For qualified computer science PhD students only. Permission number required for enrollment; see the CS PhD program administrator in Gates room CS 195. Educational opportunities in high technology research and development labs in the computing industry. Qualified computer science PhD students engage in research and integrate that work into their academic program. Students register under their faculty advisor during the quarter they are employed and complete a research report outlining their work activity, problems investigated, results, and follow-on projects they expect to perform. Students on F1 visas should be aware that completing CS 12 or more months of full-time CPT will make them ineligible for Optional Practical Training (OPT).
For qualified computer science PhD students only. Permission number required for enrollment; see the CS PhD program administrator in Gates room 195. Educational opportunities in high technology research and development labs in the computing industry. Qualified computer science PhD students engage in research and integrate that work into their academic program. Students register under their faculty advisor during the quarter they are employed and complete a research report outlining their work activity, problems investigated, results, and follow-on projects they expect to perform. Students on F1 visas should be aware that completing 12 or more months of full-time CPT will make them ineligible for Optional Practical Training (OPT).
Offered in Autumn 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026, Summer 2026 at Stanford University.
Autumn 2025 sections
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Katti, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Jurafsky, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Johari, R. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Koyejo, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Koller, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Kochenderfer, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Khatib, O. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Hanrahan, P. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Haber, N. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Guestrin, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Horowitz, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Hennessy, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Hayden, P. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Hashimoto, T. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Fatahalian, K. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Goel, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Follmer, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Genesereth, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Dally, B. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Brunskill, E. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Cain, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Durumeric, Z. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Engler, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Dror, R. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Duchi, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Prabhakar, B. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Piech, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Reingold, O. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Re, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Rubinstein, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Rosenblum, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Saberi, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Musen, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Montanari, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Olukotun, O. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Ng, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Pande, V. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Ousterhout, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Parlante, N. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Liang, P. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Ma, T. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Manning, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Mazieres, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — McKeown, N. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Mitchell, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Mitra, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Kundaje, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Lam, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Landay, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Leskovec, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Levis, P. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Levitt, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Zou, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Zelenski, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Young, P. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Winstein, K. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Wootters, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Widom, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Van Roy, B. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Wang, G. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Tobagi, F. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Valiant, G. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Tan, L. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Thrun, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Savarese, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Schwarz, K. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Sahami, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Salisbury, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Kennedy, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Boneh, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Bohg, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Boyd, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Bouland, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Barrett, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Altman, R. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Bernstein, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Bejerano, G. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Achour, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Sadigh, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Pavone, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Wu, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Vitercik, E. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Aiken, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Yeung, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Choi, Y. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Wetzstein, G. (Graduate)
Winter 2026 sections
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Tan, L. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Savarese, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Reingold, O. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Olukotun, O. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Ma, T. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Mazieres, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Levitt, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Levis, P. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Landay, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Kochenderfer, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Kennedy, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Follmer, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Fatahalian, K. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Goodman, N. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Guestrin, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Genesereth, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Goel, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Haber, N. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Bohg, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Bernstein, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Bejerano, G. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Barrett, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Brunskill, E. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Boyd, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Boneh, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Dror, R. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Charikar, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Cain, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Engler, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Durumeric, Z. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Duchi, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Altman, R. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Achour, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Fox, E. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Guibas, L. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Ermon, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Agrawala, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Fedkiw, R. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Adeli, E. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Finn, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Choi, Y. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Bouland, A. (Graduate)
Spring 2026 sections
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Niebles Duque, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Boneh, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Bohg, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Bernstein, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Bejerano, G. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Barrett, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Altman, R. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Follmer, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Genesereth, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Fatahalian, K. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Durumeric, Z. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Engler, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Dror, R. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Duchi, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Charikar, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Brunskill, E. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Cain, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Katti, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Jurafsky, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Kochenderfer, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Khatib, O. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Horowitz, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Johari, R. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — James, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Hanrahan, P. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Haber, N. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Goodman, N. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Goel, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Guestrin, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Ma, T. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Manning, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Mazieres, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — McKeown, N. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Levitt, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Liang, P. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Lam, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Landay, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Leskovec, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Levis, P. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Koyejo, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Kozyrakis, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Kundaje, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Prabhakar, B. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Piech, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Pavone, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Parlante, N. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Rubinstein, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Rosenblum, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Reingold, O. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Re, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Montanari, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Mitra, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Mitchell, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Ousterhout, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Olukotun, O. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Ng, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Van Roy, B. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Wang, G. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Valiant, G. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Winstein, K. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Wootters, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Wetzstein, G. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Widom, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Sahami, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Salisbury, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Saberi, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Sadigh, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Tan, L. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Thrun, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Savarese, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Schwarz, K. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Achour, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Liu, K. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Guibas, L. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Adeli, E. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Aiken, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Bouland, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Hashimoto, T. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Ermon, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Li, F. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Choi, Y. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Fedkiw, R. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Finn, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Agrawala, M. (Graduate)
Summer 2026 sections
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Follmer, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Genesereth, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Goel, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Engler, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Ermon, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Fatahalian, K. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Hanrahan, P. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Hashimoto, T. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Hayden, P. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Hennessy, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Goodman, N. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Guestrin, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Haber, N. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Khatib, O. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Katti, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Koller, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Kochenderfer, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — James, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Horowitz, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Jurafsky, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Johari, R. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Leskovec, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Landay, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Levitt, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Levis, P. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Kozyrakis, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Koyejo, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Lam, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Kundaje, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Bouland, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Boneh, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Bohg, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Bernstein, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Bejerano, G. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Barrett, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Altman, R. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Agrawala, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Durumeric, Z. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Duchi, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Dror, R. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Dally, B. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Charikar, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Cain, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Brunskill, E. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Boyd, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Schwarz, K. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Tan, L. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Thrun, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Tobagi, F. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Sadigh, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Sahami, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Salisbury, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Savarese, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Reingold, O. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Rosenblum, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Rubinstein, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Saberi, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Pavone, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Piech, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Prabhakar, B. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Re, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Ousterhout, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Olukotun, O. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Parlante, N. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Pande, V. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Montanari, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Mitra, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Ng, A. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Musen, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Mazieres, D. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Manning, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Mitchell, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — McKeown, N. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Liang, P. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Li, F. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Ma, T. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Liu, K. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Zou, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Zelenski, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Young, P. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Yeung, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Wootters, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Winstein, K. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Widom, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Wetzstein, G. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Wang, G. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Van Roy, B. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Valiant, G. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Kennedy, M. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Choi, Y. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Achour, S. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Wu, J. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Finn, C. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Guibas, L. (Graduate)
Independent Study — TBA TBA — Fedkiw, R. (Graduate)