Principal Investigator

Dana Weinstein

Dana joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in August 2009 as Assistant Professor. She is also a member of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories. Dana received her B.A. in Physics from UC Berkeley in 2004, where she worked on ultra-fast X-ray streak camera design at the Advanced Light Source. She then moved to Cornell University, where she completed her Ph.D. in Applied Physics in 2009, working on RF Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS).

Graduate Students

Radhika Marathe

Radhika is currently a graduate student in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. She completed her high school education in Pune, India in 2005 and moved to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for her undergraduate studies. At Caltech, she worked with Professor Axel Scherer in Analyzing Pushup Pneumatic Valves in Microfluidic Devices as a SURF student which developed into her senior thesis. She completed her B.S. with Honors in Electrical Engineering in 2009.

Wentao Wang

Wentao joined the Mechanical Engineering department graduate program in 2009. He graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2009. He is interested in the area of RF MEMS, particularly CMOS compatible micro-resonators.

Laura Popa

Laura joined the Physics Graduate Program at MIT in 2009. She completed her undergraduate work at Bryn Mawr College, where she worked in experimental physics on ultra-cold atoms. As a graduate student, she became interested in device physics, and joined the Hybrid MEMS group in the summer of 2010.

Steven Yee

Steven joined the EECS graduate program at MIT in 2011 as a Draper Fellow. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2011 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and is commissioned as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps. He is interested in RF MEMS and reconfigurable antennas.

Subramanian Sundaram

Subra is a graduate student in the EECS dept since 2011. He received B.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani in 2011. Prior to joining MIT, Subra worked on reliability of tunable MEMS gratings at EPFL, and on functionalized carbon nanotube devices at the Max Planck Inst. for Solid State Research.

Undergraduate Students

Bethany Kroese