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Yuri Suzuki and David Goldhaber-Gordon named AAAS
Two Applied Physics faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Yuri Suzuki (Professor of Applied Physics) and David…
Surya Ganguli's work on diffusion models
Image-generating tools like DALL-E are powered by diffusion models, which generate a unique image from a text description starting from static noise. The first diffusion…
Junior Faculty Job Opening
The Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor. Applicants should exhibit the potential to run a world-…
Postdoc Fellowships: The 2023 Urbanek and Bloch
Announcing postdoctoral fellowships, the 2023 Urbanek & Chodorow Fellowships & the Bloch Fellowship in Quantum Science and Engineering
The Department of…
Amir Safavi-Naeini is a 2022 Moore Inventor Fellow
Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Amir Safavi-Naeini, has been chosen as one of the new 2022 Moore Inventor Fellows.
From the Moore Foundation:
Today, the Gordon…
Mark Schnitzer and Jelena Vučković named Vannevar
Two Applied Physics faculty named Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows. Mark Schnitzer (Professor of Applied Physics) and Jelena Vučković (Professor of Applied Physics, by courtesy…