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Barbara A. Karanian Ph.D. School of Engineering, previously Visiting Professor
Adjunct Lecturer, Design Courses
Lecturer, d.schoolBioBarbara A. Karanian, Ph.D. Lecturer and previously Visiting Professor in Mechanical Engineering Design. Barbara's research focuses on four areas within the psychology of work: 1) grounding a blend of theories from social-cognitive psychology, engineering design, and art to show how cognition affects workplace decisions; 2) changing the way people understand how emotions and motivation influence their work; 3) shifting norms of leaders involved in entrepreneurial minded action; 4) developing teaching methods with a storytelling focus in engineering education.
Barbara teaches and studies how a person’s behavior at work is framed around a blend of applied theoretical perspectives from cognitive and social psychology; engineering design thinking and art. Her storytelling methods provides a form to explore and discover the practices of inquiry and apply them to how individuals behave within organizations, and the ways organizations face challenges. Active storytelling and self-reflective observation helps student and industry leaders to iterate and progress from the early, inspirational phases of projects to reality. Founder of the Design Entrepreneuring Studio (http://web.stanford.edu/~karanian/ ), Barbara shows how storytelling fuels design and innovation.
With her students, she co-authored, "The Power of First Moments in Entrepreneurial Storytelling." Findings show that vulnerability amplifies engagement. For ME 236- Tales to Design Cars By- the opportunity to investigate a person’s relationship with cars through the application of research and a generative storytelling focus-students find the inspiration for designing a new automotive experience. For ME 243 Designing Emotion (for Reactive Car Interfaces) students learn to "know" emotion by operationally defining emotions in self and other: to decipher the impact of emotion in the future of driving or mobility experience.
Barbara received her B.A. in the double major of Experimental Psychology and Fine Arts from the College of the Holy Cross, her M.A. in Art Therapy from Lesley University, and her Ph.D. in Educational Studies in Organizational Behavior from Lesley University. She was a Teaching Fellow in Power and Leadership at Harvard University's GSE.
Awards:
2019 "Provoked Emotion in Student Stories Reveal Gendered Perceptions of What it Means to Be Innovative in Engineering," Karanian, B., Parlier, A., Taajamaa, V., Eskandari, M. 1st Place Research Paper - distinction, ASEE Entrepreneurship and Innovation Division
2013 Best Teaching Strategies Paper award, ASEE Entrepreneurship and Innovation Division -
Amin Karbasi
Adjunct Professor, Management Science and Engineering
BioAn academic entrepreneur, Amin Karbasi is a Senior Director at Cisco Foundation AI, an adjunct professor at Stanford, and serves on the scientific board of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. Previously, he served as Chief Scientist at Robust Intelligence (acquired by Cisco in 2024). Before that, he was a professor at Yale University and a research staff scientist at Google. He has received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, National Academy of Engineering Grainger Award, Amazon Research Award, Nokia Bell-Labs Award, Google Faculty Research Award, Microsoft Azure Research Award, Yale innovation award, Simons Research Fellowship, and ETH Research Fellowship. His work has also been recognized with paper awards from Graphs in Biomedical Image Analysis (GRAIL), Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions Conference (MICCAI), International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), IEEE ComSoc Data Storage, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), ACM SIGMETRICS, and IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). His Ph.D. thesis received the Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize from the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland.
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Amit Kaushal
Adjunct Professor, Bioengineering
Casual - Non-Exempt, Continuing StudiesBioAmit Kaushal, MD, PhD is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine (Stanford-VA) and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. Dr. Kaushal's work spans clinical medicine, teaching, research, and industry.
He helped launch Stanford School of Engineering's undergraduate major in Biomedical Computation (bmc.stanford.edu) and has served as long-time director of the major. The major has graduated over 70 students since inception and was recently featured in Nature (https://go.nature.com/2P2UnRu).
His research interests are in utilizing health data in novel and ethical ways to improve the practice of medicine. He is a faculty executive member of Stanford's Partnership for AI-Assisted Care (aicare.stanford.edu). Recently, he has also been working with public health agencies to improve scale and speed of contact tracing for COVID-19.
He has previously held executive and advisory roles at startups working at the interface of technology and healthcare.
He continues to practice as an academic hospitalist.
Dr. Kaushal completed his BS (Biomedical Computation), MD, PhD (Biomedical Informatics), and residency training at Stanford. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics. -
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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Hyochang Kim
Research Director, Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness
BioI am the Research Director of the Human-Urban Interaction (HUI) pillar at the Stanford Center at the Incheon Global Campus (SCIGC), where my research explores the intersection of humans, technology, and urban environments. My work focuses on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Human-AI Interaction (HAI), and next-generation mobility systems. I develop design concepts, models, and interaction frameworks that enable intuitive, adaptive, and trust-based experiences with emerging technologies in smart cities. This includes work on autonomous delivery robots, AI-driven services, and inclusive UX strategies that support user adoption and acceptance in complex urban systems.
My approach integrates human factors engineering, cognitive psychology, big data analytics, and metaverse-based experimentation to model and optimize interactions across both physical and digital spaces. By combining empirical research with computational analysis, I aim to create scalable solutions that enhance usability, safety, and engagement in evolving smart city ecosystems.
Ultimately, my goal is to ensure that advancing technologies are not only functional but meaningfully embraced by people, enabling the seamless integration of technology and human behavior and driving the development of sustainable, intelligent cities for the future. -
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)
M.S. in Computer Science (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland) -
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.
Please see also www.kolderupconsulting.com. -
Anand Vikas Lalwani
Adjunct Lecturer, Electrical Engineering
BioAnand is a Graduate Student researcher in XLab (advisor: Debbie Senesky).
Anand's research work includes developing and deploying sensors for environmental and energy industries. Sensors developed include techniques for Hall Effect sensors to measure AC magnetic fields, deployable and low cost ammonia sensor for rivers and lakes, CO2 sensors for down-hole applications.
Anand's interests outside of research include startups and solving problems. Anand is committed to developing technologies that tackle pressing issues and translating work form lab into a startup. -
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 works at the intersection of AI strategy, governance, and enterprise impact.
Wei is an AI executive and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, focusing on Innovation to Impact (I2I)—turning computational, AI, and interdisciplinary ideas into deployable systems, scalable products, and measurable business, societal and clinical outcomes.
Previously, Wei served as VP/GM of AI & Analytics (AIA) at Intel, leading large global teams that built full-stack AI software platforms and shaping AI product strategy, ecosystem development, and enterprise deployment at scale, driving multi-billion-dollar AI revenue across enterprise and industry use cases. He also previously served on the boards of the PyTorch Foundation and Linux Foundation AI&Data, contributing to open-source governance, industry collaboration, and responsible AI adoption. Wei has collaborated with leading technology companies including Meta, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Hugging Face, AWS, and Accenture, as well as emerging startups. He has delivered keynotes and lectures at leading forums, including the World AI Summit and Harvard Business School, and engage with media such as Bloomberg to share insights on AI strategy, governance, and enterprise impact.
Wei regularly advises executives and boards on AI strategy, governance, and risk management—particularly where AI materially affects competitiveness, scale, and regulatory exposure. Wei holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University and completed an executive program at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
