Faculty and Research

Research Archives

2009
Chris Edwards, ME	A new power plant design could keep emissions of coal burning out of the air by keeping them trapped in brackish aquifer water.	View »
Stephen Quake, BIO	Stanford professor sequences his entire genome at low cost, with small team.	View »
Mark Levoy, CS	Giving people total control of a digital camera’s hardware and software could lead to an explosion of innovation in photography. That’s why Stanford researchers have created an open source device, called “Frankencamera.”	View »
Mark Brongersma, MSE	A new study shows how to make optimal use of the light-absorbing properties of incredibly thin germanium wires.	View »
Terman Awards	Terman Awards celebrate top seniors, their schoolteachers and their enduring relationship	View »
Sustainable Aviation	Air travel is likely to triple in the next few decades. To minimize the environmental impact of that growth, Stanford aeronautical engineers have begun a wide-ranging research and teaching program.	View »
Karl Deisseroth, BIO	About the only thing doctors have understood about deep-brain stimulation, which is widely used to treat Parkinson’s disease symptoms, is that somehow it works for many patients.	View »
Michael Genesereth, CS	Imagine that you have just drawn the short straw at work and must now plan a surprise birthday party for your division’s longtime vice president.	View »
Aaron Lindenberg, MSE	At the atomic scale, all kinds of natural and technological phenomena occur on the time scale of quadrillionths of a second.	View »
Tom Byers, MS&E; Tina Seelig, STVP	Entrepreneurship program wins recognition	View »
Gill Bejerano, CS	Mysterious snippets of DNA withstand eons of evolution, computer analysis shows	View »
2008
Craig Peters, PhD Student, MSE	The next big breakthrough in solar energy won’t come to the uncreative or easily frustrated.	View »
Philip Levis, CS; Vladlen Koltun, CS	Research aims to make ‘virtual worlds’ as world wide as the Web	View »
Stacey Bent, ChemE	Nanotechnology research could take the cost out of catalysis	View »
Scott Delp, BioE	Simulation software off to a fast start as a means of studying human motion	View »
Jim Sweeney, MS&E; John Weyant, MS&E;	Engineers analyze the economics of California’s greenhouse gas goals	View »
Robert Dutton, EE	Transistor aging research can keep chips working longer, reduce early breakdowns	View »
David Miller, EE	Prismatic Parameters: Professor discerns fundamental limits of optical components	View »
Daphne Koller, CS	Intelligent software can help biologists interpret tremendous amounts of data.	View »
Ray Levitt, CEE	Sustainability initiative expands to encompass the environment we build.	View »
Bill Dally, CS; Mark Horowitz, EE	Lean machines: Research aims to produce more efficient computer chips	View »
Engineering Therapies for Human Health, BioE	Bioengineers at Stanford are making proteins to fight infections and cancer.	View »
Shanhui Fan, EE; Roger Howe, EE	Squeezing light into small spaces a feat of physics	View »
2007
Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency	Designing and constructing energy efficient buildings requires better tools and technologies.	View »
Sebastian Thrun, CS	Junior the robot car finished a strong second in the DARPA Urban Challenge.	View »
Christopher Jacobs, ME	Stanford researchers have discovered that strong bones may depend on tiny hairs.	View »
Subhasish Mitra, EE	Algorithm may help chipmakers work with tangles of nanotubes.	View »
Ken Salisbury, CS	Project aims to accelerate development of personal robotics.	View »
Howard Zebker, EE	Monitoring changes in polar ice caps is vital for understanding our fragile environment, but it’s too hard to do directly.	View »
Margaret Brandeau, MS&E	The policy response to the HIV epidemic affects thousands of lives.	View »
Bruce Clemens, MSE	Hydrogen faces hurdles to becoming a clean energy source. Nanotechnology advances may help make the promised "Hydrogen Economy" a reality	View »
Nick McKeown, EE	How should the Internet look in 15 years? A lot different, says a team of researchers who are taking a nothing-is-sacred approach to rethinking the global computer network's infrastructure	View »
Richard Luthy, CEE	After defying cleanup for decades, toxins may yield to new approach	View »
Nick Melosh, MSE	Researchers can now demonstrate electronic control over important protein and molecular activity. This emerging union of technology and biochemistry could have important applications in health and biology research.	View »
Butrus (Pierre) Khuri-Yakub, EE	Microelectronics and nanotechnology may deliver a versatile new way to see into the body. Research on “photoacoustic” imaging could help bring a key diagnostic technology to patients.	View »
2006
David Mazieres, CS	Perhaps it is time for computers to have HiStar, a new Unix-like operating system that pares trust among software programs down to a bare minimum.	View »
