Margot Gerritsen is an Associate Professor in Energy Resources
Engineering. Originally from the Netherlands, she left the country after
receiving her MSc degree from Delft University of Technology. She earned her
PhD in Computational Mathematics from Stanford in 1996. After teaching at the
University of Auckland in New Zealand for five years, she returned to Stanford
in 2001. Together with her colleagues and students, Margot works to develop
computational tools to optimize the development of energy resources. She is
active in large-scale solar development, wind farm optimization, marine energy,
as well as mitigation of the harmful environmental impacts of oil and gas
production. Margot is an expert in energy resources, fluid dynamics and
computational mathematics, and teaches courses in these areas. She regularly
advises NGOs, VCs, policymakers and the energy industry. Margot produces a
podcast show on energy issues at http://www.smartenergyshow.com.
Ian Hsu has
been director of Internet Media Research at Stanford since 2007. A graduate of
Stanford's class of 1998 in electrical engineering, Ian went on to earn a
master's in management science and engineering in 2001. He previously worked at
Advanced Micro Devices and Spansion, AMD's spinoff, the latter as a manager of
internet marketing, before joining a startup called FilmLoop in 2006. For his
work on Stanford's university Facebook strategy, Ian was awarded the 2009
Excellence in New Communcations Award by the Society for New Communication
Research (SNCR), a global non-profit research and education think-tank
dedicated to the understanding of new media. Ian's work at Stanford has
been covered by many educational and new media publications including The
Chronicle of Higher Education, CASE Currents, Mashable and Inside Facebook.