Stanford MS&E: Stories & Voices Podcast
1) MS&E Faculty: Pamela Hinds
Challenge and Impact. Professor Hinds wanted to be asked tough questions, and that led her to find a home in academia after working in industry. She shares stories from her journey to Stanford, inclu...Show More
2) MS&E Graduates: Yeganeh Ali Mohammadi (PhD)
Exploring and Foreshadowing. 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 epid...Show More
3) MS&E Graduates: Shreyas Lakhtakia (MS)
Curiosity and Conversation. Shreyas shares how his intellectual curiosity, love for getting to know people, and multicultural background led him to not just explore interdisciplinary academic work at...Show More
4) MS&E Graduates: Nathan Lam (BS, MS)
Friendship and Involvement. Nathan talks about how his involvement in student organizations—especially since COVID-19 meant that it was his sophomore year before he arrived on campus—has been a key e...Show More
5) MS&E Graduates: Josh Grossman (PhD)
Inspiring and Teaching. Josh describes how his interest in criminal justice, data science, and statistics brought him to MS&E, where he's been able to tap into his teenage years’ tutoring background ...Show More
6) MS&E Graduates: Daniela Rendon (MS)
Networking and Empowerment. Daniela discusses the extensive benefits to her sense of empowerment, initiative, and productivity that came from a change in perspective around career-related networking ...Show More
7) MS&E Graduates: Belle Battistoni (BS)
Confidence and Challenge. Belle (2024 PAC-12 student athlete of the year for women's rowing) discusses how multiple aspects of her rowing career, and embracing challenges and difficult situations, en...Show More
8) MS&E Graduates: Brian Reed (PhD)
Quantifying and Understanding. Brian discusses the value of multi-disciplinary work and how he has combined economics, computer science, and the natural sciences with MS&E to quantify the threats of e...Show More
9) MS&E Graduates: Isabelle Rao (PhD)
Impact and Meaning. 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 a...Show More
10) MS&E Graduates: Shreya Mantha (BS)
Values and Principles. Shreya talks about how her exposure as a teen to the challenges faced by trafficking victims led her to co-found the Foundation for Girls with her sister, and how her values and...Show More