Awarded in 2018
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisors: Joseph Woo (Cardiothoracic Surgery) and Eric Appel (Materials Science & Engineering)
Dr. Maayan Levy received her Ph.D. in Immunology from the Weizmann Institute of Science. After completion of her PhD, Dr. Levy became an Assistant Professor at the Microbiology Department of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Levy has recently joined the Stanford Medicine Department of Pathology as an Assistant Professor and the Arc Institute as an Innovation Investigator in Residence.
Dr. Mac Schwager is an Associate Professor in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at Stanford University. He earned his BS from Stanford in 2000, his MS from MIT in 2005, and his PhD from MIT in 2009. Dr. Schwager was a postdoc jointly at UPenn and MIT from 2009 to 2012, and was an assistant professor at Boston University from 2012 to 2015, before joining Stanford Aero-Astro in 2015. His research interests are in distributed algorithms for coordination, estimation, and learning in groups of robots and animals.
