Faculty Milestone Celebration
Provost Jenny Martinez and Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement Bonnie Maldonado proudly recognized the 202 Stanford University faculty members who were promoted with tenure and/or to full professor between Fall 2022 and Winter 2026 at the 2026 Faculty Milestone Celebration on March 11, 2026.
Joined by their families, colleagues, and mentors, the event celebrated their remarkable achievements as distinguished scholars, dedicated teachers, outstanding clinicians, and valued contributors to the University's academic community.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Mohammad Akbarpour
Promoted to Professor, July 1, 2024
Konstantinos Bimpikis
Promoted to Professor, November 1, 2023
Katherine Casey
Promoted to Professor, July 1, 2023
Amir Goldberg
Promoted to Professor, July 1, 2024
Benjamin Hebert
Tenured, July 1, 2024
Rebecca Lester
Tenured, July 1, 2023
Ivan Marinovic Vial
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2023
Ashley Martin
Tenured, July 1, 2025
Daniela Saban
Tenured, July 1, 2023
Navdeep Sahni
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Kevin Smith
Tenured, July 1, 2025
Paulo Somaini
Tenured, July 1, 2023
Takuo Sugaya
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2024
Stefan Wager
Tenured, July 1, 2024
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Antero Garcia
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Jelena Obradovic
Promoted to Professor, September 1. 2023
Rebecca Silverman
Promoted to Professor, June 1, 2024
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Sigrid Elschot
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Grace Gao
Tenured, September 1, 2024
Department of Bioengineering
Lacramioara Bintu
Tenured, July 1, 2025
Polly Fordyce
Tenured, January 1, 2023
Bo Wang
Tenured, June 1, 2025
Department of Chemical Engineering
Matteo Cargnello
Tenured, January 1, 2023
Alexander Dunn
Promoted to Professor, June 1, 2024
Thomas Jaramillo
Promoted to Professor, May 1, 2023
Jian Qin
Tenured, January 1, 2025
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Catherine Gorle
Tenured, March 1, 2023
Rishee Jain
Tenured, September 1, 2023
Christian Linder
Promoted to Professor, October 1, 2023
Hae Young Noh
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Department of Computer Science
Michael Bernstein
Promoted to Professor, August 1, 2025
Jeannette Bohg
Tenured, January 1, 2026
Ron Dror
Promoted to Professor, October 1, 2023
Jurij Leskovec
Promoted to Professor, April 1, 2023
Christopher Re
Promoted to Professor, January 1, 2025
Aviad Rubinstein
Tenured, August 1, 2025
Dorsa Sadigh
Tenured, October 16, 2024
Li-Yang Tan
Tenured, February 1, 2026
Mary Wootters
Tenured, September 1, 2023
Department of Electrical Engineering
Amin Arbabian
Promoted to Professor, January 1, 2026
Srabanti Chowdhury
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Ayfer Ozgur
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Priyanka Raina
Tenured, October 1, 2025
Department of Management Science and Engineering
Charles Eesley
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Markus Pelger
Tenured, September 1, 2024
Aaron Sidford
Tenured, September 1, 2023
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Eric Appel
Tenured, June 1, 2023
William Chueh
Promoted to Professor, May 1, 2025
Jennifer Dionne
Promoted to Professor, July 1, 2024
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ovijit Chaudhuri
Promoted to Professor, November 1, 2025
Sean Follmer
Tenured, November 1, 2023
Xun Gu
Tenured, October 1, 2025
Ali Mani
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES
Department of Anthropology
Andrew Bauer
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Duana Fullwiley
Promoted to Professor, February 1, 2025
Angela Garcia
Promoted to Professor, July 1, 2024
Department of Art and Art History
Terry Berlier
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2023
Jonathan Calm
Tenured, July 1, 2023
Shane Denson
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2024
Usha Iyer
Tenured, June 1, 2024
Srdan Keca
Tenured, September 1, 2024
Marci Kwon
Tenured, August 1, 2025
Emanuele Lugli
Tenured, September 1, 2025
Department of Biology
