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Anna Donlan
The Hertz Foundation provides
unique financial and fellowship
support to the nation’s most
remarkable PhD students in
the physical, biological and
engineering sciences. Hertz
Fellows become innovators and
leaders serving in ways that
benefit us all.
Current Events
Hertz Fellowship Selection:
• October 31, 2014 Applications Close
• November 2014 – March 2015 Interviews
• March 20, 2015 Hertz Fellows Selected
December 6, 2014
Hertz Dinner
Chicago Fellows & Friends, Chicago, IL
March 20, 2015
Hertz Board of Directors Dinner
Bay Area Fellows & Friends, San Mateo, CA
March 21, 2015
Hertz Board of Directors Meeting
San Mateo, CA
July 8-9, 2015
New Fellows Orientation
Asilomar Conference Grounds
Pacific Grove, CA
July 9-13, 2015
Summer Workshop
In School Fellows, Alumni Fellows & Friends
Asilomar Conference Grounds
Pacific Grove, CA
You Want Creativity with That?
By Jay Davis, President
Let’s deal openly with Hertz and the creativity question. I am very careful to say clearly
that we do not teach creativity. But oh boy, can we find it, support it, and nurture it to
spectacular results. And others agree!
A great example of finding creativity is given in Ashvin Bashyam’s beautiful interview in
the Alcade, the alumni magazine of the University of Texas, June 2014. Ashvin describes
how he was driven in his Hertz Interview to create cancer detection techniques well
beyond his level of expertise or comfort. (Ashvin featured in photo above; full interview
at http://alcalde.texasexes.org/ 2014/06/good-fellow.)
Several Hertz Fellows recently have been recognized for their demonstrated creativity
in science. Manjul Bahrgava at Princeton has been awarded the Fields Medal,
the math equivalent of the Nobel Prize, for his contributions to mathematics. Sean
Solomon was awarded the National Medal of Science for his exceptional work
leading the geophysical characterization of Venus and Mercury with the Magellan and
MESSENGER planet orbiters. Tami Bond was awarded a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship
for her work measuring and modeling the planetary carbon cycle. Louis Lerman’s
QuarkStarCorporation was listed as one of, “The 20 Hottest Companies in Lighting.”
Ed Boyden and Christian Wentz were named to the “Ten Hottest Under 40” list in
biotechnology. And finally, yes the Army does do creativity – Richard Staats has been
promoted to Brigadier General, USA. As always, I think John Hertz would be proud,
as surely we are.
west coast retreat
creativity on campus
Ousterhout Sisters Designing Next
Generation Coding and Systems
Kay Ousterhout, Hertz Fellow 2011, and Amy Ousterhout, Hertz Fellow 2013, Named
Google Fellowship, represent the first pair of sisters in the history of the Hertz Fellowship.
Kay studies computer science at University of California, Berkeley. Amy studies computer
science at MIT. Both women grew up in Palo Alto, California, and earned undergraduate
degrees in computer science at Princeton University.
Hertz Fellows, Monterey Bay, CA.
“Splashing Success!”
Forty in school Hertz Fellows reunited for the
annual West Coast Retreat at Asilomar
Conference Grounds in California on October
3-5. The weekend launched with an ocean
ecology presentation and marine field station
tour by Stanford Professor Steven Palumbi,
Director of Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station.
Professor Palumbi discussed his research
findings on coral adaptation to rising ocean
temperatures. Guest speakers Chethan
Pandarinath and Paul Nuyujukian, both
postdoctoral fellows in the Stanford Neural
Prosthetics Translational Laboratory, astounded
Fellows with their talk on progress in developing
state-of-the-art neural prosthetics.
What sparked your interest in computer science?
KAY: In my junior year of high school, I ended up with time in my schedule where computer
science was one of the few courses available. Most of the students in the class had
computer science experience. (I had none.) With encouragement from Mr. Thibodaux, the
teacher and my advisor, I agreed to try the class. He dedicated extra time to help me catch
up. I might never have ended up in computer science if not for his early encouragement.
