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Membership in an affiliate program provides companies with access to research programs, faculty, and students involved in topics ranging from the specific to the interdisciplinary.

Last year, hundreds of top companies reaped the benefits of membership in one of Stanford Engineering’s many affiliate programs.

For more than 60 years these programs in the School of Engineering have provided an avenue for industry to get involved with Stanford departments and faculty.

Corporate members can benefit from attending annual meetings and research symposia, receiving topical reports and publications, and conducting individual meetings with researchers. In some instances, member companies have opportunities to recruit students at events.

From nanotechnology to AI and FinTech to photonics, these affiliate programs cover a wide variety of research topics and industry interests.


Browse our list of affiliate programs to find the right one for your company.

Advanced Financial Technologies Laboratory

AI Safety

AI for Structured Based Drug Discovery

Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL)

Blume Center: Earthquake Engineering Affiliates

Center for Automated Reasoning (Centaur)

Center for Innovation and Design Research (SCIDR)

Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE)

Center for Portable Accelerated Learning (Portal)

Compression Forum

Computer Forum Affiliates Program

Construction Institute

Data Science Applications

Design Program

Design Research

Differentiated Access to Memories

Energy Modeling Forum

Future of Digital Currency Initiative

HAI Affiliate Program

ICME Education Affiliate Program

Image Systems Engineering

National Performance of Dams Program

Nonvolatile Memory Technology Research Initiative (Phase 2)

Open Virtual Assistant Lab

Photonics Research Center

Position Navigation and Time

Research Initiative on Long-Term Investing (SLTI)

Robotics Center

Stanford Energy Corporate Affiliates

Sustainable Development & Global Competitiveness

Sustainable Energy Through Catalysis (SUNCAT)

Sustainable Mobility Center

System X Alliance

Teaching Design Thinking

Thermal & Fluid Sciences Affiliates

US-Asia Technology Management Center

Wearable Electronics Initiative (eWear)