Scott Dixon
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Christopher Lowe
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2023
Ashby Morrison
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Ashley O'Connell
Tenured, June 1, 2024
Kabir Peay
Promoted to Professor, December 1, 2024
Mary Red-Horse
Promoted to Professor, January 1,2024
Molly Schumer
Tenured, September 1, 2024
Department of Chemistry
Lynette Cegelski
Promoted to Professor, January 1, 2024
Matthew Kanan
Promoted to Professor, January 1, 2024
Hemamala Karunadasa
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2024
Thomas Markland
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Department of Classics
Giovanna Ceserani
Promoted to Professor, August 1, 2024
Department of Communication
Angele Christin
Tenured, September 1, 2023
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
James Reichert
Tenured, February 1, 2026
Department of Economics
Adrien Auclert
Tenured, July 1, 2024
Arun Chandrasekhar
Promoted to Professor, July 1, 2024
Petra Persson
Tenured, July 1, 2025
Isaac Sorkin
Tenured, July 1, 2024
Department of English
Nicholas Jenkins
Promoted to Professor, January 1, 2026
Department of History
Jennifer Burns
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Joel Cabrita
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2024
Rowan Dorin
Tenured, September 1,2023
Jonathan Gienapp
Tenured, September 1, 2026
Ana Raquel Minian
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Kathryn Olivarius
Tenured, September 1, 2024
Steven Press
Tenured, September 1, 2023
Jun Uchida
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2023
Department of Mathematics
Otis Chodosh
Tenured, September 1, 2024
Jonathan Luk
Promoted to Professor, September 1,2023
Department of Music
Jesse Rodin
Promoted to Professor, September 1,2024
Department of Philosophy
Rosa Cao
Tenured, July 1, 2025
Thomas Icard
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2023
Wendy Salkin
Tenured, September 1, 2026
Department of Physics
Ben Feldman
Tenured, January 1, 2026
Peter Graham
Promoted to Professor, February 1, 2024
Jason Hogan
Tenured, September 1, 2023
Vedika Khemani
Tenured, November 1, 2023
Srinivas Raghu
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Douglas Stanford
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Department of Political Science
Adam Bonica
Promoted to Professor, September 1,2025
Margaret Chapman
Tenured, June 1,2025
Lauren Davenport
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Vasiliki Fouka
Tenured, September 1, 2023
Department of Psychology
Noah Goodman
Tenured, September 1, 2024
Daniel Yamins
Tenured, September 1,2024
Jamil Zaki
Promoted to Professor, September 1,2024
Department of Religious Studies
Elaine Fisher
Tenured, September 1, 2023
Kathryn Lum
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2023
Evan Mayse
Tenured, August 1, 2024
Michaela Mross
Tenured, September 1, 2025
Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
Tenured, September 1, 2024
Lerone Martin
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2024
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Yuliya Ilchuk
Tenured, September 1, 2023
Department of Sociology
Michelle Jackson
Tenured, September 1, 2024
Jackelyn Hwang
Tenured, September 1, 2024
Aliya Saperstein
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2023
Department of Statistics
Julia Palacios Roman
Tenured, September 1, 2023
SCHOOL OF LAW
Rabia Belt
Tenured and Promoted to Professor, August 1, 2023
Julian Nyarko
Tenured and Promoted to Professor, March 1, 2024
Diego Zambrano
Tenured and Promoted to Professor, February 1, 2024
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Eric Gross
Tenured, December 1, 2022
Department of Biochemistry
Rhiju Das
Promoted to Professor, April 1, 2023
Lingyin Li
Promoted to Professor, February 1, 2025
Rajat Rohatgi
Promoted to Professor, May 1, 2023
Department of Biomedical Data Science
Aaron Newman
Tenured, October 16, 2024
James Zou
Tenured, February 1, 2024
Department of Developmental Biology
Alistair Boettiger
Tenured, September 1, 2024
Kyle Loh
Tenured, October 1, 2025
Department of Chemical and Systems Biology
Daniel Jarosz
