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Michael Azgour
Fall 2026 CSP course ART 98 W, Continuing Studies
BioMichael Azgour is an artist and educator whose work addresses the impact of digital imagery on contemporary culture. His paintings combine evocative, expressive representation with geometric abstraction, reflecting upon memory, technology, and change. Azgour’s award-winning paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe, including solo shows at the Art Museum of Los Gatos, CA and Hohmann Fine Art in Palm Desert, CA, as well as Art Fairs such as Art Market San Francisco and Los Angeles Art Show. His work is part of dozens of collections, including a recent commission by Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Michael has exhibited alongside a number of highly respected artists such as Joan Brown, Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and Nathan Oliveira. Azgour regularly delivers public presentations, workshops, and artist presentations, including TEDx Krakow in 2017. Michael teaches drawing and painting courses at Stanford University. His teaching experience has included a wide array of subject matter, primarily in fine arts, but also in graphic design, architecture, arts entrepreneurship, and history of art and design.
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Yousuf Azhar
Affiliate, Continuing Studies
BioYousuf Azhar is a memoirist and fiction writer. Born in India and raised in California, he lives in Tracy, in the Central Valley, and works in tech in the Bay Area.
He completed Stanford Continuing Studies' Online Certificate Program in Memoir Writing in 2026 and is now at work on a memoir about his thirteen years in a high-control Sufi group. He writes about that experience in his Substack newsletter, "Sacred Learning: A Memoir," and he discussed spiritual manipulation and charismatic leadership as a guest on the Diffused Congruence podcast. His piece "The Playground" was selected for Issue II of Tasbih, a Muslim literary magazine.
Much of Yousuf's writing lives in the short form: flash fiction and micro memoir, supported by a daily flash-writing practice. In July 2026 he attended the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop in Gambier, Ohio.
When he isn't writing, Yousuf roasts coffee at home, takes photographs, and spends time with his family. -
Farzad Azimpour
Casual - Non-Exempt, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
BioFarzad leads Edwards Lifesciences’ strategic innovation and future therapies incubator in the Advanced Technology unit as Senior Vice President. He’s a cardiologist by background, bringing academic, start-up, and industry experience applying needs-driven innovation discipline to define and solve high-impact challenges in cardiovascular disease.
Within his role, Farzad heads the Edwards Lifesciences Innovation Fellowship Program for cardiovascular physicians and surgeons, in partnership with the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF). Academically, Farzad serves as Associate Director, Lead for Design at Stanford University’s Mussallem Center for Biodesign.
In January of 2025, Farzad was selected to serve as a member of the Board of Directors for the Edwards Lifesciences Foundation.
He previously served as Director of Health at the global design and innovation firm IDEO, and Chief Medical Officer of an American College of Cardiology Foundation and venture capital-backed health technology start-up focused on heart failure.
Farzad completed his training in medicine and cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic and the University of Minnesota / Lillehei Heart Institute respectively, served as Chief Cardiology Fellow and NIH T32 Research Fellow designing and testing advanced cardiovascular technologies, and operated as the St. Jude Medical and Dean’s Innovation Fellow at Stanford Biodesign.
He holds patents and patents pending in the fields of interventional cardiology, cardiac electrophysiology, and robotic surgery.
Farzad earned both his bachelor’s degree in biological sciences and his MD from the University of Texas at Austin, and his post-doc in Biodesign from Stanford University School of Medicine.
He is a recipient of Phi Beta Kappa distinction and the Arnold P. Gold Humanism in Medicine Award. -
Khalid Aziz
Otto N. Miller Professor in the School of Earth Sciences, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOptimization and reservoir Simulation.
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. Aziza
Fall 2026 CSP Instructor BUS 311, Continuing Studies
BioBruno Aziza is a tech executive who has spent the last 30 years helping scale small, medium and large organization scale globally.
Bruno has led teams at Microsoft and most recently at Google Cloud where he helped the company become a Top 5 enterprise software company (starting practically from 0). He has helped launch 4 startups (2 acquired), has advised and help invest in leaders like Databricks, Dataiku, UiPath, Stripe and hundreds of tech startups. He’s raised over 11 rounds for his companies and help lead multiple acquisitions, most recently Confluent for over $11B. Bruno is currently GVP at IBM and a member of the IBM Ventures Investor Committee.
He’s a builder, a customer-centric operator, investor and advisor to CEOs. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, ZDNet, and Business Insider, among others.
A dual citizen of France and the United States, his perspective is shaped by an international background and executive education at MIT, Harvard, and UC Berkeley.
At Stanford, he teaches BUS 311: AI-Driven Product Strategy — a practitioner course built around a single question: how do you turn technology into a primary driver of customer value?
His newsletter is at carcast.substack.com.
