List of Stanford University faculty and staff

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List of notable faculty and staff at Stanford University

The List of Stanford University faculty and staff includes notable current and former faculty and staff members of Stanford University, a private research university located in Stanford, California. Stanford is known for its academic strength, wealth, proximity to Silicon Valley, and ranking as one of the world's top universities.

Notable Faculty

Current Faculty

• Condoleezza Rice - Professor of Political Science and former United States Secretary of State.
• Carol Dweck - Professor of Psychology, known for her work on the mindset psychological trait.
• Paul Milgrom - Professor of Economics, awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2020.
• Jennifer A. Doudna - Professor of Chemistry, co-discoverer of the CRISPR gene-editing technology.

Former Faculty

• John McCarthy - Professor of Computer Science, known as the father of artificial intelligence.
• Milton Friedman - Professor of Economics, awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1976.
• William Shockley - Professor of Electrical Engineering, co-inventor of the transistor and Nobel laureate in Physics.
• George Dantzig - Professor of Operations Research, known for developing the simplex algorithm for linear programming.

Notable Staff

• Herbert Hoover - 31st President of the United States, served as a trustee of Stanford University.
• David Starr Jordan - First President of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913.
• John L. Hennessy - 10th President of Stanford University, serving from 2000 to 2016, and co-founder of MIPS Computer Systems.

Related Pages

• Stanford University
• List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Stanford University
• History of Stanford University
• Silicon Valley
• List of universities in the United States

See Also

• List of University of California, Berkeley faculty and staff
• List of Harvard University people
• List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty and staff