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Punnag Padhy
Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering, admitted Summer 2016
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCurrently, I am working on an on-chip platform to simultaneously trap and manipulate micron scale beads and droplets with an intention to implement chemical reactions on a chip at ultrasmall volumes.
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Andreas Paepcke
Sr Research Engineer, Computer Science
BioDr. Andreas Paepcke is a Senior Research Scientist and Director for Data Analytics in support of online teaching efforts at Stanford University. His interests include user interfaces and systems for teaching and learning. He uses data analytics to create tools that benefit these online efforts. In the past Dr. Paepcke and his groups of students designed and implemented WebBase, an experimental storage and high speed dissemination system for Web content. Their work on small devices focused on novel methods for summarizing and transforming Web pages, and browsing images on small displays. Dr. Paepcke has served on numerous program committees, including a position as Vice Program Chair, heading the World-Wide Web Conference's 'Browsers and User Interfaces' program track, and as Program Chair for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2008. He served on several National Science Foundation proposal evaluation panels and was co-founding associate editor of ACM Transactions on the Web. Dr. Paepcke received BS and MS degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Previously, he worked as a researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratory, and as a research consultant at Xerox PARC. He has served on a number of technical advisory boards for startup companies.
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Daniel Palanker
Director of HEPL, Professor of Ophthalmology and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInteractions of electric field and light with biological cells and tissues and their applications to imaging, diagnostics, therapeutics and prosthetics, primarily in ophthalmology.
Specific fields of interest:
Electronic retinal prosthesis;
Electronic enhancement of tear secretion;
Electronic control of blood vessels;
Non-damaging retinal laser therapy;
Ultrafast laser surgery;
Interferometric imaging of neural signals;
Cell transplantation and retinal plasticity. -
Richard Pantell
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus
BioIn the past I have been interested in waves and diffusion in inhomogeneous or random media and in the mathematical analysis of multi-scale phenomena that arise in their study. Applications come from electromagnetic wave propagation in the atmosphere, underwater sound, waves in the lithosphere, diffusion in porous media, etc. I have studied both linear and nonlinear waves and diffusion, in both direct and inverse problems. I am now working on assessing multi-pathing effects in communication systems, especially when time reversal arrays are used. Another recent interest is financial mathematics, the use of asymptotics for stochastic equations in analyzing complex models of financial markets and in data analysis.
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Bradford Parkinson
Edward C. Wells Professor in the School of Engineering, Emeritus
BioProfessor Bradford Parkinson was the Chief Architect for GPS, and led the original advocacy for the system in 1973 as an Air Force Colonel. Gaining approval, he became the first Director of the GPS Joint Program Office and led the original development of spacecraft, Master Control Station and 8 types of User Equipment. He continued leadership of the Program through the extensive test validation Program, including being the Launch Commander for the first GPS satellite launches. This original deployment of GPS demonstrated comfortable margins against all PNT (Positioning, Navigation, and Timing) requirements.
Earlier in his career, he was a key developer of a modernized AC-130 Gunship, introduction of which included 160 hours of combat missions. He was an instructor at the USAF Test Pilot School. In addition he led the Department of Astronautics and Computer Science at the US Air Force Academy. He retired from the US Air Force as a Colonel.
He was appointed a Professor at Stanford University in 1984, after six years of experience in industry. At Stanford University, he led the development of many innovative applications of GPS, including:
1.Commercial aircraft (Boeing 737) blind landing using GPS alone,
2.Fully automatic GPS control of Farm Tractors on a rough field to an accuracy of 2 inches,
3.Pioneering the augmentation to GPS (WAAS) that allows any user to achieve accuracies of 2 feet and very high levels of integrity assurance.
He has been the CEO of two companies, and serves on many boards. He is the editor/author of the AIAA Award winning 2 Volumes: “GPS Theory and Applications” and is author or coauthor of over 80 technical papers.
