Alumni Stories & Voices
After graduating from Stanford, MS&E alums have entered career fields ranging from analytics, operations and supply chain to engineering and technology. Learn more about our grads below.
Looking for more stories & voices? Many MS&E alums have been subjects of oral history interviews, recorded by the Stanford Historical Society and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Explore MS&E oral histories
Aldís Elfarsdóttir
My research is animated by the idea of “walking the talk.” When it comes to companies and climate change, it’s really important to me that the things they’re saying, like reducing carbon emissions, are actually happening.
Kit Rodgers
Kit Rodgers explains how his time in the Mayfield Fellows Program—organized by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) in MS&E—fostered his passion for entrepreneurship.
MS&E Sweethearts
Five couples share their stories of finding love during their studies in MS&E and its legacy departments.
Nick Thach
Six alums, including MS&E alum Nick Thach '25, tell Stanford Magazine why they took leaves of absence, or "stopped out," and what they gained in return.
Jacob Choi
"There are moments at Stanford that you have faith, if only for a split second, that you might be capable of greatness in your career instead of the mundane."
Laura Taylor-Kale
A successful career in foreign policy and economic diplomacy and a desire to study organizational behavior brought Laura Taylor-Kale (pronounced KAH-Lay) to MS&E.
Claire Yang
“The things that have enabled me to be successful in my career are having a statistics and math background, and also having data intuition—basically a sense of how to approach a problem."
Alexander Ioannidis
"I’ve always been interested in human health as an engineering problem. My focus now is working on algorithms and models that use a person’s genome to predict their disease risk and the individual treatments doctors should consider in their health care."
Le Roy Davis
"I chose MS&E primarily because it allowed me to marry my passion for finance, economics, decision analysis, statistics, and optimization within one program. I found that the program provides an analytical framework that allows you to make strong, well informed decisions even when perfect information isn't available."
Julie Choi
"What has helped me become successful in my career is the ability to deeply connect with the people that I work with. I view the person across the table is the most important person in my career at that moment. Success is about all of us working together to achieve something more significant than we could individually."
Tyreke White
"I have always been good at collaborating with others, which is another thing that I developed during graduate school. For instance, let's say you've come into a meeting—being able to put everything aside to hear and understand what everyone in the room is saying, and taking all those pieces and bringing them together in the process of making a decision, are important skills to possess."
David Medina
"One thing that set me apart in life was learning how to interact with people who could be my mentors and essentially learning how to reach out and grab the mentorship and resources I needed to succeed."
Garry Choy
"Being an MS&E alum means that I'm practicing what I've learned in the intersection of multiple disciplines, such as medicine, engineering, and business. When I look back, MS&E ties a lot of my previous educational and training experiences and career opportunities together."
Alexis Weill
"Being an MS&E alum provides an individual the ability to think with a multidisciplinary perspective, which helps in adapting to many situations and learning new skills quickly over time."
Thomas Igeme
"For me, being an MS&E alum means taking old concepts and trying to look for new places to apply them, or to search for old problems to apply new frameworks to."
Joy Sim
"When you say MS&E alum, I think of it with pride. It means that I have gained a tremendous amount of knowledge from being part of the MS&E program here at Stanford. And now that I’m an alum, I should try to give back in some way."
Jack Mulder
This video spotlight showcases Jack Mulder, who shares his experience in MS&E, staying connected, and his advice for students.
Peter Haas
Peter Haas has led a storied career that is deeply intertwined with Stanford, both as a former student and as Adjunct Professor in MS&E.
Thomas Palomares
Thomas is an AI engineer with a fervid desire to make agriculture sustainable. He co-founded Farmwise.io, a company that is building autonomous products for farming to automate farming tasks and avoid the use of pesticides on farms.
Joyce Dickerson
"#IAmAnEngineer and I believe engineering is all about innovation. It’s ‘what if’ anything."
Billy Hwan
"#IAmAnEngineer. Studying engineering taught me to be structured in my thought, to be disciplined, and to look for alternative solutions to existing problems."
Laura Marino
"#IAmAnEngineer, and I believe engineering gives you the foundation to pursue your passion and add value to the world on any path you choose."
Clarissa Wong
"#IAmAnEngineer. To me, engineering is about translating great ideas and designs into real deliverable physical goods that can improve people’s lives."
Daniel Lopez
"#IAmAnEngineer, and I want to be fearless in being the best person that I can be, and providing the best quality information to people that enable us to make better decisions."
Tony Martinez
“#IAmAnEngineer who believes that the engineers who remember the people they are designing for, and the people on their team, develop better products.”