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5 Powerful Female Engineers

Alumnae recognized for engineering, management chops.

September 2018

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5 Powerful Female Engineers

The news website Business Insider named five Stanford alumnae to its 39 Most Powerful Female Engineers of 2018 list.

Photo: Courtesy Girl Scouts of the United States of America

Sylvia Acevedo, MS ’83, CEO of the Girl Scouts and a former NASA engineer, who supported the creation of new badges in robotics, coding, engineering and cybersecurity

Photo: Chris Morgan/Idaho National Laboratory 

Noël Bakhtian, MS ’07, PhD ’12, director of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies at Idaho National Laboratory, which is working to solve major energy problems related to advanced manufacturing, nuclear energy, cybersecurity, supercomputing and other fields

Photo: Courtesy Yael Garten

Yael Garten, PhD ’10, director of Siri Data Science and Analytics at Apple, who determines how Apple uses data to guide its voice assistant

Photo: Christophe Wu

Caitlin Kalinowski, ’04, the interim head of hardware at Oculus, the Facebook division that oversees its virtual reality headset

Photo: Facebook

Deborah Liu, MBA ’02, vice president of Facebook’s Marketplace, where she runs the company’s buyer and seller platform


Jill Patton, ’03, MA ’04, is a senior editor for Stanford.

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