Meet the
TEAM
The people behind Horizons 2026
Student Leadership
Artash Nath
Student Director for DroneHacks, StanfordUAV co-Lead, and Robotics Club Executive Board member
Anish Bayya
Associate Student Director for DroneHacks, StanfordUAV co-Lead, and Robotics Club Executive Board member
Kelvin Nguyen
Drone Software Lead for DroneHacks, StanfordUAV Software Lead
Julia Jiang
Drone Hardware Lead for DroneHacks, StanfordUAV Multirotor Lead
Khush Lalchandani
Operations Lead for DroneHacks, StanfordUAV Software Engineer
Guilherme Bonfim
Marketing Lead for DroneHacks, StanfordUAV Avionics Lead, and Robotics Club Vice President
James Gu
Web Lead for DroneHacks
Jess Yang
Media and Design Lead for DroneHacks
Gregory Li
Autonomy Systems for DroneHacks and StanfordUAV
Victor Chen
Advisor to DroneHacks, Stanford XR Co-lead
Staff & Faculty Advisory Board
Steve Cousins
Executive Director, Stanford Robotics Center
Trudy Gonzalez
Staff Organizer for DroneHacks, Ast. Director of Stanford Computer Forum
Eiko Rutherford
Program Manager, Stanford Robotics Center
Steve Collins
Faculty Advisor, Stanford Robotics Club, Assc. Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Thomas Kenny
Sr. Associate Dean of Engineering for Education & Student Affairs, School of Engineering
J.D. Sassaman
Exec. Director, Clubhouse for Hardware Innovation Projects
Jeff Gordon
Sr. Associate Director of Corporate Relations, School of Engineering — External Relations
William R. Van Dalsem
Former senior executive at NASA Ames Research Center; Stanford Adj. Lecturer