Stories & Voices
Stories & Voices
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Graduates tell their MS&E stories
Six students who graduated the bachelor's, master's, and PhD program in MS&E share about their journies.
October 07, 2025
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Renyuan Xu joins MS&E as Assistant Professor
Get to know Professor Xu and how her research aims to solve large scale problems in financial systems.
October 04, 2025
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Ruizhe Jia joins MS&E as Assistant Professor
Get to know Professor Jia and the impact he hopes to make through research in financial technology.
October 04, 2025
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Meet our incoming PhD students: Autumn 2025
Get to know some of our newest PhD students as they begin their doctoral studies.
September 22, 2025
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Empathy, community, impact: Heidi Roizen on the Threshold Venture Fellows Program
Roizen emphasizes the importance of empathy, community, and ethical impact in this Q&A about STVP's Threshold Venture Fellows Program.
September 08, 2025
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Bright minds and big ideas: Meet SHP’s 2025 Summer Fellows
Meet the 2025 cohort of students, including MS&E senior Kaz Dean Melzer, spending their summer as Stanford Health Policy Undergraduate Research Fellows.
July 02, 2025
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5 questions with Ash Wallington
STVP's new executive director talks about her new role and the blend of innovation and societal ambition that happens at Stanford.
June 18, 2025
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Ashlea Wallington to join STVP as new executive director
Wallington brings a range of experience and a passion for fostering entrepreneurial ecosystems to her new role.
May 08, 2025
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Nick Bambos: A strong vision helps position MS&E as a global leader
Professor Bambos recalls his time leading MS&E through a time of technological change, and how the department is prepared for success in the future.
March 26, 2025
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James Sweeney retires after 53 years of powering a sustainable future
Professor Sweeney's influence will reverberate for decades through his research, energy policy guidance, and former students.
February 10, 2025
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Ronald Howard, a seminal figure in the field of decision analysis and its ethical application, and a mentor to Stanford students for 53 years, has died
Howard’s desire to apply basic analytic principles to human decision problems transformed and revolutionized the field from an academic pursuit to its current role in industry.
December 10, 2024
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70 years ago, Stanford Engineering pioneered a new model for graduate education for industry professionals – and it still thrives today
For decades, the Honors Cooperative Program (HCP) has empowered working engineers with the knowledge needed to create tech innovations in Silicon Valley and beyond.
November 01, 2024
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Meet our incoming PhD students: Autumn 2024
Get to know some of our newest students as they embark on their MS&E careers.
September 23, 2024
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Summer reading (and listening) list 2024
Six graduates recommend books and podcasts that have influenced their lives and academic careers.
August 13, 2024
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Six graduates share their MS&E stories
Graduates of the bachelor's, master's, and PhD program talk about their journies to MS&E and where they'll go after Stanford.
July 17, 2024
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Meet Alex Patel '24
Senior Alex Patel shares the story of his undergraduate journey with the Stanford Global Studies program.
June 18, 2024
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Meditations on a meaningful education
Incoming master's student Benjamin Zaidel ’24, grew up in Los Angeles influenced by two different cultures.
May 24, 2024
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Peter Glynn: Strategic investments in the people of MS&E have been central to its strength
The former MS&E chair recalls building strength in computational social science and other areas by capitalizing on expertise in mathematical models and behavioral sciences.
April 12, 2024
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Elisabeth Paté-Cornell: MS&E has always been about its students
The Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor reflects on leading the Management Science & Engineering department in its early years.
January 10, 2024
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Meet our incoming PhD students: Autumn 2023
We caught up with some incoming students to ask about their backgrounds and what brings them to MS&E.
September 26, 2023