School of Engineering
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James Filice
Science and Engineering Associate/Machinist, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Current Role at StanfordDesign and Fabrication support to CEE Department with Machining, Drawing, NC programing and manufacturing, Welding, and wood working equipment.
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Martin Fischer
Kumagai Professor in the School of Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
On Leave from 04/01/2026 To 06/30/2026BioProfessor Fischer's research goals are to improve the productivity of project teams involved in designing, building, and operating facilities and to enhance the sustainability of the built environment. His work develops the theoretical foundations and applications for virtual design and construction (VDC). VDC methods support the design of a facility and its delivery process and help reduce the costs and maximize the value over its lifecycle. His research has been used by many small and large industrial government organizations around the world.
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Sarah Fletcher
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Center Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe Fletcher Lab aims to advance water resources management to promote resilient and equitable responses to a changing world.
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June Flora
Sr. Research Scholar
BioJune A. Flora, PhD, is a senior research scientist at Stanford University’s Human Sciences & Technologies Advanced Research Institute (HSTAR) in the Graduate School of Education, and the Solutions Science Lab in the Stanford School of Medicine. June's research focuses on understanding the drivers of human behavior change and the potential of communication interventions. The research is solution focused on behavior change relevant to health and climate change.
Most recently she is studying the role of energy use feedback delivered through motivationally framed online applications; the potential of children and youth delivered energy reduction interventions to motivate parent behavior change, and the effects of entertainment-education interventions to change behavior.
June earned her Ph.D. from Arizona State University in educational psychology. She has held faculty positions at University of Utah and Stanford University. -
David Freyberg
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy students and I study sediment and water balances in aging reservoirs, collaborative governance of transnational fresh waters, the design of centralized and decentralized wastewater collection, treatment, and reuse systems in urban areas, and hydrologic ecosystem services in urban areas and in systems for which sediment production, transport, and deposition have significant consequences.
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Oliver Fringer
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Oceans
BioFringer's research focuses on the development and application of numerical models and high-performance computational techniques to the study of fundamental processes that influence the dynamics of the coastal ocean, rivers, lakes, and estuaries.
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Jiechao Gao
Postdoctoral Scholar, Civil and Environmental Engineering
BioJiechao Gao is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Stanford University's Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and dual B.S. degrees in Applied Physics and Financial Engineering from Jilin University. Prior to joining Stanford, he served as an Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University.
His research spans federated learning, large language model (LLM) interpretability and efficiency, reinforcement learning, and privacy-preserving AI, with applications in healthcare, smart buildings, IoV, and finance. He has published extensively at top venues including ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, EMNLP, KDD, CVPR, ACL, etc. He serves as Area Chair or Senior Program Committee member for conferences such as ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, EMNLP, KDD, IJCAI, IJCNN, ICASSP, and reviews for journals such as JMLR, IEEE IoT-J, and IEEE TITS. His recognitions include the Google HE Faculty AI Fellowship (2026), Stanford/Elsevier Global Top 2% Scientists (2024 & 2025), and multiple Best Paper Nominations. -
Catherine Gorle
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and, by courtesy, of Mechanical Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsGorle's research focuses on the development of predictive flow simulations to support the design of sustainable buildings and cities. Specific topics of interest are the coupling of large- and small-scale models and experiments to quantify uncertainties related to the variability of boundary conditions, the development of uncertainty quantification methods for low-fidelity models using high-fidelity data, and the use of field measurements to validate and improve computational predictions.
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Zhili He
Graduate Visiting Researcher Student, Civil & Envir Engr
BioZhili He is a Visiting PhD Student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, working with Prof. Hae Young Noh. He is currently pursuing his PhD at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology under the supervision of Prof. Yu-Hsing Wang.
His research lies at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence for the built environment. His current work focuses on autonomous quadruped robot systems, SLAM, 3D building digitalization, BIM, large language models, and AI-driven structural inspection.
He has published research in leading journals including Information Fusion and Automation in Construction. His long-term goal is to develop intelligent robotic systems that enable autonomous inspection, digitalization, and maintenance of civil infrastructure. -
Lynn Hildemann
Wayne Loel Professor of Sustainability and Senior Associate Dean for Education
On Leave from 04/01/2026 To 06/30/2026BioLynn Hildemann's current research areas include the sources and dispersion of airborne particulate matter indoors, and assessment of human exposure to air pollutants.
Prof. Hildemann received BS, MS, and PhD degrees in environmental engineering science from the California Institute of Technology. She is an author on >100 peer-reviewed publications, including two with over 1000 citations each, and another 6 with over 500 citations each. She has been honored with Young Investigator Awards from NSF and ONR, the Kenneth T. Whitby Award from the AAAR (1998), and Stanford's Gores Award for Teaching Excellence (2013); she also was a co-recipient of Atmospheric Environment’s Haagen-Smit Outstanding Paper Award (2001).
