Edward Apraku
PhD candidate
I was born in Kumasi, Ghana, and moved to the U.S. with my parents and older sister when I was 2 …
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Emma Kaeli
PhD candidate
Materials Science and Engineering
When I first started college, someone asked if I wanted to join the Society of Women Engineers, but …
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Owen Modeste
Senior Creative Producer, Stanford Center for Professional Development
I’m originally from Trinidad and Tobago, and that’s where I first became interested in media …
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Alex Keller
Senior Systems Security Engineer
Passion is paramount. It’s defined my career and ascent to the role I hold now …
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Skyler St. Pierre
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
I study how we can use neural networks and machine learning to better understand the mechanics of …
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Michael Kwara
PhD candidate
Aeronautics and Astronautics
During the peak of COVID when large gatherings were rare, I joined thousands of people on a beach …
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Neil Band
PhD candidate
Computer Science
I was born in Boston, but I grew up in the Midwest, and lived in Chicago for a while before our …
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Guillem Casadesús Vila
MS ’24
Aeronautics and Astronautics
When I was around 14, NASA landed the Curiosity rover on Mars and it was an aha moment for me …
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Kavya Sreedhar
PhD candidate
Electrical Engineering
I grew up in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, but by the time I was in eighth grade, my family had moved …
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Rachel Huang
PhD candidate
Materials Science and Engineering
I was born in China’s Hunan Province and came to the U.S. alone when I was 17 …
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Barbara Simpson
Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
I call myself an accidental engineer …
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Simi Aluko
PhD candidate
Civil & Environmental Engineering
My first trip to London opened my mind to the idea that buildings can tell stories …
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Khalid Osman
Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Life has taken me on a long journey …
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Ming Luo
Associate Director, Global Engineering Programs
I feel like I’m a very lucky person who’s always had people around me to help as I grow, and …
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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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Nava Haghighi
PhD
Computer Science
I’m a designer by training …
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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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