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Nick Swan
Student Services Officer 2, Physics
Current Role at StanfordStudent Services Officer, Physics Department.
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Patrick David Swanson
Graduate, Communication
BioPatrick Swanson is an Austrian-American digital journalist with ten years of experience at the intersection of news and tech. He is currently a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, researching AI's impact on the information ecosystem, particularly focusing on the media, journalism and elections. He is collaborating with computer scientists to create AI tools for reporters and editors, working on AI policy and ethics, as well as exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on the media business.
Previously, Patrick founded and led the social media team at Austria's largest newsroom. In this role, he oversaw news coverage for an audience of 2.4 million followers on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook, and pioneered strategies against misinformation and hate speech. He covered a wide range of issues from the European refugee crisis to wars, global elections, and the pandemic. As a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna from 2015 to 2022, Patrick taught courses on fact-checking to combat viral misinformation. In 2019, he won Austria's prestigious Walther Rode Prize for his coverage of the 'Ibiza scandal'. -
James Sweeney
Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, at the Precourt Institute for Energy and, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDeterminants of energy efficiency opportunities, barriers, and policy options. Emphasis on behavioral issues, including personal, corporate, or organizational. Behavior may be motivated by economic incentives, social, or cultural factors, or more generally, by a combination of these factors. Systems analysis questions of energy use.
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Paul Switzer
Professor of Statistics and of Environmental Earth System Science, Emeritus
BioDr. Switzer's research interests are in the development of statistical tools for the environmental sciences. Recent research has focused on the interpretation of environmental monitoring data, design of monitoring networks, detection of time trends in environmental and climatic paramenters, modeling of human exposure to pollutants, statistical evaluation of numerical climate models and error estimation for spatial mapping.
