Meet the
TEAM
The people behind Horizons 2026
Student Leadership
Anish Bayya
Assoc. Director, DroneHacks
Co-Lead, StanfordUAV
Kelvin Nguyen
Software Lead, DroneHacks
AI Lead, StanfordUAV
James Gu
Web Lead for DroneHacks
Khush Lalchandani
Operations Lead, DroneHacks
StanfordUAV Software Engineer
Guilherme Bonfim
Jess Yang
Media and Design Lead for DroneHacks
Gregory Li
Autonomy Systems for DroneHacks and StanfordUAV
Victor Chen
Advisor, DroneHacks
Co-Lead, StanfordXR
Rushil Ladhawala
DroneHacks Organizing Team
Jonathan Lie
DroneHacks Organizing Team
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
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
Ash Chaudhry
Senior Research Consultant, Stanford University