Among his many awards is the Draper Prize of the National Academy of Engineering, considered by some to be the “Engineering Nobel”. -
M Elisabeth Pate-Cornell
The Burton J. and DeeDee McMurtry Professor in the School of Engineering
BioDr. Marie-Elisabeth Paté-Cornell is the Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor and Founding Chair (2000-2011) of the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Her specialty is engineering risk analysis with application to complex systems (space, medical, offshore oil platforms, etc.). Her earlier research has focused on the optimization of warning systems and the explicit inclusion of human and organizational factors in the analysis of systems’ failure risks. Her recent work is on the use of game theory in risk analysis with applications that have included counter-terrorism, nuclear counter-proliferation problems and cyber security. She is the author of more than one hundred publications, and the co-editor of a book on Perspectives on Complex Global Problems (2016).
She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, of the French Académie des Technologies, of the NASA Advisory Council and of several boards including the Board of Advisors of the Naval Postgraduate School and the Navy War College. Dr. Paté-Cornell was a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from December 2001 to 2008, of the board of the Aerospace Corporation (2004-2013) of Draper Laboratory (2009-2016), and of InQtel (2006-2017). She holds a BS in Mathematics and Physics, Marseille (France), an Engineering degree (Applied Math/CS) from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (France), an MS in Operations Research and a PhD in Engineering-Economic Systems, both from Stanford University. -
Marco Patrignani
Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsFoundations of programming languages, PL security, secure compilation
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Immanuvel Paul
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mechanical Engineering
BioDr Immanuvel Paul is a postdoctoral research fellow at Center for Turbulence Research (CTR), Stanford University. Dr Paul obtained his PhD from Imperial College London in June 2017. His PhD work, which was funded by Marie-Curie fellowship, focused on the evolution of velocity and scalar gradient dynamics for a spatially developing turbulence generated by a single square grid-element. Before his PhD, he did Master of Science by Research (MS) in Fluid Mechanics at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2010-2013). His Master's work analysed the effects of thickness and incidence on elliptic cylinder wakes using the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM). Dr Paul also holds Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai (2006-2010).
Dr Paul is primarily interested in using computational techniques to solve multiphysics problems both at the fundamental and application level. -
Arogyaswami Paulraj
Professor (Research) of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus
BioProfessor Emeritus Arogyaswami Paulraj, Stanford University, is a pioneer of MIMO wireless communications, a technology break through that enables improved wireless performance. MIMO is now incorporated into all new wireless systems.
Paulraj is the author of over 400 research papers, two text books and a co-inventor in 66 US patents.
Paulraj has won over a dozen awards, notably the Marconi Prize and Fellowship, 2014 and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, 2011. He is a fellow of eight scientific / engineering national academies including the US, China, India and Sweden. He is a fellow of IEEE and AAAS.
In 1999, Paulraj founded Iospan Wireless Inc. - which developed and established MIMO-OFDMA wireless as the core 4G technology. Iospan was acquired in by Intel Corporation in 2003. In 2004, he co-founded Beceem Communications Inc. The company became the market leader in 4G-WiMAX semiconductor and was acquired by Broadcom Corp. in 2010. In 2014 he founded Rasa Networks to develop Machine Learning tools for WiFi Networks. The company was acquired HPE in 2016.
During his 30 years in the Indian (Navy) (1961-1991), he founded three national level laboratories in India and headed one of India’s most successful military R&D projects – APSOH sonar. He received over a dozen awards (many at the national level) in India including the Padma Bhushan, Ati Vishist Seva Medal and the VASVIK Medal. -
John M. Pauly
Reid Weaver Dennis Professor
BioInterests include medical imaging generally, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in particular. Current efforts are focused on medical applications of MRI where real-time interactive imaging is important. Two examples are cardiac imaging, and the interactive guidance of interventional procedures. Specific interests include rapid methods for the excitation and acquisition of the MR signal, and the reconstruction of images from the data acquired using these approaches.
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Kim Butts Pauly
Professor of Radiology (Radiological Sciences Lab) and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsWe are investigating and developing, and applying focused ultrasound in neuromodulation, blood brain barrier opening, and ablation for both neuro and body applications.
