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Surya Ganguli
Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for HAI and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Neurobiology and of Electrical Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsTheoretical / computational neuroscience
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Grace Gao
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
BioGrace Gao is an assistant professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. She leads the Navigation and Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory (NAV Lab). Before joining Stanford University, she was faculty at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She obtained her Ph.D. degree at Stanford University. Her research is on robust and secure perception, localization and navigation with applications to manned and unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous driving cars, as well as space robotics.
Prof. Gao has won a number of awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, the Institute of Navigation Early Achievement Award and the RTCA William E. Jackson Award. She received the Inspiring Early Academic Career Award by Stanford University, and Distinguished Promotion Award from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has won Best Paper/Presentation of the Session Awards 29 times at Institute of Navigation conferences over the span of 17 years. She received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Research from the College of Engineering, University of Illinois. For her teaching and advising, Prof. Gao has been on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students at University of Illinois multiple times. She won the College of Engineering Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, the Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising, and AIAA Illinois Chapter’s Teacher of the Year. Prof. Gao also received AIAA Stanford Chapter Advisor of the Year Award in 2022; Teacher of the Year Award in 2023. -
Lequn Geng
Associate Director of Microelectronics Commons, Electrical Engineering
BioLequn Geng is the Associate Director of the California-Pacific-Northwest AI Hardware Hub, one of the eight Microelectronics Commons Hubs established by the U.S. Department of Defense in 2023. In this role, he oversees the day-to-day operations of the Hub Central Office and an annual budget of over $10 million.
Prior to joining the Northwest-AI-Hub, Lequn Geng was a Research Development Specialist in the Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Research at Stanford University. He helped professors across Stanford create competitive grant proposals to secure federal funding for large centers and strategic programs. During his tenure, he supported proposals to NSF, DOE, and DoD, leading to successful funding including for the Microelectronics Commons program.
Lequn Geng has a chemistry Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan.