Stanford University
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Jeffrey Decker
Program Director, Precourt Institute for Energy
BioJeff Decker is managing director of the Technology Transition for Defense Program and co-instructor of Hacking for Defense course at Stanford University. Hacking for Defense uses the Lean Startup technique to tackle complex problems critical to the government around national security, energy networks, cyber security, and AI, and develop new technologies with teams of engineers, scientists, MBA’s and policy experts. With the program, Jeff has taught more than 300 students, faculty, and government personnel user-centered design from over 2 dozen colleges and universities, helping them solve more than 75 unique national security challenges for the Defense Department and related industries. Several student teams have gone on to form companies winning Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, gaining venture capital funding, and one team even became a program of record. Jeff’s work and research focuses generally on defense innovation and dual-use technologies, with a focus on developing go-to-defense market strategies for technology startups and fostering defense-industry partnerships. With his Lean Startup experience and expertise with Hacking for Defense, plus his military service, Jeff is a sought-after expert when it comes to national security and solving Defense Department challenges.
Jeff served in the U.S. Army as a 2nd Ranger Battalion light infantry squad leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Following his service, he earned a MS in International Relations (Laws), and a doctorate in International Relations before conducting national security and international affairs research at the RAND Corporation. -
Mike Decker
Senior Web Developer, Stanford Web Services
BioDrupal developer.
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Niki DeGeorge
Division Manager, Radiation Oncology
Current Role at StanfordNiki is the Division Manager for Medical Physics in the Department of Radiation Oncology.
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Tina M. Del Cont
Product & Program Manager, Stanford Profiles, Technology & Digital Solutions
Current Role at StanfordI am the Product Manager for Stanford Profiles and Project Manager of the Stanford Profiles University-Wide Project. I work directly with the Stanford Profiles development team in Stanford Medicine | Technology & Digital Solutions Application Development. On this project, I also work with a university-wide project team, the Stanford Profiles (formerly CAP) Working Group, made up of members from many of the Stanford schools and organizations. In June of 2014, we started the CAP Drupal Module Working Group. The purpose of this group is to review and improve the integration process with CAP by expanding and enhancing the CAP Drupal Module (CAPx) with an open-source contribution approach (an initiative started and led by SWS in collaboration with the CAP Drupal Module user community).
If you are interested in becoming part of the Stanford Profiles University-Wide Project, which includes the Stanford Profiles Public and Stanford-only View web sites or would like more information on integrating your web site with Stanford Profiles, contact me at tdelcont@stanford.edu. -
Erlynn Dela Cruz
Administrative Associate, Pediatrics - Endocrinology
Current Role at StanfordAdministrative Associate
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Juan Delgado
Casual - Non-Exempt, Epidemiology and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordResearch Assistant - Urologic Cancer Epidemiology Lab
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Nick Delurgio
Course Asst-Graduate, Aeronautics and Astronautics
BioNick Delurgio is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Nick previously received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, where he developed in interest in Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) for Aerospace applications. At Stanford, Nick is pursuing his interest in GNC through Distributed Space Systems (DSS) research, advised by Professor Simone D'Amico. Nick's research involves the development of dynamics, guidance, and control strategies for RPOD missions in eccentric orbits, as well as creating reduced order modeling techniques to simplify formation flying mission design.
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Jeffrey B. Demain
Lecturer, Law Teaching
BioJeffrey B. Demain is a partner emeritus at Altshuler Berzon LLP, a San Francisco public interest law firm, where for 36 years he practiced labor and employment, civil rights, and First Amendment law, representing international, national, regional, state-wide, and local labor unions, trust funds, public interest organizations, public entities, and individuals in numerous cases before trial and appellate courts in the federal and state systems, as well as before administrative agencies and arbitrators. In addition to litigation, Jeff regularly advised clients on legal matters, legislation, and regulatory compliance, and represented them in collective bargaining negotiations and government investigations, especially with regard to the National Labor Relations Act, the Labor Management Relations Act, and the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act. He also specialized in defending freedom of speech and the right to petition government under California’s anti-SLAPP law.
Jeff has been listed in “The Best Lawyers in America” since 2006; in “Northern California Superlawyers” for labor and employment law since 2009; and in the “Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers” since 2019. He was named the 2022 “Lawyer of the Year” for “Employment law – Individuals” in San Francisco by “The Best Lawyers in America.”
Jeff received his B.A. from Brandeis University, where he graduated summa cum laude and received highest departmental honors and the Louis D. Brandeis Scholar award; he received his M.A. from the University of California, Irvine, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow; and he received his J.D. from the law school at UC Berkeley, where he was Order of the Coif. Before he began his practice, he served as a law clerk to Chief Judge James R. Browning of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Representative matters:
Obtained a ruling that a national aluminum manufacturer violated the National Labor Relations Act by unlawfully locking out 3,000 of its employees, and ordering it to pay them what was, at that time, thought to be the highest backpay award in the history of the Act.
Obtained a defense verdict following a ten-week federal court jury trial in a multi-million-dollar lawsuit seeking to impose vicarious liability on a union for alleged post-strike harassment of strike breakers by union members who had participated in a nationwide strike.
Overturned on appeal a California Superior Court decision approving a settlement agreement that impaired the statutory and contractual rights of public school teachers over the objection of the teachers’ union (which had not agreed to the settlement), on the grounds that the approval of the settlement violated the teachers’ due process right to an adjudication of the merits of the underlying claim and the requirements of the California statute regarding judgments based on settlements.
Obtained an appellate reversal of a jury verdict holding a union and individual strikers liable to a strike breaker for picket-line speech.
Obtained an appellate reversal of a California Superior Court decision denying a motion under California’s anti-SLAPP statute to dismiss a civil lawsuit seeking money damages for a union’s alleged conduct in assisting the General Counsel of California’s Agricultural Labor Relations Board to prosecute the union’s unfair labor practice charge.
Obtained a dismissal under California’s anti-SLAPP statute of a lawsuit seeking to impose tort liability on a public sector union for its proposals in collective bargaining.
Successfully defended on appeal a dismissal under California’s anti-SLAPP statute of a malicious prosecution lawsuit against a public sector union arising from charges the union had filed against an employer with California’s Public Employment Relations Board.
