Graduate School of Education
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Jon Ball
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2020
BioHi! I'm a 3rd year PhD Student in Education Data Science dedicated to improving information accessibility.
Recent projects include:
Natural Language Processing: language analytics for Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Graph ML: modeling citation networks of computer science publications (OJS/arXiv)
Social Network Analysis: clustering of philanthropic partnerships for the Jim Joseph Foundation (SF) -
Xavi Luis Burgos
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
Ph.D. Minor, Comparative Studies in Race and EthnicityCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsAfro-Caribbean religious traditions | visual and performance art | the sanctification of the body and space | martyrdom | political theory | embodied religious knowledges and material cultures | Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies | ancestor veneration and spirit possession | youth movements and popular educational projects | the politics of memory and pedagogies of remembrance | the logics of race
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Merve Cerit
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2020
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research aims to understand digital behaviors and their relationship with well-being through computational models and in-situ behavior change interventions. For my research, I have been working on a large-scale smartphone dataset, Screenome. I work closely with Nick Haber and Roy Pea from the School of Education and Nilam Ram and Byron Reeves from the Communication Department.
In my work, I mostly use machine learning and human-centered design principles. -
Tom Cheng
Masters Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2022
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in developing an application which provides immediate feedback to intermediate learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) who are interested in improving their speaking with the help of AI. This application will address several issues in learning and teaching, including but not limited to: importance of conversational practice and feedback in ESL learning; ESL learners' lack of support outside of classroom; lack of manpower; teachers' workload; and modeling and peer feedback.
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Sophie D'Souza
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2023
BioSophie D'Souza is a PhD student in Developmental and Psychological Sciences with a cross-area specialisation in Race, Inequality, and Language in Education.
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Jessica Drescher
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2018
Ph.D. Minor, SociologyBioJessica Drescher is a doctoral candidate in education policy at Stanford University and a Health Policy Research Scholar at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She received her M.Ed. in education policy and management at Harvard University and her B.A. in sociology at Colby College. Prior to Stanford, she spent several years working at Harvard’s Education Redesign Lab, where she focused on the role of city government in addressing the iron-law correlation between socioeconomic status and education outcomes.
Shaped by her experiences as an unaccompanied homeless youth and first-generation college student, Jessica researches education as a lever of social mobility and explores the potential of big data to inform social policy. Her current projects are focused on examining the relationship between ecological health factors and academic achievement, with a particular focus on the opioid crisis. -
Daniela Gamboa Zapatel
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
BioDaniela Gamboa is a PhD student in Educational Policy at Stanford's Graduate School of Education. Her previous experience as a teacher, as a government official, and as an advocate of civil society reinforced her commitment to the delivery of equitable, inclusive, and quality education for all learners. After serving in public schools and as a Teach for Peru fellow, Daniela led initiatives towards the strengthening of inclusive education systems in the Ministry of Education of Peru and the Peruvian Down Syndrome Society, collaborating on cross-country initiatives with members of the Regional Network for Inclusive Education (Latin America), Down Syndrome International, and Inclusion International. Before starting her PhD program, she worked as an equity and inclusion consultant at the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). She is interested in exploring the barriers to policies providing adequate support for teachers to serve diverse learners. Specifically, she aims to look into the way the different levels of the system interact and shape inclusive education practices.
Daniela holds a B.A. in Early Childhood Education with Honors from the University of Piura (Peru) and a M.A. in Education (International Education Policy Analysis) from Stanford University. -
Rubén A. González
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2020
Other Tech - Graduate, GSE Dean's Office
Other Tech - Graduate, Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP)BioRubén González, proudly from Greenfield, California, is a Ph.D. candidate in the Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE) program at Stanford University. His research interests focus on the sociopolitical disposition and action of teachers of color, and the use of critical pedagogy and Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) in classroom settings. He dedicates his work to improving the K-12 schooling experiences of Black, Indigenous, all students of color, and other marginalized youth. Rubén taught high school English, English Language Development, and AVID in Sacramento, California, for six years prior to pursuing his graduate studies. Rubén also worked with (im)migrant and multilingual Latinx youth as an academic tutor in classroom and after-school settings in Dixon, California, during his undergraduate studies. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in English at Sacramento State University after transferring from Hartnell College. At the statewide level, Rubén serves on the Education Trust–West’s (ETW) Educator Advisory Council (EAC). In local community settings, Rubén has organized with the Association of Raza Educators (ARE) Sacramento, and Ethnic Studies Now (ESN) Sacramento and Elk Grove.
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Hsiaolin Hsieh
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2018
Other Tech - Graduate, Ctr. Sup. Exc. in Teaching
SU Student - Summer, GSE Dean's OfficeBioHsiaolin Hsieh is a doctoral candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Her research is relevant to equity and fairness in education, especially for students classified as English learners (ELs). Formally trained in educational measurement and assessment, Ms. Hsieh has ample experience in the design, implementation, evaluation, and interpretation of tests in the K-12 context, and in large-scale data collection and analysis for projects examining upper elementary students’ literacy and reading comprehension. Her research draws on both qualitative approaches (e.g., interviews, think-aloud protocols, collaborative coding, classroom observations) and quantitative techniques (e.g., statistical modeling, and machine learning algorithms). Working in researcher-practitioner partnerships, she has examined students’ course pathways and classroom heterogeneity patterns in middle and high school and supported schools in improving their assessment, reclassification, and course designation practices to provide ELs with increased access to mathematics courses. Her work in multilingual classrooms is useful in examining how educational technology can be leveraged to assist student learning. Applying natural language processing and computational linguistics methods, she has analyzed complex student dialogic participation in the classrooms. Her findings speak to the importance of using student-student conversations in the classroom context to inform English proficiency classification decisions. She is the developer of LogoSearch, an online repository created to collect, archive, and evaluate student conversations, and the creator of visualizations intended to support educators in identifying effective ways of providing ELs with more equitable learning opportunities.
