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Three professors are elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Daphne Koller, Stephen Quake and Mendel Rosenblum to become members of one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies.
Mendel Rosenblum, Stephen Quake and Daphne Koller will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected three professors from the Stanford School of Engineering as members of its 2014 class.

The new members from Stanford Engineering are:

Daphne Koller, the Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science

Koller’s interests span artificial intelligence, economics and algorithms. She is also co-founder of Coursera, an online learning platform.

Stephen R. Quake, the Lee Otterson Professor in the School of Engineering and professor of bioengineering and of applied physics

Quake pioneered the development of Microfluidic Large Scale Integration (mLSI), the “lab on a chip” technology used in functional genomics, genetic analysis, and structural biology.

Mendel Rosenblum, professor of computer science and of electrical engineering

Rosenblum’s is an expert in system software, distributed systems and computer architecture. He is also a co-founder VMware Inc., a computer virtualization company.

The prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the country's oldest honorary learned societies, and a leading center for independent policy research. It counts more than 4,600 members and 600 foreign fellows as members, comprised of many of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, business, social policy, energy, global security, the humanities and the arts. Members include 250 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.

Koller, Quake and Rosenblum will join eight other Stanford faculty, also elected to the academy in 2014, at an induction ceremony to be held in Cambridge, Mass., in October.