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I am an Applied Physics PhD student studying complex biological and artificial networks. I apply various tools from physics, cognitive science, and machine learning to understand how artificial networks learn from data and how they might elucidate the mechanisms of intelligent behavior found in nature.
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Sky Shi graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2023 with a BS in Biology. She did her undergraduate thesis in Prof. Florian Engert lab at Harvard University, studying the emergence of vagal innervation of heart in larval zebrafish. Now at Stanford she has joined Prof. Lisa Giocomo's lab and is interested in the interaction between instinct behaviors and hippocampal-entorhinal circuit.
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I am a PhD student in the neuroscience area of the Psychology department, advised by Russell Poldrack. My research investigates various aspects of how people allocate effort, and I plan to use a combination of behavioral experiments, computational modeling, and fMRI neuroimaging. Before Stanford, I received my BSE degree in computer science from Princeton University, with certificates in cognitive science and linguistics, and then worked in the Niv Lab as a lab manager/research assistant for a year.
I am a PhD student in the Neuroscience area of the Department of Psychology, working with Laura Gwilliams. My research interest lies in understanding the neural mechanisms that enable successful speech comprehension by integrating insights from psychology, neuroscience, machine learning, and linguistics. Before coming to Stanford, I earned my BA in Psychology from Bogazici University, Turkey, and my MS in Cognitive Science from the University of Trento, Italy.
Alvin is a PhD student in Psychology, advised by Prof Michael C. Frank. He is interested in the role of environmental input on language learning, as well as comparisons between language learning processes in children and machine learning models. Alvin received a BA in Psychology and Linguistics from the University of Oxford, and an MS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.
Ivan Soltesz received his doctorate in Budapest and conducted postdoctoral research at universities at Oxford, London, Stanford and Dallas. He established his laboratory at the University of California, Irvine, in 1995. He became full Professor in 2003, and served as department Chair from 2006 to July 2015. He returned to Stanford in 2015 as the James R. Doty Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Soh received his B.S. with a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science with Distinction from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. From 1999 to 2003, Dr. Soh served as the technical manager of MEMS Device Research Group at Bell Laboratories and Agere Systems. He was a faculty member at UCSB before joining Stanford in 2015. His current research interests are in analytical biotechnology, especially in high-throughput screening, directed evolution, and integrated biosensors.
Krishna V. Shenoy, PhD, is the Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor of Engineering. He is with the Departments of Electrical Engineering (EE) and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering (BioE), Neurobiology and Neurosurgery in the Schools of Engineering (SOE) and Medicine (SOM) at Stanford University. He is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator. Prof.
Ada received her Ph.D. degree from the EECS department at the University of California at Berkeley in 2004. Her dissertation attempted to connect information theory with electromagnetic theory so as to better understand the fundamental limit of wireless channels. Upon graduation, she spent one year at Intel as a senior research scientist building reconfigurable baseband processors for flexible radios. Afterwards, she joined her advisor’s startup company, SiBeam Inc., architecting Gigabit wireless transceivers leveraging 60 GHz CMOS and MIMO antenna systems.
I grew up in a small town in Texas and attended Baylor University. After completing my PhD in experimental psychology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, I spent four years as a postdoc at Stanford. I have held faculty positions at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, UCLA, and the University of Texas. I joined the Stanford faculty in 2014.