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Marco Pavone
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
BioDr. Marco Pavone is an Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering, in the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, and in the Information Systems Laboratory. He is a Research Affiliate at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology. Before joining Stanford, he was a Research Technologist within the Robotics Section at JPL. He received a Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. Dr. Pavone’s areas of expertise lie in the fields of controls and robotics.
Dr. Pavone is a recipient of a NASA Early Career Faculty award, a Hellman Faculty Scholar Award, and was named NASA NIAC Fellow in 2011. At JPL, Dr. Pavone worked on the end-to-end optimization of the mission architecture for the Mars sample return mission. He has designed control algorithms for formation flying that have been successfully tested on board the International Space Station.
Dr. Pavone is the Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory (ASL). The goal of ASL is the development of methodologies for the analysis, design, and control of autonomous systems, with a particular emphasis on large-scale robotic networks and autonomous aerospace vehicles. The lab combines expertise from control theory, robotics, optimization, and operations research to develop the theoretical foundations for networked autonomous systems operating in uncertain, rapidly-changing, and potentially adversarial environments. Theoretical insights are then used to devise practical, computationally-efficient, and provably-correct algorithms for field deployment. Applications include robotic transportation networks, sensor networks, agile control of spacecraft during proximity operations, and mobility platforms for extreme planetary environments. Collaborations with NASA centers are a key component of the research portfolio. -
Roy Pea
Director, H-STAR, David Jacks Professor of Education and Professor, by courtesy, of Computer Science
Current Research and Scholarly Interestslearning sciences focus on advancing theories, research, tools and social practices of technology-enhanced learning of complex domains
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Ardavan Pedram
Lecturer, Computer Science
Researcher, Electrical Engineering - Computer Systems LaboratoryBioArdavan Pedram is currently a Research Associate at Stanford University Directing the Prism project.
His work on algorithm/architecture codesign of specialized accelerators for linear algebra, machine learning, and signal processing has won two National Science Foundation Awards. Pedram received hi PhD in computer engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2013. -
Norbert Pelc
Boston Scientific Applied Biomedical Engineering Professor, Professor of Bioengineering and of Radiology and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsBroadly, Dr. Pelc is interested in the physics, engineering and mathematics of medical imaging, especially computed tomography, digital x-ray imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, and hybrid multimodality systems. His current research is concentrated in the development of computed tomography systems with higher image quality and dose efficiency, in the characterization of system performance, and in the development and validation of new clinical applications.
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Markus Pelger
Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHis research focuses on understanding and managing financial risk. He develops mathematical financial model, statistical methods, analyzes financial data and engineers computational techniques. His research is divided into three streams: stochastic financial modeling, high-frequency statistics and statistical learning in high-dimensional financial data sets. His most recent work includes developing machine learning solutions to big-data problems in empirical risk management and asset pricing.
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Christopher Perez
Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering, admitted Spring 2018
Masters Student in Mechanical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2017Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHeat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, MEMS, and Product Design.
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Greses Perez-Jöhnk
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2016
Stanford Student Employee, Biology
Cultural Context researcher, Mechanical Engineering - DesignBioGreses is a Ph.D. student in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education (CTE) and Learning Sciences and Technology Design (LSTD) at Stanford University. Her main research interests are located at the intersection of science and engineering education, technology, and bilingualism. In addition to her ongoing work at Stanford in the Science in the City Research Team, Greses seeks to understand the teaching and learning of engineering in the K-12th science classroom and the opportunities to create a language-rich environment for multilingual learners in this context. Before coming to Stanford, she was a bilingual educator at Plano ISD, where she served in the Gifted and Talented Advisory District Committee and the Elementary Curriculum Design team. As a science mentor at a local Museum in Texas, Greses supported the development of teachers by facilitating workshops and creating science classroom kits. She holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Santo Domingo Technological Institute, a M.Eng. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, and a M.Ed. degree in School Leadership from Southern Methodist University. Prior to starting her career in education, Greses was a project manager for engineering programs funded by the EU in the caribbean.
