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Jeffrey R. Koseff
William Alden Campbell and Martha Campbell Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Oceans, Emeritus
BioJeff Koseff, founding co-director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, is an expert in the interdisciplinary domain of environmental fluid mechanics. His research falls in the interdisciplinary domain of environmental fluid mechanics and focuses on the interaction between physical and biological systems in natural aquatic environments. Current research activities are in the general area of environmental fluid mechanics and focus on: turbulence and internal wave dynamics in stratified flows, coral reef and sea-grass hydrodynamics, the role of natural systems in coastal protection, and flow through terrestrial and marine canopies. Most recently he has begun to focus on the interaction between gravity currents and breaking internal waves in the near-coastal environment, and the transport of marine microplastics. Koseff was formerly the Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Senior Associate Dean of Engineering at Stanford, and has served on the Board of Governors of The Israel Institute of Technology, and has been a member of the Visiting Committees of the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Carnegie-Mellon University, The Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, and Cornell University. He has also been a member of review committees for the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan, The WHOI-MIT Joint Program, and the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment. He is a former member of the Independent Science Board of the Bay/Delta Authority. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2015, and received the Richard Lyman Award from Stanford University in the same year. In 2020 he was elected as a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. Koseff also served as the Faculty Athletics Representative to the Pac-12 and NCAA for Stanford until July 2024.
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Naohiko Kohtake
Visiting Professor, Mechanical Engineering
BioNaohiko Kohtake is a Visiting Professor at the Center for Design Research, Stanford University, and Professor at the Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University in Japan. His research interests lie in space systems engineering, intelligent systems, and the integration of design thinking and systems engineering for innovative social and space services. He is currently conducting research at Stanford University on enhancing data-driven decision-making systems through space-scale Internet of Things, which involves satellites, drones, ground-based sensors, and robots.
He began his career at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), where he worked on the H-IIA launch vehicle, onboard software for spacecraft, and international projects related to the International Space Station with European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. He later served as a visiting researcher at the ESA. Since joining Keio University in 2009, he has led research on space service innovation, systems approaches to societal challenges, and education for multigenerational co-creation. He has served as the primary academic advisor for 13 doctoral degree recipients and 73 master’s degree recipients from Japan as well as other countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. He concurrently held the position of Principal at Keio Yokohama Elementary School.
