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Ali Keshavarzi
Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering
BioAli Keshavarzi, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Professor in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Ali is involved in scholarly research and is an advisor to Stanford SystemX IoE Research (IoE = Internet of Everything). Currently Ali is a DARPA program manager in Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) defining impactful research frontiers in microelectronics. Ali is working on Software Defined Hardware (SDH) Program and on Foundation Required for Novel Compute (FRANC) Program while defining new concepts to push research forward on the technology, computing architecture, and data-centric application domains. Before his current role at DARPA, Ali was working with DARPA as an advisor and subject matter expert on the Electronic Resurgence Initiative (ERI). Ali is a member of DARPA MTO Investor Working Board (IWB) and the Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative (EEI). Ali is a principal and the founder of Leading Edge Research LLC, Los Altos, CA.
Ali is a technology visionary and a leader who has been at the forefront of technology innovation with a track record of delivering critical process technologies, devices, circuits, SoCs, and modules to the semiconductor industry. Ali was the Vice President of R&D and a Fellow at Cypress Semiconductor and held various positions at Intel, TSMC, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES in a variety of technical and leadership roles over 25 years. Ali was a visiting research professor at UC Berkeley from 2017 to 2018.
Ali is an IEEE Fellow. He has over 60 U.S. patents, over 70 peer reviewed papers, has received best-paper awards and the best-panel award at ISSCC, most paper citation awards from DAC and IEDM. He has served in TPC of IEDM and ISSCC and has been the general chair of ISLPED. He received the prestigious Intel Achievement Award (IAA). Ali was awarded a distinguished Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer (OECE) of Purdue University.
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Salma Kirsch
Executive Director of Affiliate Engagement, ICME Affiliates and External Partners
BioExecutive Director of the ICME affiliate program
Responsible for fostering collaboration between the ICME and industry, developing strategic partnerships and navigating research collaborations that transform cutting-edge ideas into real-world applications.
Background spanning high tech, telecommunications, utilities, and consumer products, with each role involving developing strategic partnerships and hands-on innovation.
Past Experiences:
ThinFilm Electronics (Director, Strategic Alliances)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Technology Transfer Officer)
VenTek International (Co-Founder and Director, Business Development)
Arthur Andersen - Business Consulting (Senior Manager)
Motorola (Technology Manager)
Education:
B.S. in Computer Science (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland)
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Meo Kittiwanich
Director of Student and Academic Affairs, Electrical Engineering - Student Services
Current Role at StanfordDirector of Student and Academic Service in the Electrical Engineering Department.
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Erik Kolderup
Adjunct Lecturer, Civil and Environmental Engineering
BioErik Kolderup is a consulting engineer focusing on building energy efficiency. He served as Vice President of Eley Associates and Associate Principal at Architectural Energy Corporation in San Francisco, before starting Kolderup Consulting in 2007. He holds degrees in electrical engineering (BS 1985, MS 1986) and industrial engineering (MS 1990) from Stanford and is an ASHRAE-certified Building Energy Modeling Professional.
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Marly LeSene
Program Director, Communications & Initiatives, Bioengineering
Current Role at StanfordProgram Director, Communications & Initiatives
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Jerker Lessing
Adjunct Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
BioI earned my PhD at Lund University, Sweden, focused on strategic aspects of industrialized construction. I am the CEO and founder of Lessing Innovation, an advisory and consultancy firm within construction industrialization, innovation and sustainability. Between 2015-2023 I had the role as Director of Research & Development at BoKlok, Sweden’s leading housing company within industrialized construction. Before joining BoKlok, I worked for one of Sweden's leading engineering firms, Tyréns AB, where I led a team of Consultants focusing on Construction innovation. I was also engaged by leading Construction and housing companies as a consultant and advisor for numerous innovation- and development projects aimed at industrialized construction.
I am frequently engaged as a lecturer and moderator in both academia and industry, have co-authored a book about industrialized construction and I publish research in international Journals.
