Deland Chan, Program on Urban Studies
Deland Chan comes from an urban planning background and has worked on transportation planning and land use projects in San Francisco. She is interested in developing new methods and toolkits to enhance participatory planning and community-based approaches to sustainable development. At Stanford, she teaches Sustainable Cities, a project-based service learning class where students collaborate with Bay Area government agencies and non-profit organizations on sustainability projects, International Urbanization, which takes a comparative approach to sustainable development in the world's most rapidly urbanizing countries, and Civic Dreams Human Spaces, a course focusing on methods of participatory urban design at the Stanford d.school.

Kincho Law, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Kincho Law’s professional and research interests focus on the applications of computational and information science in engineering. His work has dealt with various aspects of computational science and engineering, computer aided design, legal and engineering informatics, engineering enterprise integration, web services and Internet computing. His research interests also include computational mechanics, structural dynamics, monitoring and control systems, numerical methods and large scale engineering simulations on distributed and parallel computers.