| Modertor:
Professor Juan G. Santiago, Mechanical Engineering
Department, Stanford University |
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Juan
G. Santiago |
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Prof.
Juan G. Santiago has Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(UIUC). At UIUC, he received four fellowships as
a doctoral candidate (including fellowships from
NSF and Exxon Corp.), and a UIUC Teaching Fellow
Award. He was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff
at the Aerospace Corporation ('95 - '97), where
his work included the development of flow diagnostics
for micronozzles. Prof. Santiago received a Ford
Foundation Postodoctoral Fellowship ('97), and worked
as a Research Scientist at UIUC's Beckman Institute
('97 - '98). Santiago is an Associate Professor
in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford.
He specializes in micro-scale fluid mechanics, micro-scale
optical flow diagnostics, and microfluidic system
design. As a faculty member, he has received a Frederick
Emmons Terman Fellowship ('98-'01), won the National
Inventor's Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Competition
('01), and was awarded a National Science Foundation
PECASE Award ('03-'08). He is the director of the
Stanford Microfluidics Laboratory. |
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