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Adrien Perkins
Ph.D. Student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, admitted Autumn 2014
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAdrien is currently working on using UAVs to rapidly localize sources of GPS interference as well as successfully navigate in GPS denied environments.
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Mats Persson
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Bioengineering
BioMats Persson is a postdoctoral scholar in the department of Bioengineering, Stanford University. During his Ph.D. studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, he worked on developing a photon-counting silicon strip detector for clinical computed tomography (CT) scanners. He also co-founded a start-up company, Prismatic Sensors, as a spin-off from this research. His present research interests include reconstruction and data processing schemes for photon-counting spectral CT, and simulation and modeling of photon-counting detectors.
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Carrie Petersen
Adm Assoc 3, Computer Science
Current Role at StanfordFaculty Administrator
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Dr. Frederik G. Pferdt
Adjunct Professor, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design
BioFrederik is Google's Chief Innovation Evangelist and Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.
His passion is to develop the capacity to innovate in everybody and he believes creativity exists in all of us. He founded and leads a talented team of 300+ Innovation Evangelists which help Googlers solve anything creatively by growing a thriving innovation culture.
Frederik is co-founder of “The Garage”, Google’s hacker/designer/maker space and creator of the CSI:Lab (Creative Skills for Innovation) Laboratory, which develops new innovators and generates hundreds new-to-the-world ideas with more than 450 teams across the organization, from YouTube, Hardware, Android to Sales, the HR team to [x]. As an Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s d.school, he taught over 10 graduate courses like: “Hacking your innovation mindset” and feels lucky to empower students through user-centered, prototype-driven design so that they can do cool things that matter in the world. He was nominated as a visiting scholar at the Center for Design Research, Stanford University and research scholar at EdLab, Columbia University where he researched the convergence of design, technology and education. He is a regular guest speaker at Singularity University to equip leaders to think exponentially and invent a desirable future.
Frederik holds a Master of Science in Business and Human Resource Education from University of Konstanz and a Doctorate in Learning Design & Technology from the University of Paderborn. His creative work on innovation culture, leadership and future technology have earned him invitations to transform an array of Fortune Global 500s, start-ups to schools, to non-profits and governments and were featured in FastCompany, Spiegel Wissen, brandeins, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Der Spiegel, Manager Magazin, FAZ, NZZaS, news.at, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt, Der Standard, Google Asia Blog, Google Blog, Financial Review, GQ, FvF, The Telegraph, Time Magazine, Spiegel Buch, Handelsblatt, Kronen Zeitung, Oggi, El Mercurio, BBC Radio, Ö1 Radio and on VOX TV plus NDR TV.
The "Pope of Creativity" (Focus Magazin) was a Young Leader 2012 in the American Council on Germany, Innopreneur in Residence 2017 at UDE and GTB lists Frederik as one of 50 innovators to look out for in 2017. He currently acts as Innovation Consultant to the United Nations (UN) and is German Football Association’s (DFB) Innovation-Coach.
He currently lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and draws inspiration from the playfulness and explorer mindsets of his three children. -
Rachel Pham
Student Services Officer 1, Electrical Engineering - Student Services
Current Role at StanfordAcademic Affairs & Programs Administrator
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R. Eric Phelts
Engr Res Assoc, Aeronautics and Astronautics
BioR. Eric Phelts is a research engineer in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. His research involves signal monitoring techniques and analysis for SBAS, GBAS, and ARAIM.
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Piero Pianetta
Professor (Research) of Photon Science and of Electrical Engineering
BioPianetta's research is directed towards understanding how the atomic and electronic structure of semiconductor interfaces impacts device technology. His research includes the development of new analytical tools for these studies based on the use of synchrotron radiation. Recent projects include the development of ultrasensitive methods to analyze trace impurities on the surface of silicon wafers at levels as low as 1e-6 monolayer (~1e8 atoms/cm2) and the use of various photoelectron spectroscopies (X-ray photoemission, NEXAFS, X-ray standing waves and photoelectron diffraction) to determine the bonding and atomic structure at the interface between silicon and different passivating layers.