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Samin Khan
Masters Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2023
BioSamin Khan is an AI product-builder for higher education with a former life as an AI researcher and founder. Holding a background in computer science and cognitive science from the University of Toronto, Samin leveraged computational linguistics to predict mental health trends. This research was the foundation of his start-up, Autumn, which leveraged a privacy-first AI model to assist remote teams in averting burnout during the pandemic. Autumn was acquired by Qualtrics in 2023. Samin was also a founding engineer of smartARM, a company recognized globally for creating the world’s first AI-driven robotic prosthetic arm. This project won Microsoft’s flagship technology competition, Imagine Cup, in 2018. Today, Samin leads AI product and research development at ACUE, bringing AI to support training over 26,000 higher education instructors and professors with effective teaching practise credentials.
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Hannah Kober
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2019
BioHannah Z. Kober is a fifth year PhD Candidate in Educational Linguistics with a Concentration in Jewish Studies at Stanford Graduate School of Education. She is interested in the sociology of heritage language learning, with specific attention on the impact of language ideologies and attitudes on Hebrew teaching and learning in North America. Her dissertation (in-progress) focuses on how Israeli-American parents make decisions about Hebrew language learning for and with their children. Hannah has several forthcoming pieces about issues in heritage language learning and/or Jewish Education, including a collaborative work with scholars across language contexts. She was most recently the Managing Director of the Jewish English Lexicon (an initiative of the Jewish Languages Project) and previously the Program Associate responsible for the research division of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. Hannah is a Jim Joseph Fellow and a Wexner Graduate Fellow-Davidson Scholar.
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Leslie Patricia Luqueño
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2020
Other Tech - Graduate, SoM - Senior Associate Dean for Graduate and Postdoctoral Student EducationCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsMy current research lies at the intersection of higher education, immigration, and family studies, with an emphasis on how the children of Latinx immigrants make sense of their higher education trajectories and aspirations. I am particularly interested in the role of families within college choice decision-making and employ both qualitative and data science methods to investigate how familial values and knowledge is employed throughout the college application process for Latinx students.
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Crystal A. Moore
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2017
BioCrystal A. Moore is a doctoral candidate at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education in the program on sociology of education. Her dissertation advisors are Bryan Brown, David Labaree and Denise Pope. Crystal graduated cum laude in the undergraduate policy program of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where she was a Mellon Minority Undergraduate Research Fellow and received the Priscilla Glickman ’92 Award for Commitment to Community Service. She also has a master’s degree in elementary education from the University of Pennsylvania. Crystal’s research interests converge at the intersection of race, class, leadership and education, looking at the impact of leadership on student achievement. She employs mixed qualitative and quantitative methods and draws from theories related to organizational studies, social capital and stratification with an explicit interest in public education. Her research projects explore excellence in an outperforming district, educational inequality within a high-achieving district and the experiences of African American school leaders in an urban district.
Crystal’s scholarship is informed by two decades of experience in K-12 public education. She has a lifelong passion for developing racially diverse, high performing, urban public schools. For over ten years, she worked as a consultant on a number of school improvement projects, including community schools, independent school equity, new school design and diversity research. Her last full-time position was coaching principals for the DC State Superintendent of Education’s Learning Support Network, providing leadership coaching, technical assistance and professional development to four Priority school leaders. -
Tom Nachtigal
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2022
BioTom Nachtigal is a PhD student in the international and comparative education program. She's interested in researching how international organizations influence national civic education policies via promotion of social and emotional learning. Particularly, she's looking at how values of democracy, rule of law, human rights, and national identity are imbued in conflict-affected areas, in light of international education policies informed by SEL. Trained as an international lawyer, she served as a legal advisor in the Israeli government, practicing international law and human rights, an experience that informed her interests in civic education from the lens of international politics.
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Sarah Novicoff
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
Other Tech - Graduate, Loeb ProgramBioSarah Novicoff is a PhD student in Educational Policy at Stanford's Graduate School of Education. Previously, Sarah was a 6th grade Social Studies teacher in South Los Angeles. Sarah also served as Chair of the School Site Advisory Council, managing a team of teachers, school staff, and parents who reviewed and approved the school budget. In her doctoral education, she is interested in working on issues of equitable school finance and how changes to funding have affected vulnerable subgroups of K-12 students (e.g., low-income students, English Language Learners, students with disabilities, students in foster care). Prior to teaching, Sarah worked as a Research Assistant for the Brown University Department of Education in Providence, R.I., and as a Research Intern at the Brookings Institute Center on Education Policy in Washington, D.C. Sarah holds a B.A. in History with Honors from Brown University where she graduated magna cum laude.
