Dr. Lay Teng Ang earned her Ph.D. jointly from the University of Cambridge and A*STAR and was subsequently appointed as a Research Fellow and, later, a Senior Research Fellow at the Genome Institute of Singapore. She then moved her laboratory to Stanford University as a Siebel Investigator and Instructor at the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine. The Ang laboratory has been supported by the Siebel Investigatorship, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and other sources.
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sean Follmer
Talk Title: SwarmHaptics: Haptic Display with Swarm Robots
Event: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
Dr. Lawrence Fung is a child and adolescent psychiatrist with specialized clinical training in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and advanced research training in chemical engineering, neuropsychopharmacology, and neuroimaging. He has extensive work experience in pharmaceutical research and development, including the discovery and development of a GABA(A) receptor agonist for the treatment of insomnia and anxiety.
Awarded in 2019
Home Department: Immunology
Faculty Advisors: Aida Habtezion (Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology), Purvesh Khatri (Medicine - Biomedical Informatics and Biomedical Data Science) , and Paul (PJ) Utz (Medicine - Immunology and Rheumatology)
