (1995), Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, Vice Provost and Dean of Research, Stanford University.
• Steven J. Dodge (1997), Associate Professor of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
• Monica Hellerqvist (1998), Senior Product, Marketing and Project Manager, Lam Research, CA.
• Nadya Mason (2001), Professor of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.
• John Chiaverini (2002) Member of Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Lab., Cambridge, MA.
• Craig Howald (2003), Associate Professor of Physics, Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio.
• Sylvia Smullin (2005), R&D Specialist, Google X, Mountain View, CA.
• Myles A. Steiner (2006), Member of Technical Staff , National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO.
• David M. Weld (2007), Associate Professor of Physics, UC Santa Barbara. 
• Andrew A. Geraci (2007), Associate Professor of Physics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
• Alan C. Fang (2008), Research Scientist, SIMES, Stanford, CA.
• Jing Xia (2008), Associate Professor of Physics, University of California Irvine.
• Zhanybek Alpichshev (2012), Assistant Professor of Physics, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria.
• Nicholas Breznay (2013), Assistant Professor of Physics, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA.
• Li Zhang (2013), Member of Technical Staff, Div. of Panel, Process and Optics, Apple Computers Inc., CA.
• Hovnatan Karapetyan (2013), Data Scientist, Armenia.
• Alexander D. Fried (2014), Senior Data Scientist, automotiveMastermind Inc., NY.
• Elizabeth R. Schemm (2014), Research Associate, GLAM, Stanford, CA.
• Qi Yang (2018), Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard University.
• Jiecheng Zhang (2020), Post-doctoral Fellow, Stanford University.
• Sejoon Lim (2021), Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.
• Sam Mumford (2021), Member of Technical Staff, HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA.

Post-Doctoral Fellows:

• Philippe Fluckiger, Director of Operations, EPFL Center of NanoTechnology, Switzerland.
• Patrick Fournier, Professor, University of Sherbrooke, Canada.
• Lior Klein, Professor, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
• Damian Zech, COO Private Banking France & Belgium at Credit Suisse.
• Susanne Döttinger,  
• Merav Dolev, Director of Business Development, RENVU, LLC.
• Eli Levenson-Falk, Assistant Professor, USC, Los Angeles, CA.
• Di S. Wei, Data Scientist, Climax Foods, CA.