Stanford
Engineering

Spotlights

Adrienne sitting outside at a table, wearing a blue coat and smiling at the camera.

Adrienne Propp

PhD candidate
I never planned to become a mathematician. I liked math growing up because it made sense to me – …
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Gabriela Velázquez

Assistant Director for Graduate Communities
I didn’t know higher ed/student affairs was a possible career path until I was a junior in …
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Michelle Lucas Rice

Director of Student Services
Mechanical Engineering
As director of the Student Services Office in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, I supervise …
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Luz M. Jiménez Ruvalcaba

Assistant Director for Graduate Outreach & Recruitment and Director of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
I’m a Stanford staffer now, but for close to a decade, I encountered the university as a …
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Aaron Brown

PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
I work in Alison Marsden’s lab, where we study computational modeling of the cardiovascular …
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Michaëlle Mayalu

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
My dad was my first introduction to the field of engineering …
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Matthew Edwards

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
I’m interested in the ability of high-powered lasers, with their extremely bright light, to help …
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Sherrie Wang

PhD ’21
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I grew up assuming engineering was something I could do largely because of my grandmother …
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Aaron Brown

MS ’23
Mechanical Engineering
I think I first became curious about space and science in middle school …
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Mary K. McMahon

Director of Finance and Operations
Electrical Engineering
In the electrical engineering department, my job is basically to keep the train going down the track …
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Christopher Hoyt

PhD
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I was born in Salinas, and in those first few weeks I had episodes when I stopped breathing …
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Bianca Jurewicz (Aumann)

M.S., ’23
Mechanical Engineering
My curiosity about engineering has been a part of me since I was a little girl …
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Julia Olivieri

PhD candidate
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I never used to think of myself as someone who’d study computer science, and I didn’t think of …
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Christiane Adcock

PhD candidate
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I became an engineer to fight climate change …
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Favour Nerrise

Electrical Engineering
I didn’t always have a word for it, but engineering has been part of my life for a long time …
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Jasmine Desiderio

Lab Administrator, Prakash Lab, Wang Lab
Bioengineering
I’m an administrator for the Department of Bioengineering, where I support both the Bo Wang and …
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Joseph Towles

Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering
I was in high school the first time I heard the word “engineer” used separately from conducting …
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Nhu Do

Associate Director of Human Resources
I’ve been at Stanford for 11 years. I started as a human resources associate in the Office of the …
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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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