Spotlights

My research is motivated by the goal of building systems that actually reconnect us to the present …

I want to put robots in every home in America.
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As a kid, I wore the same Halloween costume for three or four years straight: an orange NASA …

When I took my first computer science course at Stanford, CS106A, I was hooked. I loved the …

I've always loved working with my hands. As a kid I played with building toys like Lego and …

I want to see robots seeing and touching the world in a way more akin to humans, because I believe …

This job involves a lot of the same things I’d loved about teaching – advising students, helping …

When you’re in a PhD program and you know you’ll be spending years working toward an academic or …

When I first came to Stanford, I was inspired because I saw that the courses aren’t just …

I’m excited to go into work every day because someone might be working on something I don’t …

I grew up in a very rural part of Canada and loved the outdoors, so I initially wanted to become a …

I’ve always been inclined toward math and science, but it’s still a bit of a mystery how I chose …

In some ways you could say honeybees are the reason I’m at Stanford today …

I didn’t have an “aha moment” when it came to becoming an engineer …

When I first began making decisions about college and my career, I didn’t even know what …

I grew up in Renton, Washington, near Puget Sound, which is a beautiful part of the Pacific …

I was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. We were …

I was born and raised in Robbinsville, a small town in central New Jersey …

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

I was always interested in how the world worked, and looking back now, I can see my interest in …

I was born in Cusco, Peru, located at an altitude of 11,000 feet in the Andes, where we lived with …