Stanford Engineering
Emergence

Our Team

A community of people who are passionate about health, equity, sustainability, and purposeful entrepreneurship

Core Team

Leads Stanford Emergence and provides strategic guidance

Affiliated Faculty & Staff

Provide ongoing, directional guidance to Stanford Emergence

  • Thomas Byers

    Entrepreneurship Professor in the School of Engineering

  • Steve Ciesinski

    Lecturer in Management, Graduate School of Business

  • Drew Endy

    Associate Professor of Bioengineering

  • Kari Hanson

    Academic Director, Stanford University

  • Karin Immergluck

    Executive Director, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)

  • Ashlyn Jaeger

    Program Manager, Ethics in Society

  • Rachel Julkowski

    Managing Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program

  • Stephen Luby

    Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute and the Freeman Spogli Institute and Professor, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health

  • Megan J. Palmer

    Adjunct Professor

  • Manu Prakash

    Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment

  • Rob Reich

    Professor of Political Science, by courtesy, of Education and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

  • John Weyant

    Professor (Research) of Management Science and Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy

  • Paul Yock, MD

    Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council

Industry Advisors

Providing experience-driven insights to Emergence members

2022-2023 Academic Year Postdoc and Student Leaders

Leads student engagement and supports course development & teaching on a quarterly basis

Former Student Leaders