[eddotman]

The head researcher here, Yi Cui, is a pretty baller dude. I met him at a PhD admit visitation weekend, and his group was the most popular by far. Some of the admitted students joked that competition to get into his group was harder than getting into Stanford in the first place.

I suspect that his research success is partly due to some snowball effect though - he has an extraordinary amount of postdocs working for him and access to a lot of money/equipment - which are both pretty great assets to have in engineering (and tend to grow as a function of present size).

Anyway, not to take away from the research he's doing. A lot of the stuff he puts out is very cool; I look forward to seeing more.