Persis S. Drell is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Physics of Stanford University. Dr. Drell has been on the faculty at Stanford since 2002 and was the Dean of the Stanford School of Engineering from 2014 to 2017 and the Provost of Stanford from 2017 to 2023. She also served as the Director of SLAC from 2007 to 2012. Dr. Drell is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. Dr. Drell holds a PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley and an AB degree in Mathematics and Physics from Wellesley College. She joined the NVIDIA board in 2015.