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Noah Benjamin-Pollak
Ph.D. Student in Management Science and Engineering, admitted Autumn 2022
BioNoah Benjamin-Pollak (noahabp@stanford.edu) is a PhD candidate in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. He is a member of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization (WTO). His research focuses on how different professions interact, particularly how authority and expertise are utilized in cross-occupational contexts. His current research uses ethnographic methods to understand cross-occupational collaboration between engineers and traditional business employees. Additionally, he is focused on understanding how expertise and expert authority are built and communicated between experts and non-expert audiences.
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Stivi Canka
Masters Student in Management Science and Engineering, admitted Autumn 2026
BioI am a master's student in Management Science & Engineering, working on optimization and machine learning applied to the infrastructure that makes the world run, spanning manufacturing, logistics, and connectivity.
My background is in economics and mathematics, followed by work in market risk and in technology risk consulting. Across both, the recurring pattern was the same: most of the world is a set of large, poorly specified optimization problems, and comparatively few of them have been solved. At Stanford I am focused on the computational and statistical tools for attacking these problems at scale, with a particular interest in operations problems in emerging markets.
Outside my coursework, I founded Albanian Trailblazers, a mentorship network connecting Albanian students from disadvantaged backgrounds with mentors across more than twenty countries. -
Nirjhar Das
Ph.D. Student in Management Science and Engineering, admitted Autumn 2026
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research interests are in computational economics and social choice, learning theory, and algorithms in general. I also enjoy high dimensional probability and its applications. With a focus on theoretical models and provable algorithms, I want to understand interaction of artificial intelligence (AI) and society and the nuances therein.
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Martin Jose Gonzalez
Ph.D. Student in Management Science and Engineering, admitted Autumn 2025
BioA PhD student in Management Science & Engineering, Martin researches the impact of AI on organizations through the Center for Work, Technology and Organization.
With master's degrees from Columbia and the London School of Economics, Martin frequently lectures at top-tier institutions including Stanford, Wharton, and INSEAD. His professional background includes roles at BCG and Google, where he focused on organizational design, cultural transformation, and leadership development. -
Yinbin Han
Ph.D. Student in Management Science and Engineering, admitted Autumn 2025
BioYinbin Han is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at the Stanford University. Before joining Stanford, Yinbin was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Finance and Risk Engineering at the New York University from 2024 - 2025 and in the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California from 2021 - 2024. Yinbin is fortunate to be co-advised by Prof. Renyuan Xu (Stanford) and Prof. Meisam Razaviyayn (USC). Yinbin obtained his B.S. in Mathematics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, where he was advised by Prof. Zizhuo Wang. Yinbin's research interests include diffusion models, reinforcement learning, stochastic control and nonconvex optimization.
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Kent Hippler
Ph.D. Student in Management Science and Engineering, admitted Summer 2025
BioKent Hippler is a PhD student in the Decision and Risk Analysis (DARA) Group in Stanford's Department of Management Science and Engineering, advised by Dr. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell. His current research focuses on risk attitudes in AI Decision Support Systems.
Prior to pursuing his PhD, Kent served as a Nuclear Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy, supporting three western Pacific deployments aboard the USS Anchorage and USS Theodore Roosevelt. He later worked as a Systems Engineer at Maxar Technologies and a Software Engineer at Amazon. Kent holds a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering, summa cum laude, from the University of Florida (2016) and an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford (2025), where he worked with the Language Data and Reasoning Lab under the advisement of Dr. Amin Saberi.
