Program participants

With support from the TomKat Center, Emily Tench is building an AI partner for infrastructure developers to de-risk their projects from the earliest stages.

With support from the TomKat Center and the Stanford Sustainability Accelerator, scholars are working to scale a fast-acting fertilizer that captures carbon.

Data centers, extreme weather and a lack of federal climate regulation could put major strains on the U.S. power grid. Alice Hill, a former White House senior director for resilience policy, discusses what it will take to protect energy systems in a warming world and why investing before disaster strikes always beats recovering after.

With support from a grant from the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, Earth system science master's student Mustafa Sultan is building an efficient HVAC system for the modern electricity grid.

With support from the TomKat Center, two Stanford alumni are working to transform biowaste such as palm fibers into oil feedstocks for advanced fuels.

Founded by two Stanford postdoctoral scholars and supported by an Innovation Transfer Grant from the TomKat Center, startup Electroflow Technologies converts abundant saltwater brines in the U.S. into a key material needed for batteries.

With early support from the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, Matías Castillo, MBA/MS ’20, Juan Cristóbal Ruiz-Tagle, and Cristian Bartolomé, MS '19 co-founded Pulsar to help manufacturers to operate smarter with quality data.

With support from the TomKat Center’s Graduate Fellowship in Translational Research, PhD student Daniel Neamati is modeling prescribed burns to better manage wildfires.

Joseph Kao, MS ’24 received a Stanford Impact Founder (SIF) Ecopreneurship fellowship to develop a high-impact startup. He went on to co-found a startup to produce AI-informed sensors that extend lifetime and maximize resiliency for aging power infrastructure systems.

Supported by the Stanford Impact Fellowship (SIF-Eco), master's student Meghan Wood is building a permit-free and renter-friendly solar solution through startup Raya Power.

As a recipient of a TomKat Graduate Fellowship for Translational Research, PhD student Lauren Gillespie develops tools for estimating biodiversity in ecosystems.

Supported by an early grant from the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, David Mackanic, PhD ’20, co-founded Anthro Energy, a startup that innovates safer, longer-lasting, more powerful batteries.

Supported by a grant from the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, hydrogen storage startup Verne wants to replace diesel fuel with hydrogen power.

Lauren Dunford, ’09, MBA ’18, is using real-time data to streamline manufacturing.

Stanford Impact Founder Ecopreneurship Fellow Raj Tilwa, MBA ’24 is electrifying personal heating systems for homes and businesses.

Sarah Johnson, ’16, MBA ’22, sees promise in fixing broken digital devices.

A Stanford fraternity is restoring native California coastal habitats and redefining what it means to be part of Greek life, one plant at a time.

Supported by an Innovation Transfer Grant from the TomKat Center, Fleet Logistics Intelligence Platform, or FLIP, is predicting the road ahead for vehicle fleets with machine learning.