Stanford University
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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. -
Julia Hirsch
Ph.D. Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2021
Master of Arts Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2025BioJulia Hirsch is a Ph.D. student in the Religious Studies Department at Stanford University, where she focuses on Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. She holds a B.A. from Boston College in Philosophy with minors in Psychoanalytics and Women’s & Gender Studies (2015). She received her M.A. in the History of Art and Archaeology: Religious Arts of Asia from SOAS University of London (2020).
Julia’s current research explores Buddhist material religion and visual culture, power objects, and ritual from an art-historical perspective. Of particular interest are relic cults, funerary rites, and the importance—and soteriological potential—of sensory encounter in South Asian and Himalayan traditions.
Prior to joining Stanford, Julia worked for several years at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, where she continues to serve as a contributing editor covering Buddhist art, film, and publishing. -
Frances Hisgen
Juris Doctor Student, Law
BioFrances Hisgen is a current JD candidate at Stanford Law. She was previously the senior research program manager for the program on the US, China, and the World at the Hoover Institution, where she also serves as key personnel for the National Science Foundation’s SECURE program, a $67 million effort authorized by the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 to enhance the security and integrity of the US research enterprise. Prior to joining Hoover, she worked at the American Chamber of Commerce (Hong Kong), at Caixin (Beijing), and at ChinaFile at the Asia Society's Center for US-China Relations. Hisgen earned an MPhil in World History at the University of Cambridge (UK), where she was the Paul Williams Fellow at Emmanuel College, and received her AB in History from Harvard College. Her academic work on the movement of people, ideas, and commodities spurred by European and American imperialism in greater China in the 18th through 20th centuries has been presented at the Cambridge World History Workshop, the Women's History Network Conference, and been supported by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. In addition to her work at Hoover, she is a Foreign Policy for America Next Generation Fellow in the 2024 cohort, as well as a 2024 New Voice in New America's Out in National Security initiative.
