Stanford Sensors Research Directory
| Name | Description | Hardware/Sensors | Software and Data Analytics | Applications |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamid Aghajan |
Modeling social behavior through ambient intelligence, applied to designing smart building techniques in homes and offices |
Cameras and Imaging | Image Recognition, Wireless Sensor Networks | Energy Efficiency, Smart Buildings |
| Amin Arbabian |
Development of sensors for medical imaging and sensing, power delivery, RFID, and high frequency circuits and systems |
Biomedical Sensors, Communications Hardware | Human Health, Medicine | |
| Kevin Arrigo |
Role of marine microalgae in biogeochemical cycling and biogenic flux of CO2 into oceans and sediments; phytoplankton population through satellite remote sensing |
Environmental Sensors, Geophysical Sensing, Satellites and Remote Sensing | Environmental Monitoring, Harsh Environments | |
| Gregory Asner |
Monitoring tropical deforestation and forest degradation through remote sensors; map canopy function and biological diversity |
Environmental Sensors, Satellites and Remote Sensing | Data Visualization | Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environmental Monitoring |
| Banny Banerjee |
Studies sustainability and social change through platforms for design thinking |
Human Behavior, Sustainability | ||
| Zhenan Bao |
Biological and chemical sensors for nano-scale electronics, alternative energy, and biomedical applications |
Biomedical Sensors, Chemical Sensors, Environmental Sensors, Physical Sensors | Energy Storage, Environmental Monitoring, Harsh Environments, Human Health, Medicine, Renewable Energy | |
| Jim Barry |
Remotely operated vehicles to study physiological responses of organisms in ocean ecosystems |
Remotely Operated Vehicles | Climate Change, Oceans | |
| Biondo Biondi |
Mathematical algorithms to image and monitor subsurface structures and fluids by using seismological data. |
Biomedical Sensors, Physical Sensors | Human Health, Medicine | |
| David Camarillo |
Computer modeling for cancer diagosis and treatment, in vivo microscopy, and cell mechanics with applications in regenerative medicine |
Biomedical Sensors, Physical Sensors, Robotics | Human Health, Medicine | |
| Brian Cantwell |
Applications of fluid dynamics for sustainable fuel use in astronautics |
Aeronautics and Astronautics | ||
| Fu-Kuo Chang |
Developing sensors and sensor networks for materials - applications to electrical engineering, material science, intelligent structures |
Physical Sensors | Signal Processing | Structural Health Monitoring |
| Sigrid Close |
Use of remote sensing techniques to model space weather detection and modeling for spacecraft design |
Satellites and Remote Sensing | Aeronautics and Astronautics, Harsh Environments | |
| Craig Criddle |
Research and demonstration related to environmental biotechnology and water treatment remediation |
Electronic Sensors, Energy Conversion Devices | Environmental Monitoring, Hydrology, Sustainability | |
| Yi Cui |
Use of nanoparticle and nanowire sensors with electronic, environmental, and energy applications |
Electronic Sensors, Energy Conversion Devices | Energy Storage, Environmental Monitoring, Harsh Environments, Renewable Energy, Sustainability | |
| Greg Deierlein |
Development and application of nonlinear structural analysis methods and design criteria for constructed facilities |
Algorithms | Structural Health Monitoring | |
| Persi Diaconis |
Applications of probability modeling and theory |
Statistics | ||
| Michael Digonnet |
Advanced fiber optic gyroscopes, fiber hydrophones and microphones, and strain sensors; lasers and particle accelerarators |
Optical Sensors, Physical Sensors | Aeronautics and Astronautics, Oil and Gas E&P | |
| Dave Donoho | Signal Processing, Statistics | Communications | ||
| Rob Dunbar |
Instruments and methods for measurements in marine ecosystems with conservation, climate change, and chemistry |
Chemical Sensors, Environmental Sensors | Climate Change, Environmental Monitoring, Harsh Environments, Oceans | |
| Rob Dutton |
Computer aided bio-sensor design and silicon technolgy modeling for digital and analog circuits |
Biomedical Sensors, Electronic Sensors | Human Health | |
| Wolf B. Frommer |
Develops many biosensors for small molecules such as sugars, as well as hormones, neurotransmitters, and biosensors that measure the activity of proteins in vivo |
Biomedical Sensors, Cameras and Imaging | Databases | Human Health, Microscopy Biosensors |
| Hector Garcia-Molina |
Collection, storage, and analysis of data with applications in web analytics, crowdsourcing, electronic commerce |
Algorithms, Databases | ||
| Andrea Goldsmith |
Techniques, protocols, and designs for future wireless systems and networks including sensors and green networks |
Communications Software, Wireless Sensor Networks | Communications, Electric Grid | |
| Ronald Hanson |
Development of bio and reactive aerosols, propulsion technologies, diode laser sensing technologies with energy and chemical kinetics applications |
Chemical Sensors, Optical Sensors, Physical Sensors | Environmental Monitoring, Harsh Environments, Industrial Process Control | |
| Jerry Harris |
Sensing technolgies for monitoring sequestration of carbon dioxide, acoustical spectrosopy, and optoelectric devices with applications in reservoir management |
