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Dr. Chris Gregg received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2012, has a Master's of Education from Harvard University (2002), and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University (1994). Prior to becoming a lecturer at Stanford, Chris was a lecturer in the computer science department at Tufts University, and prior to that he taught high school physics in Massachusetts and California for seven years. Chris was on active duty in the Navy for seven years, and remains as a Commander in the Navy Reserves in the Information Warfare / Cryptology community. Chris's research interests include computer architecture (specifically, general purpose computing on GPUs) and the pedagogy of computer science teaching and instruction.
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Karen Chen is a first-year medical student at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, with an interest in ophthalmology and computational research. Karen graduated from Stanford University in 2022 with a B.S. degree in Computer Science and minor in Human Rights. She was a 2022-2023 Fulbright Research Scholar at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. At Yonsei, she worked to develop a novel hydrogel for stem cell delivery to the wounded cornea, targeted for treating corneal blindness in developing nations and low-resource settings. In her free time, she loves going to cafes, testing new recipes, learning languages, and attending yoga and meditation sessions!
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Dr. Azalia Mirhoseini is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. Her research interest is in developing capable, reliable, and efficient AI systems for solving high-impact, real-world problems. Her work includes generalized learning-based methods for decision-making problems in systems and chip design, self-improving AI models through interactions with the world, and scalable deep learning optimization. She also spends time at Google DeepMind and prior to Stanford, she spent several years in industry AI labs, including Anthropic and Google Brain. At Anthropic, Azalia worked on advancing the capabilities and reliability of large language models. At Google Brain, she co-founded/led the ML for Systems team, with a focus on automating and optimizing computer systems and chip design. Azalia received my BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology and her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University. Her work has been recognized through the MIT Technology Review’s 35 Under 35 Award, the Best ECE Thesis Award at Rice University, publications in flagship venues such as Nature, and coverage by various media outlets, including MIT Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, The Verge, The Times, ZDNet, VentureBeat, and WIRED.
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Dr. Monika Kress was Professor of Physics and Astronomy at San José State University for 19 years - including 5 as Department Chair - before joining the advising team at Stanford, . Upon her retirement from SJSU, she was granted the status of Professor Emerita. A first-gen college student herself, she devoted most of her teaching career to STEM student success in the introductory physics sequence for science and engineering majors.
Monika earned her BS and PhD in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She went on to conduct postdoctoral research in astrobiology at NASA Ames Research Center and the University of Washington, where her research involved computational modeling of the formation of organic material in interstellar space and its delivery to habitable planets. She was awarded the Antarctica Service Medal for her role in the Antarctic Search for Meteorites, which involved two months of fieldwork at 85 degrees South latitude in the glacial headwaters of the Transantarctic Mountains. |
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Dr. Carl Wieman holds a joint appointment as Professor of Physics and of the Graduate School of Education. He has done extensive experimental research in atomic and optical physics. His current intellectual focus is now on undergraduate physics and science education. He has pioneered the use of experimental techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of various teaching strategies for physics and other sciences, and served as Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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Dr. Stephen Luby studied philosophy and earned a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from Creighton University. He earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas and completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Rochester-Strong Memorial Hospital. He studied epidemiology and preventive medicine at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Luby's previous positions include directing the Centre for Communicable Diseases at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 2004 - 2012, conducting research and teaching epidemiology at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan from 1993 - 1998, and working as an epidemiologist in the Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
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Dr. Paul Edwards is the Director of the Program on Science, Technology & Society (STS) and a William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford. He also co-directs the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative with Prof. Steve Luby.
Paul is the Professor of Information and History (Emeritus) at the University of Michigan, where he worked for almost 20 years in the School of Information, the Dept. of History, and the STS Program. He taught previously at Stanford from 1992-1998 in various capacities, mainly in the Science, Technology & Society Program that he now directs. Paul studies the history, politics, and culture of information infrastructures, especially climate knowledge systems. His books include A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010), The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (MIT Press, 1996), and Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2001, co-edited with Clark Miller). He is the academic editor of the MIT Press book series Infrastructures. From 2018-2021, Paul served as one of 234 Lead Authors for the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group I (Physical Sciences), released in August 2021. |