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Leonard Susskind
Felix Bloch Professor of Physics
BioLeonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch professor of Theoretical physics at Stanford University. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate member of the faculty of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a distinguished professor of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study.
Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory, having, with Yoichiro Nambu and Holger Bech Nielsen, independently introduced the idea that particles could in fact be states of excitation of a relativistic string. He was the first to introduce the idea of the string theory landscape in 2003. -
Rachel Sina Sussman
Adjunct Clinical Instructor, Educational Programs and Services (EPS)
BioDr. Rachel Sussman grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania and Chicago, and completed college at Yale, a master's degree in psychology at Harvard, and her medical degree at Stanford. She worked and studied for several years in Belgium and China. As a former middle and high school science teacher, she has a strong interest in education and the importance of good communication with patients. She has particular interests in women's health, pediatrics, lactation, and nutrition for the whole family. Her interest in psychology also guided her towards a fellowship at Stanford and expertise in addiction and chemical dependency. Dr. Sussman enjoys biking everywhere she can with her three kids, going to the farmer's market on the weekends, reading, and yoga.
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Sarah Sussman
Assistant University Librarian for Collections and Public Services - Humanit, University Librarian's Office
Current Role at StanfordI am the Assistant University Librarian for Collections and Public Services in the Humanities, Area Studies, and Social Sciences, responsible for strategic management of the following units of Stanford University Libraries: Humanities and Area Studies Resource Group, Social Science Resource Group, as well as the following branch libraries: Bowes Art and Architecture Library, Braun Music Library and ARS, Cubberley Education Library, and the East Asian Library. I also develop and maintain Stanford University Libraries’ collections of current, rare, and antiquarian materials in all formats in French and about France and its empire
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Juwono L. Sutedjo, MD, MBA
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
BioDr. Sutedjo is a board-certified, fellowship-trained cardiologist. She is a faculty in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Sutedjo holds seven board certifications. She specializes in complex cardiovascular conditions, emphasizing multimodality cardiovascular imaging and disease prevention. She integrates leading-edge diagnostics with evidence-based strategies to provide comprehensive, patient-centered care. She has led multidisciplinary clinics, telehealth programs, and ambulatory operations to enhance accessibility and efficiency.
Dr. Sutedjo has a visionary approach to the future of cardiovascular medicine, particularly in the context of the rapidly evolving digital era. With a clear understanding of the need for innovative business models in healthcare, she pursued an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to complement her medical expertise. As a physician executive and clinical researcher, she has deep expertise in clinical operations, health care delivery, and finance. Her diverse background spans private practice, integrated healthcare systems, and managed care settings, providing her with a comprehensive perspective on the healthcare landscape. Driven by a commitment to enhancing patient outcomes, Dr. Sutedjo is deeply invested in leveraging digital health innovations and artificial intelligence to advance the field of cardiovascular care.
Dr. Sutedjo’s research explores AI, machine learning, and digital health applications in cardiovascular risk prediction, diagnosis, and treatment. She aims to improve efficiency, reduce disparities, and enhance precision in clinical decision-making.
Dr. Sutedjo has published her work in Circulation, The American Journal of Medicine, and 21st Century Cardiology. She has also presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions and other national and international conferences, engaging with industry leaders and private sector stakeholders on the role of AI in health care. She has co-founded several health technology startups and served as a consultant for leading technology companies and private sector organizations. Additionally, she played a key role in the IPO of a tech startup on the Toronto Stock Exchange. -
Katherine Sutherland, PA-C
Temporary Employee, Medicine - Med/Blood and Marrow Transplantation
BioKatherine completed her PA degree at Stanford University and worked as a PA in Cutaneous Oncology for 2 years prior to transitioning to Stanford BMT in 2012. Katherine transitioned to part time work in January 2016 and now works on the inpatient service on an as needed basis.
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Robert Sutton
Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Emeritus
BioRobert I. Sutton is an organizational psychologist and best-selling author. He studies leadership, innovation, organizational change, and workplace dynamics. Sutton has published over 200 articles, chapters, and case studies. His focus recently is scaling and leading at scale—how to grow organizations, spread good things (and remove bad things) in teams and organizations, and enhance performance, innovation, and well-being in big organizations.
