Dr. Kunal Mukherjee is an assistant professor in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford. He has been an assistant professor in the Materials department at UC Santa Barbara (2016-2020), held postdoctoral appointments at IBM TJ Watson Research Center (2016) and MIT (2015), and worked as a transceiver engineer at Finisar (2009-2010).
Awarded in 2025
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Juan Santiago (Mechanical Engineering) and Eric Shaqfeh (Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering)
Awarded in 2014
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisors: Dwight Nishimura (Electrical Engineering) and Shreyas Vasanawala (Radiology)
Dr. Kyle Daniels obtained his BS in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland College Park in 2010, conducting undergraduate research with Dr. Dorothy Beckett, PhD. He obtained his PhD in Biochemistry with a certificate in Structural Biology and Biophysics. His dissertation is titled "Kinetics of Coupled Binding and Conformational Change in Proteins and RNA" and was completed in the laboratory of Dr. Terrence G. Oas, PhD. Dr. Daniels performed postdoctoral training with Dr. Wendell A.
Home Department: Structural Biology
Faculty Advisor: Roger Kornberg
Talk Title: Architecture of interphase chromosomes
Event: 2014 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on Nuclear Organization & Function
Awarded in 2024
Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisors: James Zou (Biomedical Data Science) and Joseph Wu (Medicine – Cardiovascular Medicine), Radiology)
