Nilay Papila, PhD
PhD, Aerospace Engineering · Assistant Director · Technology Transition for Defense
Nilay has spent her career inside the infrastructure of federally funded research. An aerospace engineer by training, she serves as Assistant Director for Technology Transition for Defense at Stanford, building the processes that carry university research toward defense programs, the same machinery Kernel now scales.
Jeffrey Decker, PhD
Former U.S. Army Ranger · Program Director, Stanford Hacking for Defense · Managing Director, Technology Transition for Defense
Jeff leads Stanford’s Hacking for Defense program and serves as Managing Director of Technology Transition for Defense. A former U.S. Army Ranger, he wrote the book on selling to defense and has spent the last decade teaching researchers and founders how to move technology from the lab into the hands of the people who need it.