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Juyoung Oh
Postdoctoral Scholar, Mechanical Engineering
BioJuyoung Oh is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University. Her research focuses on understanding and harnessing thermal runaway phenomena in rechargeable batteries to enable controllable propulsion thrust. With a strong background in the thermochemical analysis of metal-based solid energetic materials, her work aims to elucidate the fundamental mechanisms governing thermal runaway in lithium-metal batteries, with particular emphasis on interfacial chemistry and thermodynamic behavior. Through this approach, she seeks to integrate battery and thruster functionalities into a unified system, advancing next-generation aerospace–battery technologies.
Prior to joining Stanford, Dr. Oh was a Postdoctoral Associate at Rice University. She received her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University (SNU). Her academic achievements include the Best Doctoral Thesis Award (2022) and the Korean-American Women in Science and Engineering (KWiSE) Young Scientist Scholarship (2025). -
Allison Okamura
Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on developing the principles and tools needed to realize advanced robotic and human-machine systems capable of physical interaction. Application areas include surgery, simulation and training, rehabilitation, prosthetics, neuromechanics, exploration of hazardous and remote environments (e.g. space), design, and education.
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Antonello Paolino
Affiliate, Program-Iaccarino, G.
BioI am a Visiting Student Researcher at Stanford Mechanical Engineering, working on the PSAAP project under Prof. Gianluca Iaccarino's supervision.
I received my BSc (2018) and MSc (2021) in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II.
I am currently a PhD Student at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa and the University of Naples Federico II under the supervision of Dr. Daniele Pucci and Prof. Renato Tognaccini. My PhD research focuses on the modeling and control of the aerodynamic forces acting on the jet-powered humanoid robot iRonCub using both classical and machine learning approaches. -
Apoorva Reddy Parvathgari
Affiliate, Mechanical Engineering - Flow Physics and Computation
BioI am a doctoral researcher in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. My work focuses on aerodynamics, flow physics, and aeroelastic instabilities of finite wings, leveraging high-fidelity simulations and high-performance computing (HPC).
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Marco Pavone
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
BioDr. Marco Pavone is a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, where he directs the Autonomous Systems Laboratory. He is also a Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA where he leads autonomous vehicle research. Before joining Stanford, he was a Research Technologist within the Robotics Section at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. His main research interests are in the development of methodologies for the analysis, design, and control of autonomous systems, with an emphasis on self-driving cars, autonomous aerospace vehicles, and future mobility systems. He is a recipient of a number of awards, including a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Barack Obama, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, a National Science Foundation Early Career (CAREER) Award, a NASA Early Career Faculty Award, and an Early-Career Spotlight Award from the Robotics Science and Systems Foundation. He was identified by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) as one of America's 20 most highly promising investigators under the age of 40. His work has been recognized with best paper nominations or awards at a number of venues, including the European Conference on Computer Vision, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, the European Control Conference, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, the Field and Service Robotics Conference, the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, and the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
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William Paxton
Visiting Scholar, Mechanical Engineering - Design
BioWilliam A. Paxton is a Visiting Scholar in the Quantum Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, hosted by Professor Fritz B. Prinz. He concurrently serves as Senior Staff Scientist and Project Lead at Volkswagen Group of America’s Innovation and Engineering Center California in Belmont, California where he works on energy storage, electric vehicle, and sustainability topics.
Prior to Volkswagen, Paxton spent six years at Ford Motor Company; first as a Energy Storage Materials Research Engineer in Energy Storage in Dearborn, Michigan and then as Technology Scout and Project Lead for Battery and Charging at Ford’s Research and Innovation Center in Palo Alto, California.
William holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Rutgers University, is named inventor on six US patents, and his peer-reviewed work has been cited more than 1,700 times.
At Stanford, his research interest is on next-generation energy-storage devices for mobility applications.
