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Drew Nelson
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus
BioResearch involves development of improved methods for predicting the fatigue life of engineering materials, incuding the effects of manufacturing processes, and investigation of new approaches in the field of experimental mechanics, such as determination of residual stresses using optical methods.
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Juyoung Oh
Postdoctoral Scholar, Mechanical Engineering
BioJuyoung Oh is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University. Her research focuses on understanding and harnessing thermal runaway phenomena in rechargeable batteries to enable controllable propulsion thrust. With a strong background in the thermochemical analysis of metal-based solid energetic materials, her work aims to elucidate the fundamental mechanisms governing thermal runaway in lithium-metal batteries, with particular emphasis on interfacial chemistry and thermodynamic behavior. Through this approach, she seeks to integrate battery and thruster functionalities into a unified system, advancing next-generation aerospace–battery technologies.
Prior to joining Stanford, Dr. Oh was a Postdoctoral Associate at Rice University. She received her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University (SNU). Her academic achievements include the Best Doctoral Thesis Award (2022) and the Korean-American Women in Science and Engineering (KWiSE) Young Scientist Scholarship (2025). -
Allison Okamura
Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on developing the principles and tools needed to realize advanced robotic and human-machine systems capable of physical interaction. Application areas include surgery, simulation and training, rehabilitation, prosthetics, neuromechanics, exploration of hazardous and remote environments (e.g. space), design, and education.
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Apoorva Reddy Parvathgari
Affiliate, Mechanical Engineering - Flow Physics and Computation
BioI am a doctoral researcher in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. My work focuses on aerodynamics, flow physics, and aeroelastic instabilities of finite wings, leveraging high-fidelity simulations and high-performance computing (HPC).
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Marco Pavone
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
BioDr. Marco Pavone is a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, where he directs the Autonomous Systems Laboratory. He is also a Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA where he leads autonomous vehicle research. Before joining Stanford, he was a Research Technologist within the Robotics Section at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. His main research interests are in the development of methodologies for the analysis, design, and control of autonomous systems, with an emphasis on self-driving cars, autonomous aerospace vehicles, and future mobility systems. He is a recipient of a number of awards, including a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Barack Obama, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, a National Science Foundation Early Career (CAREER) Award, a NASA Early Career Faculty Award, and an Early-Career Spotlight Award from the Robotics Science and Systems Foundation. He was identified by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) as one of America's 20 most highly promising investigators under the age of 40. His work has been recognized with best paper nominations or awards at a number of venues, including the European Conference on Computer Vision, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, the European Control Conference, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, the Field and Service Robotics Conference, the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, and the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
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William Paxton
Visiting Scholar, Mechanical Engineering - Design
BioWilliam A. Paxton is a Visiting Scholar in the Quantum Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, hosted by Professor Fritz B. Prinz. He concurrently serves as Senior Staff Scientist and Project Lead at Volkswagen Group of America’s Innovation and Engineering Center California in Belmont, California where he works on energy storage, electric vehicle, and sustainability topics.
Prior to Volkswagen, Paxton spent six years at Ford Motor Company; first as a Energy Storage Materials Research Engineer in Energy Storage in Dearborn, Michigan and then as Technology Scout and Project Lead for Battery and Charging at Ford’s Research and Innovation Center in Palo Alto, California.
William holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Rutgers University, is named inventor on six US patents, and his peer-reviewed work has been cited more than 1,700 times.
At Stanford, his research interest is on next-generation energy-storage devices for mobility applications. -
Crystal Pennywell
Faculty Affairs and Staffing Manager, Mechanical Engineering
Current Role at StanfordFaculty Affairs & Staffing Manager in the Mechanical Engineering Department
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Teresa Perez
Student Tour Guide, Contingent
Undergraduate, Mechanical EngineeringBioI am an undergraduate student studying Mechanical Engineering with an interest in sustainability. I am involved with the S4 lab under the Electrical Engineering department doing research in ocean sensing technology. I also have experience with Flight Club's Solar Airplane team developing aerodynamic components for a 2-meter wingspan autonomous airplane. Outside of my engineering pursuits, I work as a Stanford Tour Guide and a trip leader for the Outdoor Center.
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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.
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Friedrich Prinz
Leonardo Professor, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, of Materials Science and Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
On Partial Leave from 2026-10-01 To 2026-12-31BioFritz Prinz is the Leonardo Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy. He also serves as the Director of the Nanoscale Prototyping Laboratory and Faculty Co-director of the NPL-Affiliate Program. A solid-state physicist by training, Prinz leads a group of doctoral students, postdoctoral scholars, and visiting scholars who are addressing fundamental issues on energy conversion and storage at the nanoscale. In his Laboratory, a wide range of nano-fabrication technologies are employed to build prototype fuel cells and capacitors with induced topological electronic states. We are testing these concepts and novel material structures through atomic layer deposition, scanning tunneling microscopy, impedance spectroscopy and other technologies. In addition, the Prinz group group uses atomic scale modeling to gain insights into the nature of charge separation and recombination processes. Before coming to Stanford in 1994, he was on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. Prinz earned a PhD in Physics at the University of Vienna.
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Alejandro Pulido
Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering
BioSophomore in the class of 2028 studying Mechanical Engineering!
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Jaime Rebollar
Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering
BioI’m an aspiring mechanical engineer with a strong interest in using design and innovation to solve real-world problems. My goal is to make STEM education more accessible in underserved communities by mentoring youth, leading outreach efforts, and creating opportunities. I hope to combine engineering, education, and entrepreneurship to build a more inclusive and impactful future.
