School of Humanities and Sciences
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Xuehao Ding
Ph.D. Student in Applied Physics, admitted Autumn 2018
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am an Applied Physics PhD candidate in Baccus lab co-advised by Surya Ganguli. My research focuses on building encoding models of the retina with various biophysical properties especially for natural scenes and answering scientific questions based on computational models. I believe that the core problem in the field of sensory systems is to understand the representation manifold and I am achieving this goal with methods of differential geometry, deep learning, statistical physics, etc.
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Tristram O'Brien Dodge
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2021
BioI'm a PhD student in the Schumer Lab, interested in adaptation, hybridization, genome structure, and conservation.
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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.