AMY: I’ve been interested in engineering for as long as I can remember. I was captivated
by construction-based toys such as K’Nex and Rokenbok as a child. I built balsa wood
airplane wings for a science fair project. I also took all of the engineering and computer
science classes offered in high school. At Princeton, I explored engineering, but was
quickly attracted by the boundless expressiveness of computer science. In code I can
represent things that are infinite or have hundreds of dimensions. I can solve problems
that take days of CPU time in minutes by parallelizing them, or use a hundred times more
memory by distributing a task across many machines. I’m confined only by the limitations
of my mind to conceive novel solutions.
What are your goals for your research?
KAY: My research centers on making large-scale data
analytics more efficient. For example, a company like
Walmart might use data about purchases from all
customers at all of their stores to improve advertising
or pricing strategies. My research aims to do this data
analysis more quickly (e.g., fast enough to be updated
dynamically when a customer visits a new page on
the website) and more efficiently (e.g., using only 10
machines instead of 100).
The engineering challenge required fellows
to decode puzzles leading them to GPS
coordinates for cool sub-$1 sunglasses;
and Fellows learned a new skill – the art of
lock-picking, led by Fellow Megan Blewett.
Fellows at lock-picking engineering challenge.
AMY: My current research focuses on datacenter
networks. Large companies such as Amazon,
Facebook, and Google each operate many
datacenters throughout the world. When a user
requests a webpage (for example, a Facebook profile
Amy reboots a server in CSAIL
page), that request is sent to one computer in the
cluster at MIT.
datacenter, which then sends out dozens of requests
to other computers in the datacenter. My research broadly focuses on optimizing the
communication that occurs in this datacenter network. In a datacenter network the goal
may be to minimize the average amount of time it takes before each packet of data arrives
at its destination computer. I design the algorithms, protocols, and tools that enable
datacenter networks to optimize complex objectives.
Jason Dorfman
No trip to Monterey Bay would be complete
without a guided kayaking tour, giving Fellows
the opportunity to paddle with other Fellows
and sea lions and otters alike! Thank you to
the West Coast Retreat planning team: Megan
Blewett, Kay Ousterhout, and Max Shulaker,
and to retreat sponsor Louis Lerman.
Describe the unique challenges or innovations in your research.
KAY: Many researchers in my area don’t have access to the large clusters where
production data analysis workloads are run. As a result, many researchers have based
their research on unverified assumptions about properties of these workloads. I’m currently
working on a measurement study that illustrates that many traditional assumptions about
data analytics workloads are incorrect.
east coast retreat
Fellows on the beach for twilight clambake and fun.
“A Blast!”
Patents, pyrotechnics, physics applied to
Amy (left) and Kay Ousterhout (right), Hertz Fellows and sisters. Kay (right) adjusts cabling
for UC Berkeley NetSys Lab server cluster.
AMY: One challenge in my research is scalability. It’s often easy to design a solution
that performs well on a network of a dozen or so computers, but does not perform well
on networks of hundreds or thousands of servers. Designing robust systems that can
maintain correctness and continue to progress in the face of communications failures
is quite a challenge.
How has the Hertz Fellowship influenced your research?
KAY: The Hertz Fellowship has given me more flexibility to select the projects I work
on, enabling me to undertake more risky and potentially more influential research.
AMY: The Hertz Fellowship has made it easy for me to be involved in multiple research
groups, exposing me to different perspectives and to areas of research that are related
to but not identical to my own.
As sisters, do you collaborate or share ideas about research?
KAY: We collaborated on the Princeton Women in Computer Science group. I started
the group when I was a junior, and Amy became president after I left. Amy improved the
group significantly; she started an outreach program with a local all-girl’s middle and high
school to introduce girls to computer science. We’re also in very similar research areas,
along with our dad, who is a professor at Stanford. Our family dinner table conversations
often turn into research conversations – something our mom does not always appreciate!
She was a PhD student in computer science at UC Berkeley, and has since transitioned
to management.
immunology, and what’s new at Google captured
the range of speaker-led topics at the annual
East Coast Retreat for in school Hertz Fellows
held September 26-28. Forty fellows ventured to
Thompson Island, Massachusetts, to collaborate
with each other and learn from guest speakers.
