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Kuang Xu
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Graduate School of Business and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
BioKuang Xu is an Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Associate Professor by courtesy with the Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University. Born in Suzhou, China, he received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (2009) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2014) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His research primarily focuses on understanding fundamental properties and design principles of large-scale stochastic systems using tools from probability theory and optimization, with applications in queueing networks, healthcare, privacy and machine learning. He received First Place in the INFORMS George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition (2011), the Best Paper Award, as well as the Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award at ACM SIGMETRICS (2013), and the ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Research Award (2020). He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Operations Research and Management Science. -
Shayan Zahid
MBA, expected graduation 2028
BioShayan Zahid is an MBA candidate at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a product design engineer at Apple, where he has helped develop and manufacture iPhone hardware at global scale. Previously, he conducted sustainable aviation research at MIT, focusing on technologies that reduce aircraft emissions. His interests span AI-enabled products, entrepreneurship, aerospace, sustainability, and building organizations where people feel empowered to contribute. Shayan is especially interested in how emerging technologies can reshape established industries and create products with large-scale impact. Outside of work, he enjoys ballroom dancing, ambitious travel itineraries, and bringing people together across different communities.
