Walter Woo is an MBA Candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an MPA Candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School. He previously served in the US Army in a variety of roles in the CENTCOM, INDOPACOM, and SOUTHCOM AORs. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point with a BS in Comparative Politics and Portuguese.

Huram-Abi Nzia Yotchoum is a Master’s student in Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University . He graduated from West Point where he commissioned as a U.S. Army Cyber Warfare Officer. His work focuses on deep learning, computational modeling, and large-scale simulations. As a Computing Scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he developed machine learning models for radiation modeling and sensing. He has experience in reinforcement learning for autonomous systems, and deep learning for security applications and has worked on defense-related AI applications and distributed computing.

Faith Zehfuss is a co-term student in the FSI Masters in International Policy with a concentration in International Security. She is currently continuing her work at 8VC on the defense investment team. As an undergraduate student, Faith was involved with Hacking for Defense and Women In National Security. She has international startup experience through Stanford SEED, assisted a refugee entrepreneurship project in Uganda for a year with the MS&E Department and Stanford King Center, and was a varsity lightweight rower.

Abby Reinhold is a first year MBA student at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Prior to the GSB, she worked for Boston Consulting Group, leading projects in the Public Sector and Industrial Goods practices.

Holland Ferguson is a co-term student in Electrical Engineering and holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Stanford. She has worked on R&D teams across the aerospace and deep tech sectors since age 16, including at SpaceX, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. At Stanford, Holland led the Liquid Propulsion Team within the Stanford Student Space Initiative and has recently focused her research on maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), particularly related to the PRC’s maritime militia in the South China Sea. As a National Security Innovation Scholar at the Gordian Knot Center, she developed an initial technical implementation plan for an open-source, multi-sensor maritime tracking and identification algorithm.

I’m a junior at Stanford majoring in Science Technology and Society (STS). At the Gordian Knot Center, I’m focused on maximizing the efficiency of the nuclear permitting process through modernization of associated data infrastructures and processes. My goal is to create a practical path toward faster, smarter regulation by bridging modern technology and governance.

Andrew Paulmeno is a graduate student at Stanford University, specializing in space, defense, and emerging technologies. A former Marine officer and entrepreneur, he is currently researching resilient dual-use systems and the supply chain needed to operationalize the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR).

Mandy is a Stanford M.S. student in Management Science & Engineering (also B.S. at Stanford in MS&E), with a focus on advanced technologies. She’s researched nuclear innovation and policy at the Hoover Institution, co-authoring the nuclear technologies section of the Stanford Emerging Technology Review. Through her work as a National Security Innovation Scholar at Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center, Mandy has focused on nuclear energy policy and tech commercialization, briefing the National Security Council at the White House on strategies to modernize the U.S. nuclear sector.