Sarah Billington, CEE Craig Criddle, CEE	Can new building materials save trees, reduce global warming and provide energy? Stanford engineers are developing and testing biocomposites to do all that.	View »
Chaitan Khosla, ChemE	Fighting Celiac disease is a challenge of chemistry and Chemical engineering professor Chaitan Khosla and his group are making great advances in meeting it.	View »
Krishna Saraswat, EE Paul McIntyre, MSE	Silicon will struggle to deliver further advances in nanoelectronics, but help is on the way. Researchers led by electrical engineering Professor Krishna Saraswat are reviving the use of the element germanium to keep advances coming in computer chips.	View »
Krishna Shenoy, EE	New hope for paralyzed patients exists at the intersection of information technology and medicine. Researchers at Stanford have significantly advanced technology to control computers directly from the brain.	View »
Martin Reinhard, CEE	Fresh water is a scarce resource in high demand. Through his study of urban river systems, Martin Reinhard helps water districts evaluate new options for safely meeting a variety of needs.	View »
Jennifer Cochran, BioE	Stanford bioengineers take research from the benchtop to the bedside. Take for example, the treatment bioengineering Assistant Professor Jennifer Cochran is developing with surgery professors based on her enhanced protein for healing skin wounds.	View »
Shan Wang, MSE	What is common to cancer detection and the future of computing? They are both applications of breakthrough work in magnetic nanotechnology underway in the lab of MSE and EE Associate Professor Shan Wang.	View »
Jennifer Widom, CS	Uncertain information is part of life and therefore needs to be part of technology. A new database system that accounts for data’s uncertainty and origin could enable applications in science, commerce and even fighting crime.	View »
Reginald Mitchell, ME	Coal combustion can be cleaner than you might think. ME Associate Professor Reginald Mitchell researches a variety of ways to make coal a clean source of energy for a growing world.	View »
Stephen Quake, BioE	‘Microfluidic’ integrated circuits can revolutionize biology just like microelectronic integrated circuits revolutionized information. Stanford now has a foundry for making these “labs on a chip.”	View »
Kenneth Goodson, ME	Nanotechnology innovations have to work in practice, not just on paper. By studying the heat generated in transistors, ME Professor Kenneth Goodson provides crucial guidance for electrical engineers.	View »
2005
Andrew Ng, CS	Stanford researchers have begun building a robot smart enough to be a personal aide. The artificial intelligence and robotics experts hope to help the elderly and disabled and to revolutionize their field.	View »
Fritz Prinz, ME	With some breakthoughs, fuel cells will power future cars without hurting the environment. Fritz Prinz’group has recently made one such advance.	View »
Jim Swartz, ChemE	Harnessing the machinery of cells to engineer protein filaments could give doctors the ability to grow new tissues for patients and may have future applications in nanotechnology and materials.	View »
Jelena Vuckovic, EE	Jelena Vuckovic's work in "nanophotonics" is helping ensure a bright future for computing and communications. Recent innovations have applications that industry could need soon.	View »
John Mitchell, CS; Dan Boneh, CS	Two Stanford computer scientists are fighting “phishing,” an online con that tricks users into giving away their most sensitive Web passwords.	View »
Dick Luthy, CEE; Gil Masters, CEE	Sustainable living: Stanford plans to build an Experimental Green Dorm	View »
Karl Deisseroth, BioE	Precision psychiatry: Engineering therapies for better mental health	View »
Kyeongjae Cho, ME	Stanford software brings precision and practicality to nanotechnology	View »
Mark Brongersma, MSE	Are plasmonics circuitry wave of future?	View »
Scott Delp, BioE; Russ Altman, BioE	Engineers have long been involved in developing ways to gather biomedical information. But the explosion of data available… now makes finding new computational techniques "fundamental to advancing biomedical science."	View »
Lynn Orr, Earth Sciences; Chris Edwards, ME	"If you think back to the energy crises of the 1970s, there were lots of guesses about what the situation was going to be like right now, and they were all pretty much wrong."	View »
David A.B. Miller, EE	Ginzton Lab Director David Miller’s own research interests include using optics in communications and sensing systems, and he finds ultracold atoms filled with potential.	View »
Cal Quate, EE; Hongjie Dai, Chemistry	Quate’s group… is working on increasing the speed of scanning probe microscopes by creating arrays of hundreds of cantilevers on a single 4-inch wafer of silicon, each cantilever holding a scanning probe and its tip.	View »