Chuck Wilson, Hertz Fellow and President of
Unum Therapeutics spoke about his experience
launching a cancer immunotherapy startup.
He shared observations about how his physics
background is useful in biological applications.
Jim Freedman, MIT Technology Licensing Office,
discussed how to patent inventions generated
during graduate education. Alfred Spector,
Hertz Fellow and Vice President at Google,
spoke about Google’s present and future goals.
John Steinberg, Pyrotechnics & Energetic
Materials and Kurt Medlin, Senior Analyst at
Kaiser Permanente, explained the chemistry
behind the pyrotechnics used in fireworks.
AMY: Our areas of computer science are similar enough that we can easily understand
each others’ work, but different enough that Kay’s research exposes me to questions and
challenges that I would not likely encounter on my own. I also benefit enormously from
her advice, as I frequently confront challenges and decisions that she experienced two
years earlier.
Fellows aboard the ferry to Thompson Island, MA.
What keeps you motivated in your research and goals?
KAY: Thinking I can change the world! That’s partially a joke…one exciting thing about
research is the ability to do very forward-looking projects. It’s exciting to think that a
system you’re working on could guide the way everyone builds systems in the next five
to ten years.
AMY: I maintain a list of my long-term research goals, and consult it regularly. This helps
me stay focused on the big picture. My list also reminds me of what I hope to eventually
achieve with my research, which provides great motivation.
After a clambake on the beach, John and Kurt
ignited controlled pyrotechnic demonstrations to
enact the chemical reactions they described.
Thank you to the East Coast Retreat organizing
team: Max Mankin, Kelly Moynihan and Vyas
Ramanan; and to sponsor Louis Lerman.
Hertz Financial Report
and Fundraising Progress
new frontiers
By Amanda O’Connor, Development Manager
Community. Fiscal year 2014 was a record
year for participation among Hertz Fellows
with 30% contributing to the Fellowship
Program. Our continuous upward trend in
Fellow participation illustrates a commitment
to the Hertz Community and the Foundation’s
compelling mission. We strive to achieve
contributions from “Every Fellow Every Year.”
Equally as encouraging was the record number
of 268 contributors. This was a 37% increase
over fiscal year 2013 and included over 50
new donors.
Stewardship. One of our primary objectives
this year was to bring much higher standards to
our transparency and stewardship in operation.
The figure below shows the audited Hertz
Foundation Operating Expenses for FY 2014.
We projected a budget of $3,868,498 for the
year and actually expensed $3,752,627. Direct
expenses were 80% of the budget – a strong
result for a small charity.
Growth. Beginning in the 2014 fiscal year,
we made a call to action within our Hertz
Community to make non-binding five-year
pledges, allowing us to project income against
our expenses. Nearly 70 of our Fellows and
Hertz Friends answered the call making
pledges totaling $1.7 million. During the year
we received $2 million in cash contributions,
$300,000 of it from pledges.
Fellowship $2.3M
Fellowship Support $0.7M
Management & Operations $0.5M
Development $0.3M
20%
60%
13%
7%
More detailed financial information is available at
www.hertzfoundation.org.
Michael Druggan and Carnegie Mellon
Community, Stewardship, Growth. This is an
exhilarating time to be partners in innovation
with the Hertz Foundation. Between the records
we are setting in fundraising and participation,
the strong financial position we maintain, and
the growth of the Hertz Community, we are all
part of a thriving organization that continues
to strengthen and be reflective of the mission
set forth by Fannie and John Hertz over 50
years ago.
Po-Shen Loh, Hertz Fellow, teaches graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University.
Risk-taking in Academia and
Entrepreneurship
Po-Shen Loh, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University, Co-Founder, Expii
How did you decide to go into academia versus private industry or other
career paths?
I’ve always been open-minded towards all opportunities in industry and academia, and
I had spent some enjoyable time working in the financial sector prior to completing my
PhD. Ultimately I was drawn to academia due to its fusion of research and education.
