Alina Gavrilov

Alina Gavrilov (she/her) is a master’s student in Computational and Mathematical Engineering, interested in applying engineering, computational, and policy tools to advance healthy communities with resilient infrastructure ecosystems, broadly including built transportation and energy infrastructure and also education, health, and policy infrastructure. She studied Humanitarian Engineering and Mathematics as an undergraduate student at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and went on to work as a public sector bridge engineer for the City of Columbus, Ohio for several years. Alina also served as a professional advancement instructor, designing and delivering curriculum to undergraduate research fellows at Station1, a nonprofit organization advancing socially-directed science and technology. Alina has contributed to several undergraduate and professional research projects in wastewater treatment optimization, socioresilient infrastructure, and socially and environmentally-informed computational design tools for novel materials. Her research at Stanford currently investigates how wearable technology can bridge gaps in menstruation health data to include a racial and gender demographic representative of the US population.

As a child of refugees from Ukraine and Uzbekistan, Alina has many experiences advocating for her own learning and belonging in domains entirely new to her. Grateful to her own mentors, she spends time supporting science and engineering students from underrepresented intersectional backgrounds across topics including writing undergraduate and graduate university applications, building compelling personal digital brands, and creating belonging throughout the nonlinear experience of “otherness.” Alina has participated in boards and committees with New Leaders Council (NLC) Columbus, Young Professionals in Transportation (YPT) International, and Women in Transportation Seminar (WTS) Columbus. Driven by her core belief that this earth and its people are worthy of the best efforts, Alina remains committed to cultivating a meaningful vocation and empowering her community to thrive.