S4 Lab Members

Zerina Kapetanovic
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Principal Investigator
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Zerina Kapetanovic is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University working in the area of low-power wireless communication, sensing, and Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Prior to starting at Stanford, Kapetanovic was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research in the Networking Research Group and Research for Industry Group.

Kapetanovic’s research has been recognized by the Yang Research Award, the Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Washington. She also received the Microsoft Research Distinguished Dissertation Grant and was selected to attend the 2020 UC Berkeley Rising Stars in EECS Workshop. Kapetanovic completed her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington in 2022.

Geneva Ecola
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Graduate Student
gecola (at) stanford.edu
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Geneva is a 4th year PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering. She received her B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College in 2019. After college she worked as a radio frequency design engineer at Trellisware Technologies before starting her graduate studies in 2021. She received the M.S. in Electrial Engineering from Stanford in 2023 and is currently working towards her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. During graduate school, she interned at Apple and Tesla working on wirless systems. She received the Stanford Graduate Fellowship twice (2021 and 2024) and the Apple Stanford EE PhD Fellowship in Integrated Systems. Her research interests include ultra low power sensing and communications systems, as well as using satellite systems to provide connectivity all over Earth.

Jasmin Falconer
Graduate Student
jfalco (at) stanford.edu
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Jasmin is a Phd candidate in electrical engineering who started her program in the fall of 2023. She received her bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Arizona State University in 2023 and her master’s in electrical engineering from Stanford in 2025. She is funded by the NSF-GRFP fellowship (awarded 2023) and the Stanford Graduate Fellowship (awarded 2023). She has interned for Nokia Bell Labs (2024), working on systems and integration for high-frequency radar. She has also worked for the University of Ulm, Germany (2022) and Collins Aerospace (2021). Her past research involves RF systems and cavities for particle accelerators (ASU) and low-power wireless sensing using Johnson noise (Stanford). Her current research is on low-power sensing for women’s health wearables. In her spare time, she enjoys camping, skiing, dancing, and reading any books she can find.

Tim Jacques
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Graduate Student
tjacques (at) stanford.edu
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Tim is a Master’s student in the Electrical Engineering department at Stanford University. He received his Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from UCLA in 2024. Previously, he has worked with the Secure Systems and Architectures Lab at UCLA performing embedded hardware security research, and the UCLA Communications Systems Laboratory performing cutting edge communications systems research. Currently, he focuses on designing and integrating low-power and low-cost wireless embedded systems.

Eli LeChien
Graduate Student
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Eli is a Masters student in the electrical engineering department at Stanford University.

Chae Young Lee
Graduate Student
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Teresa Perez
Undergraduate Student

Bill Yen
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Graduate Student
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Bill Yen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University working in the area of low-power Internet of Things (IoT) systems. He is an interdisciplinary maker and environmental scientist passionate about solving issues related to food, water, and energy using smart technologies.

Yen’s experience in industry (General Motors, CNH Industrial) and academic research (Northwestern - soil-powered computing, Stanford - low-power wireless communication) cultivated his interest in designing self-powered computing devices that boost system efficiency while lowering the environmental impact of existing processes. His work has been featured by The Independent, Fast Company, MIT Technology Review China, Hackster.io, and more. He is also a recipient of the Stanford Graduate Fellowship in Science & Engineering.

Jida Zhang
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Graduate Student
jidaz (at) stanford.edu
Personal Website
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Jida Zhang is a first year Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, rotating in S4 lab. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University in 2024. He was a summer intern at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2023. His research interests lie in wireless communications/sensing.