Chemical Sensors, Optical Sensors, Physical Sensors | Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Oil and Gas E&P | |
| Lynn Hildemann |
Use of sensors to evaluate the origins and effects of indoor and outdoor airborne particles on human exposure and health |
Environmental Sensors | Environmental Monitoring, Human Health | |
| Roland Horne |
Matching computer models to classes of reservoir responses including tracer analysis of fractures, well test analysis, optimation, and automated history matching with geothermal and petroleum engineering applications |
Algorithms, Data Visualization | Harsh Environments, Oil and Gas E&P | |
| Mark Horowitz |
Sensors with on-board memory, computations, and communcations with applications in bioimaging, biological modeling, computational photography, microfluidics, and smart memories |
Communications Hardware, Electronic Sensors | Human Health | |
| Roger Howe |
Sensors and electromechanical systems that use the control of surface and interface phenomena with applications in energy conversion, biosensors, and nanotechnology |
Electronic Sensors, Energy Conversion Devices | ||
| Tom Kenny |
Design and optimization of micromechanic structures and high performance sensors and timing references through silicon microfabrication techniques |
Energy Conversion Devices, Physical Sensors | ||
| Oussama Khatib |
Autonomous robots, human-centered robotics, human-friendly robot design, dynamic simulations, and haptic interactions |
Biomedical Sensors, Cameras and Imaging | Algorithms | Microscopy Biosensors |
| Butrus Khuri-Yakub |
Micromachined silicon sensors and actuators such as airborne and water immersion ultrasonic transducers, chemical/biological sensors, and in situ sensors for process monitoring and control of integrated circuit manufacturing |
Biomedical Sensors, Chemical Sensors, Electronic Sensors | Flow Measurement, Industrial Process Control, Ultrasound Imaging | |
| Anne Kiremidjian |
Design and implementation of wireless sensor networks for structural damage and health monitoring and algorithms |
Physical Sensors | Wireless Sensor Networks | Structural Health Monitoring |
| Peter Kitanidis |
Develops fast methods for data assimilation and uncertainty quantification |
Environmental Sensors, Geophysical Sensing, Hydraulic Sensors | Algorithms, Statistics | |
| Rosemary Knight |
Developing geophysical imaging techniques for evaluating geophysical processes and resources including groundwater |
Chemical Sensors, Geophysical Sensing | Algorithms, Image Recognition | Fluid Mechanics, Harsh Environments, Hydrology, Oil and Gas E&P |
| Eric Kool |
Creating sensors from synthetically modified DNA to distinguish disease-causing bacteria, environmental contaminants such as metal ions, and organic vapors |
Biomedical Sensors, Chemical Sensors, Environmental Sensors | Algorithms | Environmental Monitoring, Human Health, Medicine |
| Jeff Koseff |
Interaction between physical and biological systems in natural aquatic environments through environmental fluid mechanics and chemical sensing in marine environments |
Physical Sensors | Oceans | |
| Greg Kovacs |
Designs medical devices including physiologic monitors for clinical and aerospace medical applications |
Biomedical Sensors | Algorithms | Communications |
| Christos Kozyrakis |
Focus on the interactions between the hardware and software in computer systems architecture with a focus on parallelism, resource efficiency, and security |
Communications Hardware, Electronic Sensors | Algorithms, Databases, Security | Communications |
| Eric Lambin |
Use of remote sensing techniques and socioeconomic data to model human-environmental interactions and the effect of land change on human and environmental health. |
Environmental Sensors, Satellites and Remote Sensing | Algorithms, Databases | Biodiversity, Environmental Monitoring, Human Behavior, Human Health, Sustainability |
| Kincho Law |
Computing principles and techniques with applications to structural engineering and engineering informatics |
Electronic Sensors | Algorithms, Databases, Wireless Sensor Networks | Information Technology, Smart Buildings, Structural Health Monitoring |
| Jure Leskovec |
Focus on modeling large social and information networks with applications to large scale data, Web, and online media |
Algorithms, Databases, Statistics | Information Technology | |
| Phil Levis |
Developing sensing networks, wireless networks, and physical simulation that connect physical objects to the Internet |
Communications Hardware, Electronic Sensors, Physical Sensors | Statistics, Wireless Sensor Networks | Information Technology, Sustainability |
| David Lobell |
Use of remote sensing, GIS, and climate modeling to assess food security, crop yields, and the environmental consequences of agriculture |
Environmental Sensors, Satellites and Remote Sensing | Climate Change, Environmental Monitoring, Human Behavior, Sustainability | |
| Dick Luthy |
Study of geo-engineering techniques to remove organic contaminants and improve urban water infrastructure and environmental behavior |
Chemical Sensors, Environmental Sensors | Environmental Monitoring, Hydrology, Oceans, Renewable Energy, Sustainability | |
| Michael Mahoney |
Using random algorithms for large matrix operations with applications to genetics and information networks |
Algorithms, Data Visualization, Databases, Statistics | Aeronautics and Astronautics, Information Technology, Medicine | |
