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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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Casey Decosto
Ph.D. Student in Chemistry, admitted Autumn 2021
BioCassandra (Casey) Mendoza Decosto (she/they) is a proud first-generation Filipina American from Los Angeles, California. A Pasadena City College alumna who transferred to CSU-Los Angeles, she previously studied singlet-oxygen photochemistry with Prof. Matthias Selke. Now, as a Chemistry Ph.D. candidate in Prof. Laura Dassama’s lab, she leverages bioinformatic and biochemical approaches to discover novel proteins that drive metabolite trafficking, membrane remodeling, and antibiotic evasion in bacterial pathogens such as Treponema pallidum. As a CBI ChEM-H and EDGE fellow, Casey works to increase educational and research access on and off campus through programs like Stanford’s Community College Outreach Program (CCOP).
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Bart Roger Decrem
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
BioFor the past year, Bart Decrem has been exploring agentic uses of AI across creativity, science, and community, building proofs of concept ranging from an AI research agent running on a knowledge graph of 200,000+ papers, to a command-line music studio. During his fellowship year, Decrem will explore human flourishing after AGI: if superintelligence arrives over the next few years, how can it be a supercharged "bicycle for the mind" rather than a path to cognitive surrender? He will host conversations with leading thinkers and ship app prototypes exploring these issues.
Decrem has spent decades building technology for impact, community, and curiosity. In open source, he co-founded Eazel and the GNOME Foundation to make Linux easier to use, and ran marketing and business affairs for the Firefox 1.0, helping to preserve the open internet.
As a fellow at Echoing Green, the leading social entrepreneurship program, Decrem started Plugged In, one of the first Digital Divide programs in the nation, bridging East Palo Alto and Silicon Valley, and chaired the national Community Technology Centers Network. He co-founded Full Circle Fund, a community of entrepreneurs coming together to partner with community groups and tackle important local issues. More recently, he co-founded and ran Mozilla Builders, supporting 100+ community activists and early-stage founders.
Decrem earned his JD at Stanford Law School. He is a practitioner fellow at CASBS.
