Stanford MS&E: Stories & Voices

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This podcast tells the stories of the people who make MS&E, and celebrates their journeys and accomplishments. We hope you enjoy listening!

  1. Mike van Ness: Migration and Malleability

    10/07/2025

    Mike van Ness: Migration and Malleability

    Mike shares his decision making process after learning that his existing PhD advisor was a new hire at Stanford, and discusses the applied research which helps provide the 'why' in health outcome predictions. (Spoiler alert: It was also one of the deciding factors for his cross-country move). This episode is part of our series, MS&E graduating student profiles, that shares stories of our students as they prepare to launch their post-MS&E careers. Note: The auto-generated transcript has been disabled for this episode. To view a version with a verified transcript, you can find this episode on our YouTube channel @msande.stanford

    24 min
  2. Zahra Hejrati: Education and Entrepreneurship

    10/07/2025

    Zahra Hejrati: Education and Entrepreneurship

    Zahra recounts her unexpected decision to pursue a PhD and shares the surprising results of her research, which blended her passion for education, excitement for AI, and interest in entrepreneurship to reveal results that could have a significant impact for the refugee community. This episode is part of our series, MS&E graduating student profiles, that shares stories of our students as they prepare to launch their post-MS&E careers. Note: The auto-generated transcript has been disabled for this episode. To view a version with a verified transcript, you can find this episode on our YouTube channel @msande.stanford

    24 min
  3. Mark Khalil: Exploration and Epiphanies

    10/07/2025

    Mark Khalil: Exploration and Epiphanies

    Mark describes how a 7,500 mile bike ride exploring the full length of South America enhanced his understanding of MS&E concepts and helped him burn in and rack up epiphanies about the important things in a life already rich in international work and experiences. Mark's cycling blog: nothingbutmotion.com This episode is part of our series, MS&E graduating student profiles, that shares stories of our students as they prepare to launch their post-MS&E careers. Note: The auto-generated transcript has been disabled for this episode. To view a version with a verified transcript, you can find this episode on our YouTube channel @msande.stanford

    25 min
  4. Poorva Bhalerao: Dabbling and Discovery

    10/07/2025

    Poorva Bhalerao: Dabbling and Discovery

    Poorva discusses how a lifetime spent dabbling in different areas of interest and a desire to not get comfortable being too comfortable led her to seek independence in a new country and position herself to pivot to a career spent discovering the best ways to solve problems. This episode is part of our series, MS&E graduating student profiles, that shares stories of our students as they prepare to launch their post-MS&E careers. Note: The auto-generated transcript has been disabled for this episode. To view a version with a verified transcript, you can find this episode on our YouTube channel @msande.stanford

    23 min
  5. Lauryn Franzese: Agriculture and Applicability

    10/07/2025

    Lauryn Franzese: Agriculture and Applicability

    Lauryn discusses swapping her rural farm town for The Farm, and shares how she found a place for her passion for agriculture in the applicability of the MS&E skills and tools that she was able to put into practice alongside her first-place award winning team for Senior Project. This episode is part of our series, MS&E graduating student profiles, that shares stories of our students as they prepare to launch their post-MS&E careers. Note: The auto-generated transcript has been disabled for this episode. To view a version with a verified transcript, you can find this episode on our YouTube channel @msande.stanford

    24 min
  6. Ayotunde Adeyinka: Agency and Autonomy

    10/07/2025

    Ayotunde Adeyinka: Agency and Autonomy

    Ayotunde examines how his international family perspectives and insatiable intellectual curiosity led to his core values of autonomy and agency, how he took full advantage of the liberal arts breadth of the Stanford curriculum in his quest to find his academic home, and how and why he'll be pursuing 'finance for good' as he starts his career. This episode is part of our series, MS&E graduating student profiles, that shares stories of our students as they prepare to launch their post-MS&E careers. Note: The auto-generated transcript has been disabled for this episode. To view a version with a verified transcript, you can find this episode on our YouTube channel @msande.stanford

    22 min
  7. MS&E Faculty: Pamela Hinds

    09/22/2024

    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, including how her research in management informs her leadership as the Fortinet Founders Chair of MS&E and how the department has increasingly emphasized social impact as it has grown and evolved.

    20 min
  8. MS&E Graduates: Yeganeh Ali Mohammadi (PhD)

    07/11/2024

    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 epidemic infection spread a full year before the COVID-19 outbreak, as well as how her work helped schools in Los Angeles return to in-person teaching, and her future plans for continued research for societal impact. Note: Transcriptions are generated automatically and may not be reliable. For a version with verified captions, find us on YouTube (Stanford Management Science and Engineering).

    22 min
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This podcast tells the stories of the people who make MS&E, and celebrates their journeys and accomplishments. We hope you enjoy listening!

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  • Creator
    Stanford Management Science and Engineering
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    48
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Stanford Management Science and Engineering
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    Stanford MS&E: Stories & Voices