Michelle received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Materials Science & Engineering from U.C. Berkeley, and her M. S. and PhD and in Materials Science & Engineering from Stanford University, where she was a U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Research Scholar. She has over 12 years of academic and industry experience in R&D, nanofabrication, CVD growth, and materials characterization.