Ken Goodson specializes in heat transfer and energy conversion with applications to electric vehicles, data centers, and portable electronic devices. He has mentored 55+ Stanford graduate students to their doctoral degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Materials Science, including dozens who are now professors at institutions including MIT, Princeton, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. His alumni also hold leadership positions at ARPA-E, Sandia National Labs, and numerous companies. Under the DARPA ICECool Programs, his students developed a world-record heat sink for power conversion. Goodson is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and received the Aristotle Award for graduate student mentorship from the Semiconductor Research Corporation.