I have always enjoyed coaching extraordinary talent – I had been working as an assistant
coach for the national Math Olympiad ever since I was an undergraduate at Caltech.
When the offer from Carnegie Mellon University arrived, my decision was over because
I recognized CMU as a school with great talent and even greater potential. With my CMU
colleague John Mackey, we built an incubator program for extreme math talent; as one
measure of the talent involved, the CMU Putnam team ranked #2, #5, and #2 over the
last three years.
What are the greatest challenges and rewards you see in academia today?
I think academia’s major efforts – research and education – are under significant pressure.
The public research budget is not guaranteed to sustain, and research institutions (with
hundred+ year time horizons) must be able to ride through an uncertain public funding
climate. In some sense, the public attitude towards (and appreciation for) math and
science is critical, because the public’s votes influence how politicians spend national
budgets. It would then be beneficial if private organizations or corporations (with missions
aligned with research) sponsored research, especially basic research. The Simons
Foundation is an excellent example. It would also be wonderful if another Bell Labs arose.
Higher education itself also needs to update to the modern age, where technology enables
the recording and mass-replication/mass-distribution of the traditional lecture, at minimal
cost. It will be difficult to justify paying thousands of dollars to attend 300 person lectures.
However, I think there will always be a demand for ultra-high-end or highly customized
educational experiences, where students grow under the personal mentorship of experts.
Our incubator program at CMU fills that need for a “bespoke” service, which can never be
replicated by an automated online system.
What methods or strategies do you use in teaching to motivate your students?
In teaching, I always try to increase the ceiling of a topic’s complexity, to connect
topics with applications (either elsewhere in math or in real life), and to talk about
Hertz Summer Workshop
neat mathematical truths that I myself am excited by. I also build an environment in
encouraging a two-way dialogue with me. I host open lunches with students two days a
week, to expand discussions beyond the walls of the classroom, and to open conversation
on topics outside of mathematics as well. I encourage students to develop not only one
dimension, but their whole package, and during these informal discussions I share my
own experiences.
Looking ahead, is there a grand global challenge you’d like to be part of to
innovate solutions?
I’ve been involved in education ever since I was a student myself. I’m very interested in
not only increasing access to education worldwide, but also in fundamentally increasing
interest in math and science worldwide. There are issues of public perception to confront.
One of my life goals is to make math/science actually “cool”.
Elaborate on your entrepreneurial venture, Expii.
Expii makes several strides towards that goal for education. I co-founded the venture
with Ray Li, an International Math Olympiad silver medalist. Our team includes seven
other Hertz Fellows as scientific/strategic consultants including Michael Busch, Zhou
Fan, Ylaine Gerardin, Maria Gillespie, Elena Koslover, Adam Marblestone, and Ed Marti.
We built an open website, expii.com, that empowers everybody to collaboratively create
interactive expositions on math and science topics. Wikipedia brought the same
phenomenon to the encyclopedia domain.
More than one hundred Hertz Fellows gathered
at the 2014 Summer Workshop, held at Sonoma
State University, July 31-August 4. Guest
speakers included Al Romig, Lockheed Martin
Skunk Works; Davor Sutija, Hertz Fellow, CEO
of ThinFilm, Norway; Kim Budil, Hertz Fellow
and Director, VP of Laboratory Management,
UC Office of the President; and Neil Jablon,
Hertz Fellow, Qualcomm Technologies. In
addition, Hertz Thesis Prize awardees gave
presentations on their current research. Two
teams of Fellows spoke about the growth
of their start-up companies, funded by the
Hertz-Newman Initiative Awards. Tackling the
engineering challenge, hiking, olive-oil tasting,
and touring Sonoma were also part of the fun,
collaboration and networking. Thank you to
the planning team Katie Maass, Tony Miller,
Tony Pan, and Mollie Schwartz, and especially
to Ray Sidney for sponsoring the event.
