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PhD Students
Talal Al-Attar
| alattar@stanford.edu |
Talal Al-Attar received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Kuwait University in 1995 and 1997 respectively. Talal's MS thesis was on Gaussian beam splitting by Chiral Prism.
Erik Anderson
| erik.anderson@stanford.edu | (650) 725-3383 (Fax) |
Erik grew up in the South San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from Brigham Young University in 2002 with a M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Mathematics. He came to Stanford in 2002 where he is currently a PhD candidate in the department of Electrical Engineering. His research involves electronic biosensors and using electrical detection methodologies to interrogate micro-arrays. Erik is collaborating with the Stanford Genome Technology center in this effort.
Erik has done consulting work for various companies in analog circuit design and optics, including the optimization of pixel optics for SMaL Camera Technologies (acquired by Cypress Semiconductor). He has worked on a project for the Guidant Corporation (acquired by Boston Scientific) in designing a system to measure the drug release rate and profile from drug-eluting stents. Erik received First Place in the Optical Research Associates student design competition in 2005 for designing compact imaging optics for a colonoscope. He has several patents pending.
Erik's hobbies include investing, business, traveling, hiking, and cycling.
Jonathan Daniels
| SGTC 151 | 650-804-5836 |
| jon.daniels@stanford.edu | http://www.stanford.edu/~jsdaniel |
Jon was born in Utah and grew up in Austin, Texas. After completing his A.B. degree in Chemistry and Physics at Harvard College in 2002, Jon came to Stanford, earning a M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2004. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. He has completed internships at Rice University, IBM Almaden Research Center, and Palo Alto Research Center (formerly Xerox PARC). His main research interest is electronic biosensors, and he is collaborating with several research groups to create a protein sensor array using electrical detection. Jon's hobbies include backpacking, ultimate frisbee, cooking, and genealogical research.
Ali Kiaei
| CIS Bldg. Room 20 | (650) 725-4486 |
| kiaei@smirc.stanford.edu | http://www.stanford.edu/~kiaei |
Ali Kiaei received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1998 and the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 2001. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University. His current research interest is high-speed serial communication systems. Ali Kiaei was the recipient of the 1999 Stanford graduate fellowship (SGF). He was awarded the Bronze Medal of the 25th International Physics Olympiad, Beijing, China.
Moon-Jung Kim
| CIS Bldg. Room 63 | (650) 725-4538 |
| moonie@smirc.stanford.edu | (650) 725-3383 (Fax) |
Moon
received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University in
1994 and 1996, respectively. She did her Master's degree in the area of
optoelectronic circuits. After receiving her Master's degree, she was a
Research Assistant working at the same university. Moon came to
Stanford in 1997. She is currently interested in the area of high-speed
optical links. In her spare time, Moon enjoys travelling and hiking.
She is also taking private voice lessons at Stanford.
Justin Snapp
| CIS Bldg. Room 026 | (650) 799-3269 |
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(650) 725-3383 (Fax) |
Justin Snapp was born in 1982 and grew up in Seattle, Washington. He came to Stanford in 2000 as undergraduate
and received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2004.
Justin is a recipient of a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship and is currently a Ph.D. candidate investigating adapting classical vacuum tube microwave electronics to microfabrication techniques to enable practical terahertz sources.
Beyond electrical engineering, Justin is an avid sailor, enjoys the "technical art" of photography and has an active interest in politics and history.
Isaac Martinez
| CIS Bldg. Room 132c | |
| gelito12 [at] stanford [dot] edu |
Isaac was born in 1976 and received his B.S from the ITESM-CCM (Monterrey Institute of Technology and Advanced Studies, Mexico City Campus) in 1999 and his MASc from the University of Toronto in 2003 (Thesis and research on Diamond-Like Carbon thin films). He enrolled at Stanford in 2004 and is currently a PhD candidate at Stanford, exploring the feasibility of integrated front ends for network analysis in CMOS technology.
Regarding work experience he has completed assignments at The University of Toronto, PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, formerly Xerox PARC), Digeo Inc. and Agilent Technologies. All his activites have been related to the area of RF electronics, Mixed-Signal integrated circuits, measurement and test systems, low power analog electronics and embedded applications.
In his spare time he enjoys fixing old test equipment (specially Tektronix and HP/Agilent), running and building experiment at his home-lab, swimming, piano playing, cooking and entrepreneurship activities.
Siddharth Seth
| CIS Bldg. Room 034 | (650) 725-8579 (Office Phone) |
| sidseth [at] stanford [dot] edu | http://www.stanford.edu/~sidseth/ |
Siddharth Seth was born in Malegaon, India, in 1985. He received the B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 2006 and joined Stanford University where he is now a PhD student at the Department of Electrical Engineering.
He was awarded the Dr. B. C. Roy Memorial Gold Medal at IIT Kharagpur in 2006 for best all-round performance in academics and extra-Curricular activities and the Institute Silver Medal for the highest GPA among the graduating students of his Department. At Stanford University, he has been awarded the Robert Bosch Stanford Graduate Fellowship.
Siddharth has worked at Microsoft Research, National Semiconductor & Broadcom Corporation for his internships. His research interests are RF and mixed signal circuit design and wireless communications. When he is not working, he loves spending all his time with his best friend and family.
Anand Dixit
| CIS Bldg. Room 029 | (408) 276-6335 |
| adixit [at] stanford [dot] edu |
Anand Dixit received the B.Tech degree from Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur, India, and M.S. degree from Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA, both in electrical engineering, in 1996 and
1998, respectively. He is currently employed as a Staff Engineer at Sun
Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA and is also pursuing Ph.D. degree in
electrical engineering at Stanford University, Stanford, CA. His
research interests include numerical modeling of RF devices for
terahertz applications.
From 1998 to 2000, he worked at National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA, where he worked on touch screen controller, PLL and other analog designs for the Information Appliances group. Since 2000, he has been with Sun Microsystems, where he has been responsible for the I/O designs on UltraSparc III and UltraSparc IV processors. His recent work includes high-speed interface design, soft error modeling and processor test/debug. He also holds a US patent on PLL lock detector.
Mr. Dixit was a recipient of the National Talent Search Scholarship from the Government of India between 1990 and 1996.
Evelyn Mintarno