| Ali Mani |
Using computation and applied mathematical tools to inform issues of design, optimization, and control of fluids and transport processes |
Electronic Sensors | Algorithms, Communications Software, Databases, Statistics | Energy Storage, Fluid Mechanics |
| David Mazieres |
Computer systems that improve computer security including secure distributed file systems |
Electronic Sensors | Algorithms, Databases, Security | Information Technology |
| Stephen Monismith |
Estuarine hydrodynamics and mixing processes, flows over coral reefs, wind-wave turbulent flow in the ocean, density stratified fluids, and phytoplankton and benthic systems |
Environmental Sensors | Biodiversity, Environmental Monitoring, Fluid Mechanics and Turbulence, Hydrology, Oceans, Sustainability | |
| Boris Murmann |
Design of signal conditioning circuits for sensors, building blocks and data converters for high-speed communication systems, as well as proof-of-concept work for neuro-inspired and information-centric signal processing paradigms |
Electronic Sensors | Signal Processing | Communications |
| Ada Poon |
Using mathematical and electrical engineering concepts with applications to communication systems and biomedical technology and sensors |
Biomedical Sensors, Communications Hardware, Electronic Sensors, Physical Sensors | Communications Software, Signal Processing, Wireless Sensor Networks | Communications, Energy Efficiency, Medicine |
| Beth Pruitt |
Creation of tools and sensors that measure nanoscale mechanical behavior in harsh environments with applications to physiology, biology, stem cells, neuroscience, and cardiology |
Biomedical Sensors, Chemical Sensors, Environmental Sensors, Physical Sensors | Algorithms, Wireless Sensor Networks | Harsh Environments, Human Behavior, Medicine |
| Ram Rajagopal |
Use of demand-side data analytics to integrate and distribute renewable energy systems |
Electronic Sensors, Environmental Sensors | Algorithms | Electric Grid, Energy Storage, Environmental Monitoring, Human Behavior, Sustainability |
| Juan Santiago |
Use of micro and nano scale devices for genetics research and proteomics to develop lab-on-a-chip systems, microfluidics |
Biomedical Sensors, Chemical Sensors, Environmental Sensors | Algorithms, Image Recognition | Environmental Monitoring, Fluid Mechanics and Turbulence, Human Health |
| Chris Scholin |
Development and application of instruments and sensing technology to collect and analyze microorganisms in remote marine environments |
Chemical Sensors, Environmental Sensors, Physical Sensors, Robotics | Biodiversity, Environmental Monitoring, Harsh Environments, Oceans, Sustainability | |
| Debbie Senesky |
Synthesis of micro and nano scale sensing technology that operates and collects data in harsh physical conditions including space and hypersonic aircraft |
Electronic Sensors, Satellites and Remote Sensing | Aeronautics and Astronautics, Energy Efficiency, Harsh Environments | |
| Olav Solgaard |
Micro-optical systems combining photonic crystals, optical meta-materials, silicon photonics, and MEMS, for sensing, imaging, and optical manipulation |
Energy Conversion Devices, MEMS, Optical Sensors | Optical Fiber, Wireless Sensor Networks | Microscopy Biosensors, Renewable Energy |
| Sindy Tang |
Design and development of microfluidics, optofluidics, and micro-devices for lab-on-a-chip systems |
Biomedical Sensors, Chemical Sensors, Environmental Sensors, Optical Sensors, Physical Sensors | Environmental Monitoring, Fluid Mechanics, Human Health, Medicine, Oil and Gas E&P, Remote/inaccessible areas | |
| Hamdi Tchelepi |
Sensing technology to model flow and transport in natural porous media through algorithms and stochastic approaches for quantifying uncertainties |
Chemical Sensors, Geophysical Sensing | Algorithms, Databases | Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Fluid Mechanics, Oil and Gas E&P |
| Shan Wang |
Development and application of magnetic nanotechnology and information storage technology with applications in cell sorting, magnetic nanoparticle, nano-patterning, and spin electronic metals and sensors |
Biomedical Sensors, Electronic Sensors, Physical Sensors | Algorithms, Wireless Sensor Networks | Information Technology, Medicine |
| Jennifer Widom |
Data science technology including graph processing system, and 3X, a software tool that facilitates data visualization and organizes big data |
Algorithms, Data Visualization, Databases | Information Technology | |
| Howard Zebker |
Development of radar remote sensing techiques that faciliate Earth exploration from space, satellite remote sensing, digital signal processing, and propagation |
Electronic Sensors, Geophysical Sensing, Satellites and Remote Sensing | Wireless Sensor Networks | Aeronautics and Astronautics, Environmental Monitoring, Harsh Environments |
| Xiaolin Zheng |
Integration of combustion science with synthesis and high dimensional nanomaterials with applications in energy and environmental issues |
Energy Conversion Devices, Environmental Sensors, Physical Sensors | Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy | |
| Mark Zoback |
Understanding and modeing crust stress and mechanics, shale gas, tight gas and tight oil production, and geologic storage of carbon dioxide, and earthquakes |
Chemical Sensors, Geophysical Sensing | Harsh Environments, Human Behavior, Oil and Gas E&P |
