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  • John Fox

    John Fox

    Adjunct Professor, Applied Physics

    BioStanford University Research areas center on optimal control methods to improve energy
    efficiency and resource allocation in plug-in hybrid vehicles. Stanford graduate and undergraduate courses
    taught in laboratory techniques and electronic instrumentation. Undergraduate seminar
    "Energy Choices for the 21st Century". Faculty Advisor for the Stanford Solar Car team.

    Accelerator Physics Research areas center on RF systems and beam dynamics, instability control for
    particle accelerators, technology development for beam instrumentation. Group leader for
    LARP projects in LHC LLRF techniques and feedback control of electron-cloud
    instabilities in SPS and LHC. Extensive experience with beam feedback systems, digital
    signal processing techniques, accelerator dynamics and instrumentation for
    electron/positron and hadron synchrotrons and storage rings, LINAC systems.

    Research and thesis supervision for Stanford Ph.D. and M.S. students in Applied Physics
    and Electrical Engineering. Two supervised students awarded American Physical Society
    Ph.D. Dissertation Prizes in Beam Physics (Shyam Prabhakar, Dmitry Teytelman). Ph.D.
    student Themis Mastorides awarded the 2010 Toohig Fellowship in Accelerator Physics
    at the LHC. Two supervised Ph.D. students now faculty at University of Singapore and
    California Polytechnic University.

    Fellow American Physical Society, division of Physics of Beams
    Dean's award for Disntinuished Teaching 2000
    Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching - Lifetime Achievement 2024

    I have advised 5 Ph.D. students through to completion of the Ph.D.. I have supervised 13
    M.S. students in the areas of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering

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