Sutton received his PhD in Organizational Psychology from The University of Michigan and has served on the Stanford faculty since 1983. He served as Professor of Management Science & Engineering until 2023 and is now Professor Emeritus at Stanford. Sutton is co-founder and former co-director of the Center for Work, Technology and Organization, co-founder of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and co-founder of the “Stanford d.school.” Sutton was a resident Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences during multiple years. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly publications and as an editor for Administrative Science Quarterly and Research in Organizational Behavior.
Sutton has served as an advisor to McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, and Microsoft, a Fellow at IDEO, a board member of the Institute for the Future, a Senior Scientist at Gallup, and on faculty at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He is currently an advisor to Teamraderie and Asana’s Work Innovation Lab. Sutton is the academic co-director of Stanford executive education programs including Customer Focused Innovation and Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He has given more than 200 keynote speeches in more than 20 countries.
Sutton’s academic honors include the award for the best paper published in the Academy of Management Journal, induction into the Academy of Management Journals Hall of Fame, the Eugene L. Grant Award for Excellence in Teaching, the McGraw-Hill Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award, and the award for the best article published in the Academy of Management Review. The London Business School selected Sutton for the 2014 Sumantra Ghoshal Award “for rigour and relevance in the study of management.” The American Management Association selected Sutton as one of the top 30 leaders who most influenced business in 2014 (ranking him 10th).
Sutton’s eight books and two edited volumes include (with Jeffrey Pfeffer) The Knowing-Doing Gap, selected by Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten as one of the best 100 business books of all time, and Weird Ideas That Work, selected by the Harvard Business Review as one of the best ten business books of the year. Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense was selected by Toronto’s Globe and Mail as the top management book of 2006 and by Strategy+Business as one of the best 10 books in the last decade.
The No Asshole Rule—a New York Times (NYT), Wall Street Journal (WSJ), and Businessweek bestseller—was translated into over 20 languages and sold over 900,000 copies. Good Boss, Bad Boss is a NYT and WSJ bestseller. Scaling-Up Excellence (with Huggy Rao) is a WSJ bestseller that was selected as one of the best business books of the year by Amazon, Financial Times, Inc., and others. The Asshole Survival Guide was selected as book of the month by the Financial Times.
Sutton’s latest book (with Rao), The Friction Project, unpacks insights from their seven-year learning adventure using academic research, case studies, classes and workshops, and ongoing dialog with scholars, executives, and innovators to learn how smart organizations make the right things easier and the wrong things harder.
Sutton’s research and opinions have appeared in the press, including NYT, The Times (of London), Financial Times, Fortune, WSJ, Wired, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, and more. Sutton has been a guest on numerous radio and television shows and podcasts. Learn more at bobsutton.net -
Troy Sutton
Senior Contracts Partner & Liaison, Business Affairs
Current Role at StanfordConsultant/subject matter expert to senior leadership, faculty, and staff on procurement contract policy and process at Stanford. Leading the Vendor Contracts Enablement and Governance group (VCEG) to enhance operational effectiveness and mitigate risk through a continuous improvement cycle of identifying opportunities, developing strategies, and implementing updated policies, processes, and tools for a more efficient, and compliant contracting environment.
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Ken Suzuki
Postdoctoral Scholar, General Surgery
BioKen Suzuki is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University's Department of Surgery. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz in June 2024. Before UC Santa Cruz, he earned his MA in Economics from Hitotsubashi University in 2017 and his BA in Economics from Yokohama National University in 2015. His research interests include health economics, applied microeconomics, econometrics, and statistical causal inference. His research utilizes large administrative datasets from the Veterans Health Administration (VA) to examine how health policies affect patient healthcare utilization and health outcomes.
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Yuri Suzuki
Stanley G. Wojcicki Professor, Professor of Applied Physics, and by courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHer interests are focused on novel ground states and functional properties in condensed matter systems synthesized via atomically precise thin film deposition techniques with a recent emphasis has been on highly correlated electronic systems:
• Emergent interfacial electronic & magnetic phenomena through complex oxide heteroepitaxy
• Low dimensional electron gas systems
• Spin current generation, propagation and control in complex oxide-based ferromagnets
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David Svec, MD, MBA
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHigh Value Care: Leading quality improvement projects / research initiatives
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Katrin J Svensson
Associate Professor of Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMolecular metabolism
Protein biochemistry
Cell biology and function
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Lisa Marie Swan
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
BioLisa Swan teaches writing courses. She has served as the PWR 1 Coordinator supporting the curricular, pedagogical, and professional development of the first year writing requirement and developed a summer bridge writing course and a support workshop for students who are first generation college students, from low-income backgrounds, or attended underresourced schools. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in English Education from the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously, she taught at the University of Maryland and Northern Virginia Community College. At Stanford, her writing class themes have focused on educational equity, comics and graphic novels, the future of cities, and student voice. Her research interests include writing studies, composition and reading pedagogies, curriculum design, and qualitative research methods.
