Thomas Colburn
PhD candidate
I was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. We were …
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Abeynaya Gnanasekaran
PhD candidate
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I find my PhD work in linear algebra exciting because many problems in many different fields boil …
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Alexander Ioannidis
MS ’18, Management Science & Engineering, PhD ’18
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering, Management Science and Engineering
I’ve always been interested in human health as an engineering problem …
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Srabanti Chowdhury
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering
I’m an associate professor of electrical engineering and a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute …
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Crystal Nattoo
PhD candidate
Electrical Engineering
I knew I loved engineering after taking it as an elective in high school, but I fell in love with …
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Emilie Kono
Bioengineering
One of the most exciting days of my life was when I went to my first university lab in high school …
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Juan Rivas Davila
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering
I’ve always been interested in physics and engineering, and growing up in Mexico a good friend and …
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Gracey Hessinger
Student Services Officer
Bioengineering
My manager is always telling me I have to bring my “Disney magic” to my work, and there’s a …
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Tim Schnabel
BS ’15, MS ’17, PhD ’21
Bioengineering
I engineer microbes that turn the air into fertilizer …
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Elvis Ikwa
BS ’15
Bioengineering
I’m the first person in my family to go to college, and it only happened because when I was 12 I …
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Isabel Gallegos
Computer Science
It’s hard to become something you can’t see …
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Eiko Rutherford
Program Manager, Agile Hardware Program
Electrical Engineering
My first job with Stanford was with the Stanford Overseas Studies program in Kyoto, Japan …
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Carmen Torres
Program Administrator
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Stanford has been my professional home for 20 years; I’ve been in the Chemistry department, the …
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Andrew LeMat
Academic and Visitor Affairs Coordinator
Chemical Engineering
My Stanford roots start way back – I was actually born here at Stanford Hospital …
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Madeleine Udell
Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University
PhD ’15
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I’ve always been interested in how you can use mathematics to model and solve real-world problems …
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Xiaolin Zheng
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Two of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over the years are the importance of taking advantage of …
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Chelsea Sidrane
Aeronautics and Astronautics
Both my parents are lawyers, but my dad’s always been a tinkerer, making furniture and getting his …
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Michelle Brunner
Student Services Manager
Chemical Engineering
I’m the Student Services Manager in the Chemical Engineering department, where I’ve been for …
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Chi-Wen Chien
Administrative Associate
Chemical Engineering
My husband and I moved here from Taiwan almost six years ago, where I had been a high school teacher …
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Renee Zhao
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
I study soft composites and soft robotic systems for use in minimally invasive biomedical devices …
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Meo Kittiwanich
Director of Student and Academic Services
Electrical Engineering
I’ve been in Electrical Engineering for nine years where I’m now the Director of Student and …
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Javier Urzay
Senior Research Aerospace Engineer, Center for Turbulence Research and Associate Director, Stanford PSAAP-III Center
Mechanical Engineering
I am a senior research aerospace engineer at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford …
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