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Aniaba M N'guessan
Casual - Non-Exempt, Economics
Staff, EconomicsBioAniaba N’guessan is a researcher, entrepreneur, and triple major in Economics, Mathematics, and Computer Science at Morehouse College. He conducts research under Professor B. Douglas Bernheim focusing on causal inference and AI-driven economic modeling, and previously completed a research fellowship at Emory University’s Systems Neural Engineering Lab, where he worked on brain-computer interface decoding.
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Ashkan Nazari
Ph.D. Student in Music, admitted Autumn 2023
Iranian Studies - Iran Media Projects, Iranian StudiesBioAshkan Nazari
M.A. Ethnomusicology, Tehran University of Art, Tehran
B.A., Music, University of Tehran, Tehran
A Kurdish-Iranian musician and researcher, Ashkan is currently an ethnomusicology PhD student at Stanford. He holds a bachelor's degree in music from the University of Tehran and a master's in ethnomusicology from Tehran University of Art.
Ashkan's more than 15-year-long research career has centred upon Kurdish classical and folk musics as well as Iranian classical music. The core area he is pursuing at Stanford covers the intersections between music, on the one hand, and genocide, war, violence, intellectual movements, Islam and Kurdish identity, on the other. His interest also includes the development of ethnographic studies of the relationship existing between maqām as a cultural-musical concept, with ethnicity, racism and colonialism.
In his quest to explore those realms, Ashkan has already been prolific back home, with three titles: The Concept and Structure of Maqām in Kurdish Music, The Structure of Musical Modes in Hawrāmi Music, the Anthropological Aspects of Maqām Music of Iraqi Kurdistan, with the latter set to be released soon. Many of his numerous articles have additionally appeared across prestigious Iranian journals, others presented at international ethnomusicology conferences.
As the founder and conductor of the first-ever philharmonic orchestra in his Kurdish hometown of Paveh, Ashkan also taught Iranian music theory and Iranian ensembles, while instructing setār performance and analysis of Iranian classical music at the University of Kurdistan and the University of Art and Culture in Kermanshah and Sanandaj, respectively. -
Natasha Newson
Student Services Manager, Sociology
Current Role at StanfordStudent Services Manager, Department of Sociology
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Andrew Khoa Nguyen
Undergraduate, Computer Science
Teaching Aide - Ug, Economics
Undergraduate, EconomicsBioUndergraduate at Stanford University pursuing BA Economics, BS Mathematics and MS Computer Science with an interest in financial engineering and quantitative finance, specifically high frequency and/or algorithmic trading. Co-Founder and President of crowdfunding platform (Innovation Crowds) which helps startups find the right investors and collaborators who can help achieve the mission and form an army of innovators fueling growth. Founder and CEO of 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated towards improving the lives of orphans across the globe (Orphan Assistance Fund).