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Nick Swan
Director of Student Academic Experience, H&S Dean's Office
Current Role at StanfordStudent Services Officer, Physics Department.
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James Swartz
James H. Clark Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Bioengineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsProgram Overview
The world we enjoy, including the oxygen we breathe, has been beneficially created by biological systems. Consequently, we believe that innovative biotechnologies can also serve to help correct a natural world that non-natural technologies have pushed out of balance. We must work together to provide a sustainable world system capable of equitably improving the lives of over 10 billion people.
Toward that objective, our program focuses on human health as well as planet health. To address particularly difficult challenges, we seek to synergistically combine: 1) the design and evolution of complex protein-based nanoparticles and enzymatic systems with 2) innovative, uniquely capable cell-free production technologies.
To advance human health we focus on: a) achieving the 120 year-old dream of producing “magic bullets”; smart nanoparticles that deliver therapeutics or genetic therapies only to specific cells in our bodies; b) precisely designing and efficiently producing vaccines that mimic viruses to stimulate safe and protective immune responses; and c) providing a rapid point-of-care liquid biopsy that will count and harvest circulating tumor cells.
To address planet health we are pursuing biotechnologies to: a) inexpensively use atmospheric CO2 to produce commodity biochemicals as the basis for a new carbon negative chemical industry, and b) mitigate the intermittency challenges of photovoltaic and wind produced electricity by producing hydrogen either from biomass sugars or directly from sunlight.
More than 25 years ago, Professor Swartz began his pioneering work to develop cell-free biotechnologies. The new ability to precisely focus biological systems toward efficiently addressing new, “non-natural” objectives has proven tremendously useful as we seek to address the crucial and very difficult challenges listed above. Another critical feature of the program is the courage (or naivete) to approach important objectives that require the development and integration of several necessary-but- not-sufficient technology advances. -
Andrew Sweatt
Assistant Professor of Medicine (PACCM)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAiming to advance understanding and treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), Dr. Sweatt's research leverages high-throughput molecular profiling, deep clinical phenotypic data, and data science (machine learning and network-based analysis) to identify novel sub-phenotypes and therapeutically-relevant biomarkers in PAH.
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James Sweeney
Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDeterminants of energy efficiency opportunities, barriers, and policy options. Emphasis on behavioral issues, including personal, corporate, or organizational. Behavior may be motivated by economic incentives, social, or cultural factors, or more generally, by a combination of these factors. Systems analysis questions of energy use.
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Laura Swenson
Programming & Operations Manager, David Rumsey Map Center
BioLaura Swenson received her BS in Product Design from Stanford University and worked in the field of human-centered design prior to her role at the David Rumsey Map Center. At the Map Center, she oversees operations and technology in service of making the collections more accessible to students, researchers and the public.
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Susan M. Swetter, MD
Mosbacher Professor of Dermatology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests1) Early detection of melanoma through precision screening, novel imaging technologies (including AI), and professional/public education to raise awareness. 2) Therapeutic prevention of melanoma in high-risk groups. 3) Epidemiologic and sociodemographic melanoma risk factor identification. 4) Co-Founder/Director of the national Melanoma Prevention Working Group, an interdisciplinary collaboration dedicated to melanoma control; Founding Director of the Wipe Out Melanoma - California initiative.
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Joel Swisher
Adjunct Professor, Atmosphere and Energy Operations
BioJoel N. Swisher, PhD, PE, is Consulting Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, where he teaches graduate-level courses on greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation (covering technical and business strategies to manage GHG risks) and electric utility planning methods (covering supply and demand-side resources, resource integration and expansion planning). His current research at Stanford addresses the integration of plug-in vehicles with the power grid and the barriers and synergies related to metering, tariffs, load management, customer incentives, and charging infrastructure.
