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The brain is a fascinatingly complex and delicate system of biomolecules, cells, and dynamic interactions that must be carefully maintained to support human health. When this balance is disrupted, disease can arise. Neurodegenerative dementias including Alzheimer’s disease are highly prevalent and profoundly devastating, yet remain largely untreatable or incurable.
Dr. Meg Cychosz investigates how infants and children develop speech and language, including children with hearing differences and multilingual learners. Her research bridges linguistics, cognitive science, developmental psychology, and electrical engineering to understand fundamental questions about language acquisition. Her interdisciplinary approach combines fieldwork with computational methods, using deep learning and automatic speech recognition tools to analyze naturalistic speech recordings from children's daily lives.
Dr. Biafra Ahanonu, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine. He studies the neural coding and molecular mechanisms that generate specific pain percepts and behaviors via sensorimotor transformations and how the disease or therapies alter the peripheral and central nervous systems.
Plants are increasingly vulnerable to environmental stressors—such as pathogen infection, drought, and heat—from climate change. These challenges threaten global food security and limit the carbon sequestration potential of plants. Dr. Ellen Rim's research goal is to sustainably enhance plant productivity and resilience through protein engineering. The Rim lab engineers proteins involved in plant immune and hormone signaling pathways using directed evolution in high-throughput single cell systems.
Dr. Halleh Balch is an experimental physicist and Assistant Professor at Stanford whose research focuses at the intersection of physics, biotechnology, and oceanography.
Dr. Jonathan Liu is a biomedical engineer and professor in the department of pathology, where his laboratory develops high-resolution optical-imaging devices and computational-analysis strategies for guiding treatment decisions. In particular, Dr. Liu's lab is developing non-destructive slide-free 3D pathology methods for clinical decision support and surgical guidance.
Dr. Jason Sheltzer received a Ph.D. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include aneuploidy, genomic instability, mitotic kinases, molecular pharmacology, and genome engineering.
Dr. Natalie Larson's lab develops hybrid manufacturing methods (e.g., multimaterial 3D printing with subvoxel control) and applies in-situ characterization techniques (e.g., 4D X-ray computed tomography) to investigate new classes of hierarchical architected materials. The Lab aims to enable sustainable fabrication of multimaterial and composite systems with enhanced properties, including efficiency and multifunctionality, for applications in aerospace, transportation, soft robotics, and healthcare.
