People

Chuck Eesley is an Associate Professor and W.M. Keck Foundation Faculty Scholar in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. As part of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, his research focuses on the role of the institutional and university environment in high-growth, technology entrepreneurship. Prof. Eesley was selected in 2015 as an Inaugural Schulze Distinguished Professor. His National Science Foundation of China and Kauffman award supported research focuses on rethinking how the educational and policy environment shapes the economic and entrepreneurial impact of university alumni.

Peter W. Glynn is the Thomas Ford Professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, and also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering. His research centers on computational algorithms, mathematical approximations, statistical methodology, and optimization methods for the analysis of systems in which uncertainty is present. He has developed algorithms that are widely used across the field of Monte Carlo simulation.

Robert Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering and a Professor of Organizational Behavior (by courtesy) at Stanford. Sutton has been teaching classes on the psychology of business and management at Stanford since 1983. He is co-founder of the Center for Work, Technology and Organization, which he co-directed from 1996 to 2006. He is also co-founder of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (which everyone calls “the d school”).

Irene Lo is an Assistant Professor in MS&E at Stanford University. Her research is on designing matching markets and assignment processes to improve market outcomes, with a focus on public sector applications and socially responsible operations research. She is also interested in mechanism design for social good and graph theory.

Bao Phan is an MS&E coterm pursuing the Computation Social Science Track. She was born in Vietnam and now lives in Ann Arbor, MI. Bao recently graduated from Stanford with an undergraduate degree from MS&E in the Organizations, Technology, and Policy track, a minor in German Studies, and Honors in Education. As a proud first-generation college student, Bao researched the social-emotional outcomes of college bridge programs on fellow first-generation, low-income students for her undergraduate honors thesis. During her time at Stanford, Bao has been an active advocate of diversity and inclusion in STEM, including her current position as the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Research Assistant for the Management Science & Engineering department, and in previous roles at the Stanford Graduate Schools of Education and Business in the Language to Literacy and Equity by Design Lab, respectively.

Outside of Stanford, Bao has had experience building beloved consumer brands in the consumer services, CPG, and education spaces. Upon graduation, Bao plans to continue to work within the education-technology space to deliver cutting-edge technology to students around the world as equitably as possible.

Shawn Filer is a masters student at the Stanford Graduate School of Education in the Policy, Organization and Leadership Studies program. Shawn earned a bachelor's degree in Management Science and Engineering and has professional experience primarily in strategy, working with a small youth development non-profit in his hometown on their recruitment and program offerings, optimizing design and creating a culture of continuous improvement at Mckinsey and Company and consulting on social services and sustainability for city governments all over the world via the Bloomberg Associates. Shawn was born and raised in Ferguson, MO and is passionate about the intersection of education, technology and black equity.

As an undergrad Shawn worked at the Stanford Alumni Association, advocating on behalf his peers to the Stanford Black Alumni Association and leading other student workers as they did the same for their respective communities, served as a freshman Resident Assistant in Burbank and has been the financial manager for Blackfest and a club for black pre-professional students. As an MS&E Alumni, Shawn is excited for the chance to make his home department more inclusive and effective in its instruction of other diverse students like himself.

Brooke Tran is an MS&E coterm student studying Computational Social Science. She is particularly excited about working at the intersection of data and social change to make systems more equitable for marginalized communities. She is passionate about meaningful, mission-driven work, and has explored this through data-driven research and civic technology. Previously, she has done research through Stanford's Changing Cities Research Lab, analyzing gentrification and displacement in the Bay Area. This past summer, she was a Data Science Fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau, building data tools to modernize the agency's operations. Currently, she is working on research projects at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and at Stanford's RegLab exploring economic and environmental issues.

She believes that MS&E gives students the foundation to pursue careers that are analytically challenging, but also provides frameworks for social and organizational problems. She's looking forward to critically assessing how to make the MS&E Department a more inclusive, equitable space and working on initiatives to give students with diverse backgrounds exposure to the possibilities that an MS&E education can provide.

Ayman Babikir is a fourth year undergraduate student from Dubai, UAE studying Management Science and Engineering with a focus on Operations and Analytics. Ayman’s professional experience includes management consulting at Bain & Co., product management at a Kenyan SaaS start-up and investing at a pan-African venture capital fund. At Stanford, Ayman has served as a Community Advocate at The Markaz Resource Center, the Muslim community center at Stanford, and also spent time investigating the impacts of discriminatory economic policies on the lives of migrant workers in the Middle East as a research assistant at the Stanford King Center on Global Development. He is excited to begin working with the MS&E D&I Committee on strategizing ways in which the MS&E department can lower the barriers of entry for diverse students as they navigate their majors and the rest of their Stanford experience.

Rachel Julkowski (they/them/their) works at STVP, Stanford Engineering’s entrepreneurial leadership lab With STVP, Rachel works with faculty to tighten the learning curve for developing entrepreneurial ecosystems and aspiring innovators around the world: through collaborations with educational organizations and the distribution of free and accessible multi-media content. Previously, Rachel led creative communications campaigns for the University of Chicago and Brandeis University where they helped launch and roll out the University of Chicago’s $4.5B capital campaign and helped successfully win Chicago’s bid for the Obama Presidential Library. Rachel started their career in documentary filmmaking and as assistant editor for the Emmy-Award Winning Seasons 40 and 41 of Sesame Street.

They are passionate about increasing access to educational opportunities through skills training, knowledge sharing and community building.