She has served on advisory committees for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and for the California Air Resources Board. She has been an Associate Editor for Environmental Science & Technology, and Aerosol Science and Technology, and has served on the advisory board for the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
At Stanford, Prof. Hildemann has been chair of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and served as an elected member of the Faculty Senate. She has chaired the School of Engineering Library Committee, the University Committee on Judicial Affairs, and the University Breadth Governance Board. -
Mark Z. Jacobson
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute for Energy
BioMark Z. Jacobson’s career has focused on better understanding air pollution and global warming problems and developing large-scale clean, renewable energy solutions to them. Toward that end, he has developed and applied three-dimensional atmosphere-biosphere-ocean computer models and solvers to simulate air pollution, weather, climate, and renewable energy. He has also developed roadmaps to transition states and countries to 100% clean, renewable energy for all purposes and computer models to examine grid stability in the presence of high penetrations of renewable energy.
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Rishee Jain
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
BioProfessor Jain's research focuses on the development of data-driven and socio-technical solutions to sustainability problems facing the urban built environment. His work lies at the intersection of civil engineering, data analytics and social science. Recently, his research has focused on understanding the socio-spatial dynamics of commercial building energy usage, conducting data-driven benchmarking and sustainability planning of urban buildings and characterizing the coupled dynamics of urban systems using data science and micro-experimentation. For more information, see the active projects on his lab (Stanford Urban Informatics Lab) website.
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Hyunmin Kang
Affiliate, Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness
BioHyunmin Kang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Daegu Univeristy in South Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Engineering at Yonsei University. He conducts research within the Human-Urban Interaction pillar, examining the interactions between humans, cities, culture, transportation, technology, and services based on psychological and human factors theories. His research particularly utilizes quantitative and qualitative analysis, big data analytics, and metaverse technologies. His goal is to conduct research that contributes to improving the lives of people living in urban environments by deepening the understanding of human behavior.
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Anthony Kinslow II
Lecturer
BioAnthony, the Founder and CEO of Gemini Energy Solutions, is an expert in energy efficiency analytics and building science and a research-oriented practitioner who utilizes best practices from around the world to develop innovative solutions for his clients. His company's focus is reflective of Anthony's mission in life — making a meaningful impact on mitigating global warming. In Gemini, Anthony has created a vehicle to engage, educate, and energize underrepresented minority communities and the underserved small commercial building market in energy efficiency. Under Anthony’s leadership, Gemini is implementing strategies for overcoming cultural and socio-economic barriers that prevent the vast majority of Americans from being aware or engaged in energy efficiency. Operating nationwide, the company also partners with municipalities — such as San Francisco International Airport and Memphis, TN — to support their efforts to meet their climate change goals and increase economic resiliency through energy efficiency.
Education:
PhD, Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering
MS, Stanford University, Sustainable Design and Construction
BS, North Carolina A&T State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Racial Equity in Energy
Quest for an Inclusive Clean Energy Economy -
Sam Kipper
Ph.D. Student in Civil and Environmental Engineering, admitted Summer 2026
BioMy name is Samantha Kipper, and I am a graduate student in Civil and Environmental Engineering. My research focuses on offshore wind energy, and I aim to make the world a better place through technical, sustainable energy solutions.
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Anne Kiremidjian
The C.L. Peck, Class of 1906 Professor in the School of Engineering, Emerita
BioKiremidjian’s research focuses in two main areas. The first is in earthquake hazard, risk, and resilience modeling. She works on structural component and systems reliability methods; structural damage evaluation models; and regional damage, loss and casualty estimation methods utilizing geographic information and database management systems for portfolios of buildings or spatially distributed lifeline systems assessment with ground motion and structure correlations. Her current research has focused on the development of time dependent hazard and risk models for resilience evaluation of hospitals, schools and financial instruments. In the area of time dependent risk assessment, she has developed models for damage estimation of deteriorating structures in varying environmental conditions.
The second area of research focuses on the design and implementation of wireless sensor networks for health monitoring of structures under every-day loading conditions, and the development of robust and computationally efficient algorithms for structural damage diagnosis following extreme events that can be embedded in wireless sensing units. The damage algorithms utilize modern data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence methods. -
Peter K. Kitanidis
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
BioKitanidis develops methods for the solution of interpolation and inverse problems utilizing observations and mathematical models of flow and transport. He studies dilution and mixing of soluble substances in heterogeneous geologic formations, issues of scale in mass transport in heterogeneous porous media, and techniques to speed up the decay of pollutants in situ. He also develops methods for hydrologic forecasting and the optimization of sampling and control strategies.
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Yun-Dam Ko
Ph.D. Student in Civil and Environmental Engineering, admitted Autumn 2024
BioYun-Dam Ko's research focuses on combining data-driven solutions with building physics to enhance the sustainability of the urban built environment. His recent work leverages AI to optimize building energy performance, with a specific focus on intelligent HVAC system control and advanced Building Energy Modeling. Bridging research and practice, he previously worked at a startup where he developed and deployed AI solutions to improve building energy efficiency at scale.
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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. -
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.
