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Sherrie Wang
I grew up assuming engineering was something I could do largely because of my grandmother …
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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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Carmen Torres

Carmen Torres

Program Administrator
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Stanford has been my professional home for 20 years; I’ve been in the Chemistry department, the …
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Andrew LeMat

Academic and Visitor Affairs Coordinator
Chemical Engineering
My Stanford roots start way back – I was actually born here at Stanford Hospital …
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Madeleine Udell

Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University
PhD ’15
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I’ve always been interested in how you can use mathematics to model and solve real-world problems …
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Xiaolin Zheng

Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Two of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over the years are the importance of taking advantage of …
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Chelsea Sidrane

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Both my parents are lawyers, but my dad’s always been a tinkerer, making furniture and getting his …
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Michelle Brunner

Student Services Manager
Chemical Engineering
I’m the Student Services Manager in the Chemical Engineering department, where I’ve been for …
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Chi-Wen Chien

Administrative Associate
Chemical Engineering
My husband and I moved here from Taiwan almost six years ago, where I had been a high school teacher …
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Renee Zhao

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
I study soft composites and soft robotic systems for use in minimally invasive biomedical devices …
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Meo Kittiwanich

Director of Student and Academic Services
Electrical Engineering
I’ve been in Electrical Engineering for nine years where I’m now the Director of Student and …
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Javier Urzay

Senior Research Aerospace Engineer, Center for Turbulence Research and Associate Director, Stanford PSAAP-III Center
Mechanical Engineering
I am a senior research aerospace engineer at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford …
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Dhiraj Indana

PhD
Mechanical Engineering
My parents, who are both doctors, instilled in me a love of biology …
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Widya Mulyasasmita

PhD ’13
Bioengineering
To me, engineering is all about using scientific principles to design and improve our natural world …
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Julia Gillespie

Director of Finance & Operations
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I’m the Director of Finance and Operations (DFO) for the Institute for Computational & …
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Csilla Csaplár

Director, Engineering Research Administration
I’ve been at Stanford for 16 years, with the last four as director of engineering research …
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Kathryn Potts

Director of Analytics
I came to analytics after earning a PhD in linguistics, where I learned I love working in …
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Mahilet Kasahun

Master's candidate
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Ethiopia, my country, is endowed with precious gifts of nature: fertile soil, a favorable climate …
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Karen Leung

PhD candidate
Aeronautics and Astronautics
#IAmAnEngineer: I work on developing algorithms that help robots understand the world around them, …
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Jodi Porter

Master’s Student
Civil & Environmental Engineering
When the pandemic happened, I started watching videos on the water situation in developing nations …
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