Janet Stillman

Alumna
Electrical Engineering Department
University of California, Los Angeles

Janet Stillman received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in March, 2008. She received an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003 and a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University in 1995. Her research interests include MEMS, environmentally sustainable engineering, and many other topics. She has worked for several startups, medium-sized companies, and a government lab as an employee or independent contractor, doing digital design of ASICs and FPGAs, computer system design, and microcoding.

Linked-In Summary

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, (in progress), 3-D Microfabrication in Photostructurable Glass Ceramic
• M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, CA, August 2003, CMOS MEMS Resonant Mixer-Filters
• B.S., Computer Systems Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, June 1995

• 3-D Microfabrication with Photostructurable Glass(UCLA and Aerospace Corporation, Present)
• Electric Field Probes for a Laboratory Plasma (UCLA, 2003-2005)
• CMOS MEMS Resonant Mixer-Filters (Carnegie Mellon University, 2001-2003)
• Robotic Control Software for the Yeast Genome Project (Stanford University, 1993-1995)

• EE110 - Circuit Analysis(Winter 2004)
• EE121D - Principles of Semiconductor Device Design (UCLA, Spring 2004)
• EECM150/EE250A - Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) (UCLA, Fall 2007)

• 2004– Present: Contractor or Member of Technical Staff, Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
  Research on photostructurable glass.

• 2001: President, Stillman Hardware Design, Brooklyn, NY
  Contracted for digital ASIC and FPGA and system design.

• 1997-1999: Design Engineer, Electronics for Imaging, Foster City, CA
  ASIC and board-level design.

• 1995-1997: Design Engineer, Finisar Corporation, Mountain View, CA
  ASIC, FPGA and board level design and bring-up as well as some firmware.

• EE M250A - MEMS Fabrication
• EE 250B - MEMS Physics
• EE 215A - Analog Integrated Circuit Design
• EE 215C - RF Integrated Circuit Design
• EE 215D - Analog Microsystem Design (Mixed-Signal IC Design)
• ECE Biopolymers I (CMU)
• ECE MEMS I (CMU)
• ECE Wireless Systems (CMU)

• Janet Stillman, Jack Judy, and Henry Helvajian, “Laser Alteration of the Mechanical Properties of a Photostructurable Glass-Ceramic”, Proc. SPIE, vol. 6879A. pdf.
• Janet Stillman, Jack Judy, and Henry Helvajian, “Aspect Ratios, Sizes, and Etch Rates in Photostructurable Glass-Ceramic” Proc. SPIE, vol. 6882. pdf.
• J.A. Stillman, J.W. Judy, and H. Helvajian, (2008) “MaTT, An Automatic Toolpath Generator for Laser Patterning High-Aspect-Ratio Microstructures in Photosensitive Materials”, Int. J. Manufacturing Research, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.114–134. pdf
• Janet Stillman, Jack Judy, and Henry Helvajian, “Processing Parameters for the Development of Glass/Ceramic MEMS”, SPIE Photonics West 2007, San Jose, Jan 21-25, 2007.paper
• P. Pribyl, W. Gekelman, M. Nakamoto, E. Lawrence, F. Chiang, J. Stillman, J. Judy, N. Katz, P. Niknejadi, “Debye-size Microprobes for Electric-Field Measurements in Laboratory Plasmas”, Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 77, no. 073504, July 2006.

• Janet Stillman, Jack Judy, and Henry Helvajian, “Laser alteration of the mechanical properties of photostructurable glass-ceramic”, SPIE Photonics West 2008, San Jose, Jan 20-25, 2008. Powerpoint Talk
• Janet Stillman, Jack Judy, and Henry Helvajian, “Aspect ratios, sizes, and etch rates in laser-patterned photostructurable glass”, SPIE Photonics West 2008, San Jose, Jan 20-25, 2008. Poster.
• Janet Stillman, Jack Judy, and Henry Helvajian, “Processing Parameters for the Development of Glass/Ceramic MEMS”, SPIE Photonics West 2007, San Jose, Jan 21-25, 2007. Talk. Best Paper Award received for the presentation.
• Janet Stillman, Jack Judy, and Henry Helvajian, “Resolution and Control in Laser-Direct-Write-Patterned Photostructurable Glass”, (Talk delivered by Dr. Henry Helvajian) Laser Precision Microfabrication 2006, Kyoto, Japan, May, 2006.
• J.A. Stillman, F. C. Chiang, P. Pribyl, M. Nakamoto, W. Gekelman, J.W. Judy, “Microfabricated Probes for Laboratory Plasmas”, Dig. Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop. 5-8 June, 2006, Hilton Head Island, SC, Transducers Res. Found., pp. 308-311. Poster.