CARS Directors
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Sven A. Beiker, PhDExecutive Director, Center for Automotive Research at Stanford Since 2008 Dr. Beiker has been overseeing the strategic planning, resources management, and project incubation for the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS). Besides managing the industry relationships, he holds teaching positions at Stanford's School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Business. He was instrumental in launching research programs at Stanford University in "Legal Aspects of Autonomous Driving" and "Wireless Power Transfer to a Moving Vehicle" as well as "The Revs Program at Stanford" and the "Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab". Before coming to Stanford, Dr. Beiker worked at the BMW Group for more than 13 year where his responsibilities included technology scouting, innovation management, systems design, and series development. He holds several patents in chassis and powertrain technologies. |
J. Christian Gerdes, Associate ProfessorDirector, Center for Automotive Research at Stanford and Dynamic Design Lab Professor Gerdes' research centers on the application of dynamic modeling to problems in nonlinear control, estimation and diagnostics. Specific areas of interest include the development of driver assistance systems for lane keeping and collision avoidance, modeling and control of novel combustion processes for Internal Combustion engines and diagnostics for automotive drive-by-wire systems. Prior to joining Stanford, Professor Gerdes was the project leader for vehicle dynamics at the Vehicle Systems Technology Center of Daimler-Benz Research and Technology North America. His work at Daimler focused on safety analysis and simulation-based design of heavy trucks for the Freightliner Corporation. |
Clifford Nass, Thomas M. Storke Professor at Stanford UniversityDirector, Revs Program at Stanford and CHIMe Lab Professor Nass founded and directs the Communication between Humans and Interactive Media (CHIMe) Lab and is the Director of the Revs Program at Stanford. The specific domains CHIMe focuses on are: Automobile Interfaces, Mobile Interfaces, Human-Robot Interaction, Cognitive and Social Effects of Multitasking, Adaptive and Personalized Systems, Voice Interfaces. His research focuses on (laboratory and field) experimental studies of social-psychological aspects of human-interactive media interaction. Specifically, Nass discovered that people use the same rules and heuristics when interacting with technology as they do when interacting with other people. This approach is called the "Computers are Social Actors" (CASA) paradigm or "The Media Equation" (media equals real life). |
Collaborating Faculty, Researchers, Staff
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Thomas M. Baer, PhDExecutive Director, Stanford Photonics Research Center |
Banny Banerjee, Associate Professor (Teaching)Design Program, d.school |
Sven A. Beiker, PhDExecutive Director, Center for Automotive Research at Stanford |
Robert A. Burgelman, Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of ManagementExecutive Director of the Stanford Executive Program |
M. Ryan Calo, JDDirector, Consumer Privacy and Legal Aspects of Autonomous Driving Projects |
Fu-Kuo Chang, ProfessorDirector, Structures and Composites Laboratory |
Donald C. Cox, ProfessorDirector, Wireless Communications Research Group |
Mark R. Cutkosky, ProfessorCo-Director, Center for Design Research |
Christopher F. Edwards, ProfessorDirector, Advanced Energy Systems Laboratory |
Per K. Enge, Kleiner-Perkins, Mayfield, Sequoia Capital Professor of EngineeringDirector, Stanford Center for Position Navigation and Time |
Shanhui Fan, Associate ProfessorSchool of Engineering, Electrical Engineering
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J. Christian Gerdes, Associate ProfessorDirector, Center for Automotive Research at Stanford and Dynamic Design Lab |
Kenneth E. Goodson, ProfessorDirector, Microscale Heat Transfer Laboratory and Vice Chair of Mechanical Engineering |
Andrea J. Goldsmith, ProfessorFaculty Head, Wireless Systems Lab |
Sachin Katti, Assistant ProfessorFaculty Head, Stanford Networked Systems Group |
Guido Koch, PhDPostdoctoral Research Fellow at the Dynamic Design Lab |
Monica Lam, ProfessorDirector, MobiSocial Computing Laboratory |
Tom Langenstein, PhDExecutive Director, Stanford Center for Position Navigation and Time |
Larry Leifer, ProfessorDirector, Center for Design Research and Industry Affiliate Program for Teaching Design Thinking |
Michael D. Lepech, Assistant ProfessorSchool of Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Jesse S. Levinson, PhDPost Doctoral Scholar |
Clifford Nass, Thomas M. Storke Professor at Stanford UniversityDirector, Revs Program at Stanford and CHIMe Lab |
Balaji S. Prabhakar, Associate ProfessorSchool of Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Vaughan Pratt, Professor EmeritusSchool of Engineering, Computer Science
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Richard E. Sassoon, PhDManaging Director, Global Energy and Climate Project (GCEP) |
Michael Shanks, Omar and Althea Dwyer Hoskins Professor of Classical ArchaeologyRevs Program at Stanford, d.school |
F. Daniel Siciliano, Professor of the PracticeFaculty Director, Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance |
Bryant Walker Smith, J.D., LL.M.Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School (CIS) |
Frances N. Sprei, PhDVisiting Scholar, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center |
Martin Steinert, Assistant Professor (Acting)Deputy Director, Center for Design Research |
James L. Sweeney, ProfessorDirector, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center |
George Toye, PhDAssociate Director, Center for Design Research |
Fred Turner, Associate ProfessorDirector, Program in Science Technology and Society |
Xiaofang Yu, PhDPostdoctoral Research Fellow |