Stanford University
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Atindra Jha
Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2026
Research Engineer, Program-Leskovec, J.BioI am a PhD student advised by Jure Leskovec and Percy Liang. I work on efficient and performant large-scale distributed data processing (currently, agentic and mixed-modal inference), natural language processing, and machine learning. I also work with Stephanie Wang, Baris Kasikci, and Luke Zettlemoyer at the University of Washington. I completed by B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science at Stanford, advised by Prof. Mark Horowitz, and affiliated with the Portal Center, AHA! Agile Hardware Center, and the Stanford VLSI Group.
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Kian Katanforoosh
Adjunct Lecturer, Computer Science
BioKian Katanforoosh is a computer scientist and lecturer at Stanford University, where he teaches Deep Learning in the Computer Science department with Prof. Andrew Ng. He is a founding member of DeepLearning.AI, co-creator of the Deep Learning Specialization on Coursera, and founder of Workera (www.workera.ai), a self-assessment platform where people evaluate their job competencies with AI-powered assessments and find their career pathways. From 2014 to 2016, Kian co-founded and co-led Daskit, a French start-up developing in-classroom ed-tech solutions for universities.
Kian holds Master's degrees from Stanford University and Ecole CentraleSupelec (formerly Ecole Centrale Paris). At Stanford, he received both the Walter J. Gores award (Stanford’s highest teaching award) and the Centennial award for Excellence in teaching.
His family migrated from Iran to France, and he grew up next to Paris.