Our goal for Expii is to create the definitive publiclyaccessible destination for truly engaging, exciting,
and interactive expositions which reveal the fun in
math and science. We provide an easy-to-author-in
language to create expositions, and to set the crowd
free. Ultimately, we aim to provide a systematic
learning platform which is simultaneously freely-accessible,entertaining/engaging,
adaptive, and complete. We think that the key ingredient is to empower the world of
contributors through crowd-sourcing.
How has the Hertz Fellowship influenced your life trajectory so far?
The Hertz Fellowship fundamentally influenced my trajectory in three ways. First, it
enabled me to work with a truly fantastic PhD advisor, Benny Sudakov. His mentorship
was essential in bringing my research program to the level which led to my position
at CMU.
In a completely different dimension, the frequent highlighting of entrepreneurship at
Hertz Fellowship activities piqued my interest in making the leap myself. It was refreshing
to hear a variety of perspectives on careers – ranging from academia to industry to
entrepreneurship. The Hertz Newman Entrepreneurial Initiative also played a significant
role in getting me thinking about ventures. I suppose I was always somewhat of a
risk-taker!
Finally, the Hertz Fellows network itself is exceptionally rich. While building our venture,
it was very helpful to have a trusted group of amazing friends (Hertz Fellows) to bring
on to address areas of their expertise. When organizing our Physics/Science curricula, it
was natural to bring on great partners from the Hertz community. Over the past decade,
the Hertz gatherings have built a strong community which has seeded high-impact
Hertz-Hertz collaborations.
How do you leverage your time for personal and professional productivity?
To borrow a line from Lowell Wood: “There are 168 hours in a week.” More seriously,
I’m fundamentally passionate about my educational and research activities. I don’t
feel drained by any of the activities that I engage in; rather, I can’t get enough of them.
Personally, I am fortunate to be married to a wonderful person who understands and
supports the crazy things that I try, and who shares the same work ethic. We met at
Caltech as undergraduates 14 years ago.
Hertz Fellows (top to bottom): Dario Amodei;
Will Allen and Justin Solomon; Katie Maass and
Tony Pan; Emma Pierson and Zhou Fan; Cheri
Ackerman, Emily Davis, and Tom Tombrello, Director.
(In remembrance of Tom, we are grateful for his
service to the Hertz Foundation and Fellows.)
philanthropic leadership
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Ray Sidney – Catalyzing the Hertz Community
David Galas, Hertz Chairman and Hertz Fellow; Ray Sidney, Hertz Fellow; John Mather, Nobel Laureate and
Hertz Fellow; Jay Davis, Hertz President. Ray meets 2014 Fellow, Katelin Schutz, at Summer Workshop.
Ray Sidney, Hertz Fellow 1991, grew up as a faculty brat, near the University of Connecticut
in Storrs, Connecticut. He inherited a healthy appreciation for math from his mathematician
father, and always found himself drawn to math, science, and programming. His undergraduate
studies began as a physics major at Caltech, and then finished with an AB in mathematics at
Harvard in 1991. With the support of a Hertz Fellowship, Ray attended MIT, completed his PhD
in cryptography and began his career working as a cryptographer and security professional.
A few years later, he became passionate about the challenges in software development.
A certain amount of Silicon Valley good luck and connections conspired to give Ray the
opportunity to become the second engineer at Google in 1999. He considers that some of
the most productive days of his life were spent working with other Googlers, helping to build
something that the whole team was very passionate about.
With the success of Google, Ray found himself in a position to help contribute to moving the
world forward in the right direction. He comments, “I believe almost everyone is a philanthropist
at heart, and that we all make contributions of ourselves in different ways, as much we feel
we are able.” Ray personally puts his philanthropic interests into three general buckets: local
philanthropy, change-the-world philanthropy, and sentimental philanthropy (such as donating
to his alma mater).
The Hertz Foundation was a natural fit for Ray’s philanthropic efforts, given his love of
science, his belief in the importance of technology for the future of humanity and Earth, and
his personal experience as a Hertz Fellow. Ray partnered with the Foundation to endow five
Hertz Fellowships. He’s convinced that Hertz Fellows will contribute to solving some of the
most important world problems.