Promoted to Professor, January 1, 2026
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
Lorene Nelson
Promoted to Professor, July 1, 2025
Michelle Odden
Tenured, December 1, 2022
David Rehkopf
Promoted to Professor, August 1, 2025
Department of Genetics
Anshul Kundaje
Tenured, February 1, 2023
Jin Li
Promoted to Professor, November 1, 2023
Department of Health Policy
Maria Polyakova
Tenured, April 1, 2024
Department of Medicine
Jason Andrews
Promoted to Professor, January 1, 2024
Ami Bhatt
Promoted to Professor, July 1, 2024
Eran Bendavid
Promoted to Professor, May 1, 2024
Paul Bollyky
Promoted to Professor, May 1, 2024
Katrin Chua
Promoted to Professor, December 1, 2022
Vinicio de Jesus Perez
Promoted to Professor, July 1, 2024
Shirit Einav
Promoted to Professor, April 1, 2023
Tina Hernandez-Boussard
Promoted to Professor, February 1, 2023
Prasanna Jagannathan
Tenured, August 1, 2024
Hanlee Ji
Promoted to Professor, October 1, 2022
Purveshkumar Khatri
Tenured and Promoted to Professor, October 16, 2024
Jonathan Maltzman
Tenured, July 1, 2023
Taia Wang
Tenured, July 1, 2024
Joy Wu
Promoted to Professor, July 1, 2024
Donna Zulman
Promoted to Professor, December 1, 2025
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Jan Carette
Promoted to Professor, April 1, 2024
Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Merritt Maduke
Promoted to Professor, April 1, 2024
Department of Neurobiology
Shaul Druckmann
Tenured, September 1, 2023
Lisa Giocomo
Promoted to Professor, May 1, 2023
Michael Lin
Promoted to Professor, March 1, 2025
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Katrin Andreasson
Tenured and Promoted to Professor, March 1, 2023
Department of Neurosurgery
Jun Ding
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
Julia Kaltschmidt
Promoted to Professor, January 1, 2026
Xinnan Wang
Promoted to Professor, October 1, 2024
John Zuchero
Tenured, August 1, 2025
Department of Pathology
Robert Angelo
Tenured, October 1, 2023
Scott Boyd
Promoted to Professor, November 1, 2022
Siddhartha Jaiswal
Tenured, December 1, 2024
Jonathan Long
Tenured, March 1, 2024
Stephen Montgomery
Promoted to Professor, November 1, 2023
Ansuman Satpathy
Tenured, June 1, 2024
Katrin Svensson
Tenured, June 1, 2025
Le Cong
Tenured, December 1, 2025
Department of Pediatrics
Hung-Chieh Chou
Tenured, July 1, 2024
Elizabeth Egan
Tenured, June 1, 2024
Jason Yeatman
Tenured, April 1, 2023
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Booil Jo
Promoted to Professor, November 1, 2023
Daniel Mason
Tenured, September 1, 2025
Karen Parker
Tenured and Promoted to Professor, August 1, 2023
Carolyn Rodriguez
Promoted to Professor, October 1, 2022
Nolan Williams
Promoted to Professor, August 1, 2025
Department of Ophthalmology
Yang Hu
Promoted to Professor, May 1, 2024
Sui Wang
Tenured, October 1, 2025
Department of Radiation Oncology
Edward Graves
Promoted to Professor, October 1, 2025
Ruijiang Li
Tenured, October 1, 2025
Erinn Rankin
Tenured, September 1, 2024
Department of Radiology
Jeremy Dahl
Promoted to Professor, August 1, 2025
Michelle James
Tenured, March 1, 2025
Raag Airan
Tenured, January 1, 2026
STANFORD DOERR SCHOOL OF SUSTAINABILITY
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Erik Sperling
Tenured, July 1, 2023
Department of Earth System Science
Anne Dekas
Tenured, September 1, 2025
Alexandra Konings
Tenured, September 1, 2023
Paula Welander
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2024
Gabrielle Wong-Parodi
Tenured, September 1, 2025
Department of Energy Science and Engineering
Inês Azevedo
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2024
Ilenia Battiato
Tenured, September 1, 2023
Adam Brandt
Tenured, September 1, 2024
Simona Onori
Tenured, September 1, 2023
Department of Environmental Social Sciences
Marshall Burke
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2025
James Jones
Promoted to Professor, April 1, 2023
Department of Geophysics
Eric Dunham
Promoted to Professor, October 1, 2022
Jenny Suckale
Tenured, January 1, 2024
SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY
Kelly Gaffney
Promoted to Professor, September 1, 2023
Agostino Marinelli
Tenured, January 1, 2026
Emilio Nanni
Tenured, January, 1, 2026