Recent Alumni
The Stanford Solar Car Project would like to recognize recent alumni who contributed greatly to the team, through leadership positions or membership, during their respective race cycles.
Sam D’Amico is a hardware engineer at Oculus VR. He was formerly a hardware engineer on Google Glass, and was embedded code lead for the 2011 race cycle.
Ian Girard first joined the team for a year as freshman and sophomore at the start of the ’09 car. He rejoined the team and went to Australia for the 2011 car and was co-mechanical team lead for 2013. He was a driver for the 2013 World Solar Challenge. He now works for Tesla Motors doing battery pack design.
Toby Sachs-Quintana earned his Ph.D. from the McGehee lab at Stanford University studying the degradation of organic solar cells. After his Ph.D. he will go onto work for the company that he co-founded with a colleague. The company, NexTint is fully funded and produces tint-on-demand window films that allow people to instantly control the amount of light and heat entering their homes or cars. Toby was the array team lead for the 2013 race cycle.
