Micro Structures & Sensors Lab
Kenny Group @ Stanford

Dustin D. Gerrard


PhD Candidate

dgerrard :at: mems.stanford.edu
440 Escondido Mall, Bldg 530, Rm 224, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Advisor: Thomas W. Kenny

Research

Inertial Navigation,
DRG Topology Optimization,
Anchor Loss Modeling.


Education

Stanford University
(2012-present) Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering

Stanford University
(Aug 2013) M.S. Mechanical Engineering

Brigham Young University
(Apr 2012) B.S. Mechanical Engineering

Brigham Young University
(Apr 2012) B.S. Mathematics

Experience

Weitzlab
Harvard University
Summer 2010 and 2011

Materials Lab
Drexel University
Summer 2009

Fellowships / Awards

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) (2012-2015)

Barry M. Goldwater Fellowship (2011)

Tau Beta Pi Fellowship (2010)

Gatorade Will To Win Student Athlete (2005)

Samsung Fellow (2004)

Publications

Journal
Anne L. Alter, Dustin D. Gerrard, Hyun-Keun Kwon, Gabrielle D. Vukasin, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Quality Factor Extraction and Enhancement Across Temperature in Ring Resonators," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, pp. 1-3, 2020.
Journal
Xin Zhou, Chun Zhao, Dingbang Xiao, Jiangkun Sun, Guillermo Sobreviela, Dustin D. Gerrard, Yunhan Chen, Ian Flader, Thomas W. Kenny, Xuezhong Wu, and Ashwin Seshia, "Dynamic modulation of modal coupling inmicroelectromechanical gyroscopic ring resonators," Nature Communications, Vol. 10, No. 4980, pp. 1-9, Oct 2019.
Conference
Yusheng Wang, Yu-Wei Lin, Janna Rodriguez, Gabrielle D. Vukasin, Dongsuk D. Shin, Hyun-Keun Kwon, David B. Heinz, Yunhan Chen, Dustin D. Gerrard, Thomas W. Kenny, and Andrei M. Shkel, "ON DECOUPLED QUANTIFICATION OF ENERGY DISSIPATION MECHANISMS IN TOROIDAL RING GYROSCOPES," Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop, Hilton Head 2018, pp. 318-321, Jun 2018.
Conference
Lizmarie Comenencia Ortiz, Dustin D. Gerrard, Ian B. Flader, Gabrielle D. Vukasin, David B. Heinz, Janna Rodriguez, Saisneha Koppaka, Dongsuk D. Shin, Hyun-Keun Kwon, Saurabh Chandorkar, and Thomas W. Kenny, "ENHANCING MICRO-OVEN POWER AND STIFFNESS IN ENCAPSULATED DEVICES FOR TIMING REFERENCE APPLICATIONS," Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop, Hilton Head 2018, pp. 214-217, Jun 2018.
Conference
Lizmarie Comenencia Ortiz, Ian B. Flader, Gabrielle D. Vukasin, Dustin D. Gerrard, Saurabh A. Chandorkar, Janna Rodriguez, Dongsuk D. Shin, Ryan Kwon, David B. Heinz, Yunhan Chen, Woosung Park, Kenneth E. Goodson, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Thermal effects of ovenized clocks on episeal encapsulated inertial measurement units," 2018 IEEE 31st International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), pp. 980-983, Jan 2018.
Conference
Janna Rodriguez, Dustin D. Gerrard, Grant M. Glaze, Saurabh Chandorkar, Yunhan Chen, Ian B. Flader, Dongsuk D. Shin, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Unanticipated results in the first direct measurements of anchor damping in MEMS resonators," 2018 IEEE 31st International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), pp. 543-546, Jan 2018.
Conference
J. Rodriguez, D. D. Gerrard, S. Chandorkar, Y. Chen, G. M. Glaze, I. B. Flader, C. H. Ahn, E. J. Ng, and T. W. Kenny, "Wide-range temperature dependence studies for devices limited by thermoelastic dissipation and anchor damping," 2017 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS), pp. 1100-1103, Jun 2017.
Conference
Dustin D. Gerrard, Yunhan Chen, Saurabh A. Chandorkar, Guo Yu, Janna Rodriguez, Ian B. Flader, Dongsuk D. Shin, Carl D. Meinhart, Ole Sigmund, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Topology optimization for reduction of thermo-elastic dissipation in MEMS resonators," 2017 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS), pp. 794-797, Jun 2017.
