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Helen Phillips
Master of Arts Student in International Policy, admitted Autumn 2023
Threshold Ventures Fellowship Teaching Assistant, Management Science and Engineering - Technology Ventures ProgramBioHelen Phillips joins the Master’s in International Policy (MIP) program after working for six years at the intersection of dual-use startups, venture capital, and the federal government. Most recently, Helen was on the investment team at Booz Allen Ventures, the $100M corporate venture capital (CVC) fund of Booz Allen. Helen supported the deal process end-to-end, from sourcing defense tech startups to developing business cases and facilitating value creation for portfolio companies. Prior to joining the CVC team, Helen led tech scouting projects for senior Department of Defense (DoD) clients, researching and integrating dual-use startups against specific requirements. Helen has also conducted extensive research on foreign investment/adversary capital in the context of great power competition, assessing foreign influence in the U.S. startup ecosystem.
Helen has deep familiarity and experience with policies and organizations that help startups work with the federal government (e.g., SBIR/STTR, SBA’s SBIC program, dual-use/defense-oriented VCs and CVCs, etc.). At Stanford, Helen is continuing her work and research in defense tech, policy, and venture capital through the International Security concentration in the MIP program. In her spare time, she loves to be active outside and enjoys triathlons, cycling, pickleball, hiking, and camping. -
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 pertaining to advanced semiconductors and photocathodes. His research includes the development of new analytical tools for these studies based on the use of synchrotron radiation. These 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. Recent projects include the development of high resolution (~30nm) x-ray spectromicroscopy with applications to energy materials such as Li batteries.
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Mr Ryan K Pierce
Adjunct Lecturer, Bioengineering
BioRyan 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 30 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
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Pilanci's research interests include neural networks, machine learning, mathematical optimization, information theory and signal processing.
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Peter Pinsky
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus
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.