I have been a visiting researcher and lecturer at Stanford University since 2013 and since 2017 I am adjunct Professor here. At Stanford I have established and taught the course CEE324 Industrialized Construction, organized study trips for Stanford students and faculty to Sweden, as well as organized the Industrialized Construction Forum which is a industry-academia conference, held annually.
In my research I developed a framework describing contemporary industrialized construction, which has served as a foundation for academic research, as well as a guide for the industry’s development, in Sweden and internationally. -
Ricardo B Levy
Adjunct Professor, Chemical Engineering
BioRicardo Levy is an executive and entrepreneur whose career spans more than three decades of founding and building successful businesses. Born and raised in South America to a European immigrant family, he completed engineering studies in the United States at Stanford and Princeton before returning to South America to run a family business. In 1969 he sold the business and returned to the United States to complete his Ph.D. at Stanford in the field of catalytic chemistry. In 1974, after a number of years in the petroleum and petrochemical industry, he co-founded his first entrepreneurial venture, Catalytica, a research and development firm serving the chemical, pharmaceutical, and clean energy industries. The firm’s discoveries resulted in over one hundred patents and led to the formation of three companies, one of which became, under Levy’s leadership, the largest supplier to the pharmaceutical industry in North America and was sold to European firm DSM in 2000. He has served on several public and private Boards, is Lead Director of the Board of a private analytics software company, and serves on the Board of Aquarius Energy, Inc. From 2010 to 2016 served on the Advisory Board of the Santa Clara University Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, a global incubator of social entrepreneurs. He continues to be a mentor for that program. He is a Lecturer at the Stanford University Chemical Engineering Department, where he teaches a course on entrepreneurship, leadership and new venture creation. He is the author of the book “Letters to a Young Entrepreneur: Succeeding in Business Without Losing at Life – A Leader’s Ongoing Journey” published in 2015. Throughout his life, Dr. Levy has pursued a keen interest in spirituality and personal growth and his conviction that a person’s inner beliefs and purpose are deeply linked to business success. He has continually applied his diverse studies to his roles as a business leader, mentor and teacher.
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Wei Li
Adjunct Professor, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME)
BioDr. Wei Li is an AI executive and Stanford University Adjunct Professor operating at the intersection of AI strategy, Precision AI Governance, and enterprise scale. Wei works on Innovation to Impact (I2I) and Trusted AI—turning computational, AI, and interdisciplinary ideas into deployable systems, scalable products, and measurable business and clinical outcomes.
Currently, Wei collaborates across Stanford’s Schools of Engineering and Medicine, focusing on the deployment of AI in high-stakes environments where technical capability must meet rigorous standards for safety, ethics, and human-centric design.
Previously, as VP/GM of AI & Analytics (AIA) at Intel, Wei led global teams building full-stack AI platforms that generated multi-billion-dollar revenues. His commitment to industry-wide oversight is reflected in his prior governance leadership on the boards of the PyTorch Foundation and Linux Foundation AI & Data, where he championed collaboration alongside leaders from Meta, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft.
A sought-after keynote speaker at Harvard Business School, Fortune, and the World AI Summit, Wei is a frequent contributor to outlets like Bloomberg on matters of AI strategy and enterprise risk management.
He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University and completed an executive program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. -
Carissa Little
Associate Dean and Executive Director, Stanford Engineering Center for Global and Online Education
Current Role at StanfordAssociate Dean, Global and Online Education, School of Engineering
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Trevor Loy
Adjunct Lecturer, Management Science and Engineering
Instructor, Stanford Engineering Center for Global and Online EducationBioTrevor Loy is the Managing Partner and Founder of Flywheel Ventures, a seed- and early-stage venture capital firm that has invested in emerging startup ecosystems for more than twenty-five years.
As an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford, Trevor teaches entrepreneurial management and finance in the Management Science & Engineering Department, where he is affiliated with the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, a research and teaching center he helped create as a graduate student. He also teaches professional and executive education programs for the Stanford Engineering Center for Global & Online Education, as well as for global companies, universities, governments, and sovereign wealth funds.