Dr. Swisher is also an independent consultant with over 30 years experience in research and consulting on many aspects of clean energy technology. He is an expert in energy efficiency technology and policy, carbon offsets and climate change mitigation, and electric utility resource planning and economics. He has consulted with numerous utilities, manufacturers and technology companies on resource planning, energy efficiency, vehicle electrification and clean energy deployment strategies. He has also helped consumer-oriented firms design strategies to expand simple cost-saving energy investment programs into brand-building corporate sustainability campaigns.
Dr. Swisher is a thought leader in several areas of clean energy technology and business strategy. As Director of Technical Services and CTO for Camco International, Dr. Swisher helped develop carbon offset projects in reforestation, agriculture, renewable energy and building energy efficiency, and he has authored emission inventories, baseline studies and monitoring and verification plans for multilateral banks and private offset buyers. Starting in 1989, Dr. Swisher performed seminal research on carbon offset baselines and technical and economic analysis of carbon offsets in the energy and land-use sectors.
Dr. Swisher was managing director of research and consulting at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), where he led RMI’s consulting team in work for numerous high-profile clients, including electric utilities and producers of goods ranging from semiconductor chips to potato chips. At RMI, he created the concept of the Smart Garage, which explores the energy system synergies in which vehicle electrification helps enable zero-emission vehicles and a cleaner power grid. He led an RMI team that convened an industrial consortium (including Alcoa, Johnson Controls, Google, etc.) to develop a new, lightweight, plug-in hybrid vehicle platform for Class 2 truck fleet applications. Collaborating with the design firm IDEO to conduct interdisciplinary design workshops, the RMI team initiated a working design to attract funding and move toward production, which proceeded as a spin-off company, Bright Automotive in Indiana.
Dr. Swisher holds a Ph.D. in Energy and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. He is a registered Professional Engineer and speaks five languages. He is author of over 100 professional publications including The New Business Climate: A Guide to Lower Carbon Emissions and Better Business Performance and a bilingual (English and Portuguese) textbook on energy efficiency program design and evaluation and integrated energy resource planning. -
Alexandra Switzer
Basic Life Research Scientist, Microbiology and Immunology
Current Role at StanfordMicrobiologist, veterinarian and data analyst in the Relman lab studying the indigenous gut microbiota of a wide range of marine and terrestrial mammals. Current research interests include characterizing microbiome assembly in neonatal mammals, host-microbiome co-evolution and patterns of microbiome diversity associated with wildlife population health.
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Paul Switzer
Professor of Statistics and of Environmental Earth System Science, Emeritus
BioDr. Switzer's research interests are in the development of statistical tools for the environmental sciences. Recent research has focused on the interpretation of environmental monitoring data, design of monitoring networks, detection of time trends in environmental and climatic paramenters, modeling of human exposure to pollutants, statistical evaluation of numerical climate models and error estimation for spatial mapping.
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Julie K. Sydor
HIT Fund Innovation Strategy Manager, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
Current Role at StanfordHIT Fund Innovation Strategy Manager
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Ali Bin Syed
Clinical Associate Professor, Radiology - Pediatric Radiology
BioDr. Syed is a member of the divisions of Pediatric Radiology and Body MRI and serves as the Medical Director of Pediatric MRI at Stanford. Dr. Syed has received subspecialty training in adult body imaging, pediatric body imaging, congenital cardiac imaging, and musculoskeletal imaging. His clinical interests include MR imaging of pediatric and adult hepatobiliary disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, gynecologic pathology, and congenital heart disease. He is also an active researcher and works with engineers and scientists to translate technical innovations in MRI into improved patient care. His recent work focuses on translation of machine learning techniques for rapid, robust MRI in children and adults.
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Karl G. Sylvester
Professor of Surgery (Pediatric Surgery)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsScholarly interests include investigation of molecular markers of human disease that provide diagnostic function, serve as targets for possible therapeutic manipulation, or provide insight into mechanisms of human disease. Specific diseases of interest include common conditions of pregnancy, gut microbial ecology and Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC).
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Gregory Arthur Szalkowski
Clinical Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsWorkflow automation, radiotherapy quality assurance, machine learning
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Daniel Sze, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiology (Interventional Radiology), Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsTransarterial administration of chemotherapeutics, radioactive microspheres, and biologics for the treatment of unresectable tumors; management of portal hypertension and complications of cirrhosis (TIPS); treatment of complications of organ transplantation; Venous and pulmonary arterial thrombolysis and reconstruction; Stent and Stent-graft treatment of peripheral vascular diseases, aneurysms, aortic dissections
