Spotlights

Steve Stanghellini
Manager, Research Administration
I lead a small team of engineering research administrators …
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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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Max Levine
Life Science Research Professional
Chemical Engineering
I began college as a modern language and literature major at Cal Poly, but after taking a few …
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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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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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