Student Stories & Voices
MS&E students are brought together by interdisciplinary curiosity and common research interests and goals. Learn more about our students below.
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Yeganeh Ali Mohammadi
Yeganeh explains how her love of applied math brought her to the operations research area of MS&E and how multidisciplinary exploring sparked an interest in modeling epidemic infection spread—a full year before the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Nathan Lam
Nathan talks about how his involvement in student organizations has been a key element of his time at Stanford and in MS&E, leading to enhanced leadership and entrepreneurial skills, lifelong friendships, and dream teams for group coursework.
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Daniela Rendon
Daniela discusses the extensive benefits to her sense of empowerment, initiative, and productivity that came from a change in perspective around career-related networking, as well as the importance of self-care as she juggled work and her studies.
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Alex Patel
As he looks back on his time at Stanford, Alex is most proud of the leadership roles he held in different organizations on campus, including the Club Tennis team and the Charles R. Blyth Fund, a student-run investment fund. He shares stories from his undergraduate journey in this Q&A with the Stanford Global Studies Program.
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Ky Robinson
From unknown to NCAA champion, Ky has become the face of Stanford distance running.
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Joshua "JC" Chien
JC discusses how joining the Fleet Street acapella group and becoming a practice player and manager with the women's basketball team were two of the best decisions he made at Stanford, how his initiative in reaching out to people for informational conversations helped guide him into MS&E and onto his career path as he embarks on his next steps, and how building relationships brings him joy, meaning and success.
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Jeff Hanson
Jeff discusses the realities of juggling work and study while also raising a family in the Honors Cooperative Program (HCP), putting his studies and the range of feedback sources into immediate use in his work, and how the community that he helped bring together benefited many of his peers.
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Isabelle Rao
Isabelle shares how her work examining major healthcare issues such as equitable vaccine allocation and the opioid epidemic from an operations research lens has been able to have an impact in decision making and policy development, and how she takes meaning from knowing how many lives can be saved.
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Catherine Baron (MS student)
Our 2023 graduating student podcasts feature music from Catherine Baron. Catherine loves making music because the cross-disciplinary process of creation echoes her favorite Renaissance greats. From storytelling to audio engineering, she revels in building a soundscape that invites reflection. As a composer of what some call poetic jazz fusion, she fuses musical elements from lived experiences in the East and West. We used an instrumental version of "Rosy" from her album Adrift.
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Antonia Hellman
Antonia's passion for data science in politics, as well as a desire for a broad education, led her to MS&E. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity for her to start her own business.
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2022 UDR program participants
Students in the 2021-22 MS&E Undergraduate Diversity in Research (UDR) program cohort share their stories, experiences, and plans for the future.
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Giovanni Malloy
Giovanni studied infectious disease outbreaks as an undergraduate, which positioned him to be at the forefront of COVID-19 research when the pandemic began. He also shares advice for finding work/life balance at Stanford.
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Juan Langlois
Juan was born and raised in Chile, where he acquired undergraduate and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and worked as a financial engineer at a small company. Now, he looks forward to soaking up knowledge in a larger Silicon Valley organization.
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Brody Malone
In this Stanford Athletics spolight, Brody talks about his journey to Stanford and the gymnastics program, how grit and determination shaped that journey, and the importance of family.
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Anneke Claypool
While teaching with the Peace Corps overseas, Anneke noticed healthcare problems, such as malaria, directly affecting her students’ attendance. After that experience, she decided to apply her mathematics background to the healthcare system.
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Brian Seabrooks
Brian shares his journey from being a physics major to MS&E and his passion for creating tangible impact in the world. He also shares stories about his time at Stanford and offers advice to MS&E students.
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Saron Dea
Saron originally came to Stanford determined to become a human rights lawyer, but soon realized that she could make just as big of an impact on societal issues with a degree in engineering.
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Sean Howard
Sean shares how his passion for engineering started with a childhood project car and describes how the interdisciplinary nature of MS&E is what attracted him to the program. He also describes his experience as a student member of MS&E's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee, and his plans for the future.
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Eric Volmar
Eric shares his research on mission-driven organizations and how entrepreneurs can be successful while doing good for society.
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Aron Nunez
Aron shares stories about his childhood, and how growing up on an orchard and helping his father count trees led to his fascination with math and engineering. He wanted to solve problems around efficiency and optimization, and found math allowed him to do so.
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2020 PhD cohort
A warm welcome to our 2020 PhD student cohort! Get to know some of our newest students:
Mohak Goyal, Grace Guan, Ravi Sojitra, Shengbo Wang, Fernando Rodriguez Silva Santisteban, Junting Duan, Tristan Pollner, Wajeeha Ahmad, Zhihao Jiang, Yuchen Hu, Sirui Lin, and Mohammad Roghani.
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Robert Bremner
Rob shares his research focus in Organization and Strategy, and goes in depth into his research where he studied how to improve the innovation process (particularly in the gaming industry).
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Guillermo Camarillo
Guillermo shares stories about his time at Stanford and in the MS&E program, and also provides advice for underrepresented minority students on campus, stating that they do belong and their presence in their department and classrooms are valid, in addition to their merit.
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Pablo Hernandez Sanz
Pablo shares how his fascination with engineering began at an early age, taking apart toys to see how they work, and how his teachers in high school made science and math courses exciting and fun, as opposed to just fulfilling course requirements.
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Ali Shameli
Ali helps define his research area of Operations Research and how it has extended beyond MS&E with collaboration in the CS and Economics departments at Stanford. He shares his thought process for choosing the MS&E program and describes it as being the perfect blend between theory and application.
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Travis Trammell III
Travis goes in depth into his research where he studied fake news by using quantitative methods to examine its spread on online platforms, as well as potential counters that both government and industry could use in an effort to stop the spread of disinformation.
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Alton Russell
Within the area of modeling healthcare decision and healthcare policy, Alton's research area focuses on safety in the blood supply.
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Maya Thompson and Aisha Sharif
"I just want younger engineering students to know that you can do it."
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Tyreke White
"Being able to choose between a wide array of courses from accounting to machine learning is one of the hallmarks of this program that I would have missed out on if I'd chosen another program."
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Gregory Heon
"I love the mix of mathematical theory and computer science that is all focused on real-world applications, and Stanford MS&E allowed me to apply them to real problems."
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Karly Jerman
"It felt good to do research that was going to be immediately used... and was doubly satisfying because it was already applying my training to solve a problem by using data."
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Jongbin Jung
"Helping people make challenging and important decisions is the most fulfilling goal for me. I’m also excited about making sense of complicated systems and finding insights from large amounts of data."
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Allison Pitt
"I know that my experience here is equipping me with the skills and perspective I'll need to make an impact."
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Aaron Mitchell
"In high school, I thought I would go into business. It wasn’t until I attended SSEA that I realized the breadth of engineering programs Stanford has to offer."
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