Faculty

A Stanford geophysicist and lawyer team up to use big data for water quality monitoring and governance.

Charbel Farhat and Michael Fischbach are among the 10 scientists and engineers selected for the Department of Defense’s “most prestigious single-investigator award.”

By helping researchers choose among thousands of available computational models of mechanical stress on the brain, AI is yielding powerful new insight on traumatic brain injury.

The grants support early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education.

An expert in the fast-emerging field of forensic genetic genealogy reveals how mathematics can help catch criminals through traces of their DNA.

A professor of computer science and of music uses principles of real-world physics to create synthetic sounds that match computer-generated graphics.

A scholar looks at how wind affects the sustainability and resiliency of buildings and cities, and how we can improve ventilation in homes and other structures.

Stanford engineers create a faster way to browse physics-based animations to allow unparalleled ease and efficiency for artists and scientists.

Stanford Graduate School of Business professor and HAI Associate Director Susan Athey will serve as chief economist of the antitrust division at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Eric Dunham, Stanford geophysicist, details how new types of data collection and faster computers are helping our knowledge of natural phenomena and how to prepare for them.

A professor of mechanical engineering explains how computational models of Alzheimer’s spread in the brain are providing new information about the disease.

The Faculty Women’s Forum recognizes 14 faculty members and one staffer for their outstanding work supporting women at Stanford through role modeling and allyship.

Stanford University study suggests the weight of snow and ice atop the Sierra Nevada affects a California volcano’s carbon dioxide emissions

The Director of ICME shares his unconventional journey

An expert in the spread of misinformation talks about how we might at last conquer falsehood and the surprising new direction his work is taking him

A team of researchers argues that AI enables a form of congestion pricing that could make everyone at every income level better off.

Faster supercomputers and better modeling are being paired with optimized wind tunnels and flight testing to design new-age commercial airplanes.