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Laura McClellan Pickel
Academic Staff - Hourly - CSL, Continuing Studies and Summer Session
Adjunct Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering - Design
Hourly Researcher, Mechanical Engineering - DesignBioAfter graduating from Williams College with a double major in Mathematics and Psychology, I worked at CITYterm for three years. CITYterm is an intensive, experience-based residential semester program for 30 intellectually adventuresome 11th and 12th graders that engages students in an interdisciplinary curriculum focused on New York City.
After experimenting with the flipped classroom model, I followed my interest in education technology to Stanford University to pursue a Masters in Learning, Design and Technology.
Since matriculating at Stanford, I've been engaged by the process of Design Thinking and how it might be incorporated in K-12 settings. -
Mr Ryan K Pierce
Lecturer, Bioengineering
Lecturer, BioengineeringBioRyan Pierce is a Lecturer in Bioengineering, and Co-Founder and CEO of Nine, a neonatal/maternal health technology company. He has served as VP of Design and Innovation at Ventus Medical, VP of Business Development at Loma Vista Medical, a healthcare investor at De Novo Ventures, and a product designer at Concentric Medical and The Foundry/Zephyr Medical. He is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Rock Health, a digital health seed fund. An inventor on over two dozen U.S. patents, he holds mechanical engineering degrees from MIT and Stanford, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Mert Pilanci
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
BioMert Pilanci is an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2016. Prior to joining Stanford, he was an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. In 2017, he was a Math+X postdoctoral fellow working with Emmanuel Candès at Stanford University. His research interests are in large scale machine learning, optimization, and information theory.
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Peter M Pinsky
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Civil Engineering
BioPinsky works in the theory and practice of computational mechanics with a particular interest in multiphysics problems in biomechanics. His work uses the close coupling of techniques for molecular, statistical and continuum mechanics with biology, chemistry and clinical science. Areas of current interest include the mechanics of human vision (ocular mechanics) and the mechanics of hearing. Topics in the mechanics of vision include the mechanics of transparency, which investigates the mechanisms by which corneal tissue self-organizes at the molecular scale using collagen-proteoglycan-ion interactions to explain the mechanical resilience and almost perfect transparency of the tissue and to provide a theoretical framework for engineered corneal tissue replacement. At the macroscopic scale, advanced imaging data is used to create detailed models of the 3-D organization of collagen fibrils and the results used to predict outcomes of clinical techniques for improving vision as well as how diseased tissue mechanically degrades. Theories for mass transport and reaction are being developed to model metabolic processes and swelling in tissue. Current topics in the hearing research arena include multiscale modeling of hair-cell mechanics in the inner ear including physical mechanisms for the activation of mechanically-gated ion channels. Supporting research addresses the mechanics of lipid bilayer cell membranes and their interaction with the cytoskeleton. Recent past research topics include computational acoustics for exterior, multifrequency and inverse problems; and multiscale modeling of transdermal drug delivery. Professor Pinsky currently serves as Chair of the Mechanics and Computation Group within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford.
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Ileana Pirozzi
Ph.D. Student in Bioengineering, admitted Autumn 2018
BioIleana Pirozzi, from Colleferro (Roma), Italy, is pursuing a PhD in Bioengineering at Stanford School of Engineering as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. At Brown University, she earned a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering and biomedical engineering. Ileana was a research intern at the NASA Ames Research Center and at the Tripathi Biomedical Engineering Lab at Brown. She was elected President of the Rhode Island Alpha Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honors Society. Additionally, she was named a Vincent and Ruby DiMase Research Fellow at Brown’s School of Engineering and was a recipient of the Domenico Ionata Award for excellence in research and creativity in engineering, the Outstanding Senior in Biomedical Engineering Award, the Distinguished Thesis Prize and the K.T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award. With her Brown-RISD team, EmboNet, she was awarded first prize at the international Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition in the Advanced Healthcare division for their design of an embolic protection device.