Trevor shapes venture capital and entrepreneurship policy as a former director of the National Venture Capital Association and a current member of its Board Alumni Council. He also served as Chair of VenturePAC, the venture capital industry's national political action committee, and is a frequent expert witness in private litigation and government policymaking worldwide.
Before founding Flywheel, Trevor held founding, executive, and technical roles at startups including Brooktree, Gigabeat, and ParkingNet, as well as at large tech firms such as Intel, Rockwell, and Teradyne.
He holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Management Science & Engineering, all from Stanford University. -
Ming Luo
Associate Director for Global Engineering Programs, Global Engineering Programs
Current Role at StanfordAs the associate director of Global Engineering Programs, Ming is managing several School of Engineering programs including UGVR, Global Engineering Internship, etc.
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Michael Lyons
Adjunct Lecturer, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Bio-Co-founded Zilkha Venture Partners; sourced investments that returned 5.8x ; rated Top 5% by Cambridge Associates
-Venture Partner at four other Funds including DFJ/ePlanet I & II, Paladin Capital Group- Deals created $50B+ in market value
-Co-founder, CEO or Chairman or C-Suite of 12 Companies including Integrated Systems (INTS, merged with WIND, acq. by Intel), Shadow Networks acq. by Alcalvio), and CypherPath
(acq. by ManTech); co-founding CEO, SafeView (Acq. By L3-Harris then Leidos) Returned 78% IRR for Series A and 163% IRR for Series B investors
-Currently Chairman PrecisionOSTech (Surgical VR Training); and Turbo Protocol (Web 3 Blockchain ); co-founder & CEO (emeritus), RapidAscent (Cyber Ed); Director RTI, global
leader in IIoT; General Partner, NativeFirst Capital
-Co-founder, Numerous SCPD exec Ed Programs, Idea to Market online program, Price-Babson Fellow in eShip Education
He is also a Managing Director of NewLine Ventures, LLC, a management consulting firm. From 2008 to 2011, he also served as a Venture Partner with the Paladin Capital Group in Washington, D.C., and as a Venture Partner for ePlanet Ventures I and II. He founded SafeView, Inc. in 2002, a Government Laboratory (PNNL) spinout, to address aspects of the anti-terrorist physical security market; He served as Chairman until its sale to L3 Harris in March 2006. Leidos then acquired the Company in 2020. This technology is now the security standard in airports worldwide.
Concurrently, Mr. Lyons is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Stanford University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Serving in the Stanford position since 1988, he was a co-developer of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program with Prof. Tom Byers and the founding professor of Technology Venture Formation. Engineering. He is the co-creator of the Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship two-week program for existing high-tech companies produced and managed by the Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD). This program has just completed its 14th year. He has co-produced and delivered numerous other SCPD and STVP programs. He co-founded the Ratio Academy focused on creating training platforms for entrepreneurial education, with a co-developed online program with SCPD called Idea to Market, I2M. He is the founding professor of Tech Venture Formation, MSE273.
From 1980 to 1991, he was a co-founder, a Vice-President, and a Director of Integrated Systems Inc. (INTS, founded 1980), a leading implementer of high-performance real-time control systems for aircraft, automotive, and manufacturing applications. INTS was fundamentally a spinout from the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Lab and Systems Control, Inc. The Company was merged with WindRiver Systems in 1999. WindRiver was acquired by Intel in 2009.
Mr. Lyons received a Bachelor and Masters (equivalent) in Engineering Physics from Cornell University, an MSEE from Stanford, did Ph.D research in Aero/Astro at Stanford (abd) and an MBA, with Distinction, from the Pepperdine Presidential/Key Executive Program. He is a graduate of the Stanford/AEA Institute for the Management of High Technology Companies and a Price-Babson Fellow in Entrepreneurship Education. He holds an FAA multi-Engine Airline Transport Pilot License and Certified Flight Instructor Certificates for Instrument and Multi-Engine Aircraft. He is an avid sailor and motorcyclist.