Conference
Ian B. Flader, Yunhan Chen, Dustin D. Gerrard, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Wafer-scale encapsulation of fully differential electrodes for mutli-axis inertial sensing," 2017 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS), pp. 591-594, Jun 2017.
Conference
Dustin D. Gerrard, Janna Rodriguez, Lizmarie Comenencia Ortiz, Saurabh A. Chandorkar, Ian B. Flader, Yunhan Chen, Dongsuk D. Shin, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Manipulation of heat flux paths in thermo-elastically damped resonators for Q optimization," 2017 IEEE 30th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), pp. 1130-1133, Jan 2017.
Conference
Ian B. Flader, Chae H. Ahn, Dustin D. Gerrard, Eldwin J. Ng, Yushi Yang, Vu A. Hong, Marco Pavone, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Autonomous calibration of MEMS disk resonating gyroscope for improved sensor performance," 2016 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 5803-5810, Jul 2016.
Conference
Ian B. Flader, Chae H. Ahn, Dustin D. Gerrard, Eldwin J. Ng, Yushi Yang, Vu A. Hong, Marco Pavone, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Autonomous calibration of MEMS disk resonating gyroscope for improved sensor performance," 2016 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 5803-5810, Jul 2016.
Conference
Dustin D. Gerrard, Chae H. Ahn, Ian B. Flader, Yunhan Chen, Eldwin J. Ng, Yushi Yang, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Q-factor optimization in disk resonator gyroscopes via geometric parameterization," 2016 IEEE 29th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), pp. 994-997, Jan 2016.
Conference
Dustin D. Gerrard, Eldwin J. Ng, Chae H. Ahn, Vu A. Hong, Yushi Yang, and Thomas W. Kenny, "Modeling the effect of anchor geometry on the quality factor of bulk mode resonators," 2015 Transducers - 2015 18th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS), pp. 1997-2000, Jun 2015.
Journal
Gerrard, D.D., D.T. Fullwood, D.M. Halverson. "Correlating structure topological metrics with bulk composite properties via neural network analysis." Computational Materials Science, Volume 91, August 2014, Pages 20-27, ISSN 0927-0256.
Conference
Fetroe, Brandon, S. Weiss, D.D. Gerrard, T. Kenny. “Sensor Fusion to Track Platform Movement via Kalman Filtering,” Semiconductor Research Coroporation Techcon 2012, Austin, TX, Jun 2012.
Journal
Datta, S.S., D.D. Gerrard, T.S. Rhodes,T.G. Mason, and Weitz D.A., "Rheology of Attractive Emulsions," Phys. Rev. E 84, 041404 (2011).
Journal
Gerrard, D.D., Fullwood D.T., Halverson D.M., and Niezgoda S.R.(2010): “Computational Homology, Connectedness, and Structure-Property Relations,” CMC, 15, 2, 129-152.
Conference
Gerrard, D.D., D.T. Fullwood, D.M. Halverson, "Quality Control of Heterogeneous Materials Through Topological Homology and Entropy." Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering [SAMPE] Conference. Salt Lake City, UT. Oct 14, 2010.
Conference
Gerrard, D.D., D.T. Fullwood, D.M. Halverson, "Linkages Between Homological Connectivity and Material Properties." International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences [ICCES ]. Mar 31, 2010. Las Vegas, NV.
Conference
Fullwood, David T.,D.D. Gerrard, D.M. Halverson, M.Adams, B.L. Adams, "Homology, Percolation and Correlation Functions as Descriptors of Material Structure" [MS&T]. Pittsburgh. Nov 20, 2009.
Conference
Gerrard, D.D., "Numerical solutions in a convolution model for phase transitions." Mathematical Association of America [MAA] Regional Math Conference, Grand Junction, CO. Apr. 8, 2006.