Dr. Naima Sharaf got her undergraduate degree in Chemistry at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She carried out her Ph.D. studies at the University of Pittsburgh in the lab of Dr. Angela Gronenborn where she used fluorine solution NMR to understand inhibitor-induced conformational changes with HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. To expand her structural biology skill set, she undertook postdoctoral training at Caltech in the lab of Dr.

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Beth Pruitt
Talk Title: Coaxial Tip Piezoresistive Scanning Probes with Sub-Nanometer Vertical Displacement Resolution
Event: IEEE Sensors 2010 Conference - Nahid's paper was in the top 10% of accepted contributions and was selected for a special issue of the IEEE Sensors Journal (July 2011 issue).

Dr. Kochenderfer is the director of the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory (SISL), conducting research on advanced algorithms and analytical methods for the design of robust decision making systems, particularly systems for air traffic control, unmanned aircraft, and other aerospace applications where decisions must be made in uncertain, dynamic environments while maintaining safety and efficiency.