At the first Hertz Symposium in 2009, Ray had an idea about how to catalyze a stronger
community among Fellows. With Ray’s sponsorship, the Foundation made the idea of annual
Summer Workshops a reality. Now in school Fellows and Hertz alumni annually gather from
across the country to meet as friends and collaborators. Ray believes the biggest benefit of the
Workshops is an indirect one and is largely yet to come. He envisions that Hertz Fellows who
have known each other for years will work together to achieve things far greater than what they
could achieve alone. Other Fellows, most notably Louis Lerman, have also supported building
a community of Hertz Fellows. Ray says enthusiastically, “There are some truly amazing
people in the Hertz Community, and I look forward to seeing what they can make happen!”
Ray’s work and career continue to evolve in new directions. He stepped back from his hands-on
technical career and began investing in real estate and start-ups; he has also become involved
with education and various non-profits such as the X PRIZE Foundation. He is currently
concluding an executive MBA program at UC Berkeley, which for the vast majority of his life
would have struck him as an unconventional use of his time. “When I’m safely back out of
school in a few months, I plan on taking a little R&R, and then begin thinking about what I
can do next to make a difference. Whatever shape that takes, I know I’ll be gaining inspiration
from the Hertz Fellows.”
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
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Bill & Melinda Gates
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National Laboratory
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July 9-13, 2015
Summer Workshop
Pacific Grove, CA
Hertz Fellows 2013-14 PhD Theses
Paul Abel, University of Texas at Austin, Chemistry
Chemical Modification of Nanocolumnar
Semiconductor Electrodes for Enhanced Performance
as Lithium and Sodium-Ion Battery Anode Materials
Alan Deckelbaum, MIT, Mathematics
The Structure of Auctions: Optimality and Efficiency
Darcy Grinolds, MIT, Chemistry
Translating Semiconductor Device Physics into
Nanoparticle Films for Electronic Applications
Joseph Rosenthal, Cornell, Biomedical Engineering
Engineered Outer Membrane Vesicles Derived
from Probiotic Escherichia Coli Nissle 1917 as
Recombinant Subunit Antigen Carriers for the
Development of Pathogen-mimetic Vaccines
Peter Scherpelz, University of Chicago, Physics
Localized, Collective Excitations in Strongly Interacting
Superfluids: Pseudovortices, Vortices, Solitons, and
their Physical Implications
Po-Ling Loh, UC Berkeley, Statistics
High-dimensional Statistics with Systematically
Corrupted Data
Melanie Smith, UC San Francisco, Quantitative
Biology and Applied Physics, The Recognition,
Regulation and Roles of Misfolded Proteins in
the Cell
Adam Marblestone, Harvard, Biophysics
and Biotechnology, Designing Scalable Biological
Interfaces
Valentin Spitkovsky, Stanford, Computer Science
Grammar Induction and Parsing with Dependencyand-Boundary Models
G. Edward Marti, UC Berkeley, Physics
Scalar and Spinor Excitations in a Ferromagnetic
Bose-Einstein Condensate
Jeffrey Thompson, Harvard, Physics
A Quantum Interface between Single Atoms and
Nanophotonic Structures
Anand Oza, MIT, Applied Mathematics
A Trajectory Equation for Walking Droplets:
Hydrodynamic Pilot-waveTheory
Floris van Breugel, Caltech, Control and
Dynamical Systems, Complex Behavior and
Perception in Drosophila Emerges from Iterative
Feedback-regulated Reflexes
Matthew Pelliccione, Stanford, Applied Physics
Local Imaging of High Mobility Two-Dimensional
Electron Systems with Virtual Scanning Tunneling
Microscopy
Jeffrey Weber, Stanford, Chemistry
Far-from-equilibrium Phenomena in Protein Dynamics
Science images (left) by Hertz Fellows: Kathleen Alexander, MIT; Cameron Myhrvold, Harvard; Brian Camley, UC Santa Barbara; Daniel
Lecoanet, UC Berkeley. Editors: Diann Callaghan & Amanda O’Connor; Design: Barnett Design
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