School of Humanities and Sciences
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Dustin Liang
Associate Director, Web and Operations, H&S Dean's Office
Current Role at StanfordDustin serves as an IT Project Manager working on everything from school-wide initiatives to department focused projects. His current focus includes: Community Academic Profiles (CAP), computer security, and consolidating applications servers across H&S. Dustin works closely with departments and programs in the school to ensue university initiatives align with department goals. Prior to coming to Stanford, Dustin worked in the defense sector where he was responsible for financial and project management of government programs.
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Percy Liang
Associate Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, of Statistics
BioFields: machine learning, natural language processing.
Topics: unsupervised learning, structured prediction, statistical learning theory, grounded language acquisition, compositional semantics, program induction.
Learning semantics: Natural language allows us to express complex ideas using a few words, but the actual semantics are rarely directly observed. We therefore model the expressive semantics of language as programs whose execution produces observed data, and develop algorithms to learn these programs from indirect supervision. -
Xing Liang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMechanism of MT polarity establishment during PVD neuron dendrite outgrowing in C. elegans.
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Hsiao-Wen Liao
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy program of research aims to answer two broad questions: What factors contribute to long and meaningful lives? How do individual life experiences, particularly those that are personally significant and challenging, shape the pursuit of meaning across adulthood in diverse contexts? I address these questions from a functional approach to autobiographical memory. Specifically, my work has focused on (1) emotional memories, meaning-making and adult well-being, (2) developmental changes in motivation and its relation to autobiographical remembering, and (3) sociocultural factors that shape the remembering. My most recent research explores potential cognitive costs associated with the pursuit of meaning in diverse aging groups.
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Andrei Linde
Harald Trap Friis Professor
BioWhat is the origin and the global structure of the universe?
For a long time, scientists believed that our universe was born in the big bang, as an expanding ball of fire. This scenario dramatically changed during the last 35 years. Now we think that initially the universe was rapidly inflating, being in an unstable energetic vacuum-like state. It became hot only later, when this vacuum-like state decayed. Quantum fluctuations produced during inflation are responsible for galaxy formation. In some places, these quantum fluctuations are so large that they can produce new rapidly expanding parts of the universe. This process makes the universe immortal and transforms it into a multiverse, a huge fractal consisting of many exponentially large parts with different laws of low-energy physics operating in each of them.
Professor Linde is one of the authors of inflationary theory and of the theory of an eternal inflationary multiverse. His work emphasizes the cosmological implications of string theory and supergravity.
Current areas of focus:
- Construction of realistic models of inflation based on supergravity and string theory
- Investigation of conceptual issues related to the theory of inflationary multiverse -
Phillip Y. Lipscy
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInternational and comparative political economy; international security; Japanese politics; US-Japan relations; regional cooperation in East and South East Asia.
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Joseph (Joe) Lipsick
Professor of Pathology, of Genetics and, by courtesy, of Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsFunction and evolution of the Myb oncogene family; function and evolution of E2F transcriptional regulators and RB tumor suppressors; epigenetic regulation of chromatin and chromosomes; cancer genetics.
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Bowen Liu
Ph.D. Student in Chemistry, admitted Autumn 2015
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsComputational drug discovery
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Li Liu
Sir Robert Ho Tung Professor in Chinese Archeology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch interests:
Archaeology of early China (Neolithic and Bronze Age); ritual practice in ancient China; cultural interaction between China and other parts of the Old World; early domestication of plants and animals in China; theory of development of complex societies and state formation; settlement archaeology; urbanism; zooarchaeology; starch analysis; use-wear analysis; mortuary analysis; craft specialization
