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Ross Alexander
Ph.D. Student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, admitted Winter 2021
Masters Student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, admitted Autumn 2019BioRoss earned his Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2019. In his four years at Texas A&M, Ross developed a strong technical background through his work in trajectory modeling & simulation and propulsion system design on the Texas A&M University Sounding Rocketry Team and also through three internships at aerospace research & development (R&D) companies. Ross built his teaching experience by serving as a teaching assistant for several undergraduate mathematics and numerical simulation courses. Ross is now a second-year graduate student at Stanford University pursuing a Ph.D. in Aeronautics & Astronautics and is also the recipient of a Stanford Graduate Fellowship (SGF) in Science & Engineering. As a researcher in the Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab (SISL), Ross works on developing principled methods for algorithmic decision making under uncertainty utilizing approaches involving machine learning and artificial intelligence. Ross’s research has led to collaborations across the globe on topics spanning multidisciplinary design optimization, autonomous driving, and COVID-19. Ross continues to build his teaching career as a course assistant for graduate-level computer science courses and as an Artificial Intelligence course instructor for the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies Institute.
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Juan Alonso
Vance D. and Arlene C. Coffman Professor
On Partial Leave from 10/01/2020 To 06/30/2021BioProf. Alonso is the founder and director of the Aerospace Design Laboratory (ADL) where he specializes in the development of high-fidelity computational design methodologies to enable the creation of realizable and efficient aerospace systems. Prof. Alonso’s research involves a large number of different manned and unmanned applications including transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic aircraft, helicopters, turbomachinery, and launch and re-entry vehicles. He is the author of over 200 technical publications on the topics of computational aircraft and spacecraft design, multi-disciplinary optimization, fundamental numerical methods, and high-performance parallel computing. Prof. Alonso is keenly interested in the development of an advanced curriculum for the training of future engineers and scientists and has participated actively in course-development activities in both the Aeronautics & Astronautics Department (particularly in the development of coursework for aircraft design, sustainable aviation, and UAS design and operation) and for the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) at Stanford University. He was a member of the team that currently holds the world speed record for human powered vehicles over water. A student team led by Prof. Alonso also holds the altitude record for an unmanned electric vehicle under 5 lbs of mass.
