School of Humanities and Sciences
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Yinyu Ye
Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the School of Engineering, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy current research interests include Continuous and Discrete Optimization, Algorithm Development and Analyses, Algorithmic Game/Market Theory and Mechanism-Design, Markov Decision Process and Reinforcement Learning, Dynamic/Online Optimization and Resource Allocation, and Stochastic and Robust Decision Making. These areas have been the unique and core disciplines of MS&E, and extended to new application areas in AI, Machine Learning, Data Science, and Business Analytics.
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Lee Yearley
Walter Y. Evans-Wentz Professor of Oriental Philosophies, Religions and Ethics
BioLee Yearley works in comparative religious ethics and poetics, focusing on materials from China and the West. He is the author of The Ideas of Newman: Christianity and Human Religiosity and Mencius and Aquinas: Theories of Virtue and Conceptions of Courage (recently translated into Chinese), as well as numerous journal articles and essays in edited volumes.
Professor Yearley holds a Ph.D. from University of Chicago. -
Jason Yeatman
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics), of Education and of Psychology
BioDr. Jason Yeatman is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Department of Psychology at Stanford University and the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Yeatman completed his PhD in Psychology at Stanford where he studied the neurobiology of literacy and developed new brain imaging methods for studying the relationship between brain plasticity and learning. After finishing his PhD, he took a faculty position at the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences before returning to Stanford.
As the director of the Brain Development and Education Lab, the overarching goal of his research is to understand the mechanisms that underlie the process of learning to read, how these mechanisms differ in children with dyslexia, and to design literacy intervention programs that are effective across the wide spectrum of learning differences. His lab employs a collection of structural and functional neuroimaging measurements to study how a child’s experience with reading instruction shapes the development of brain circuits that are specialized for this unique cognitive function. -
Sajung Yun, PhD, MBA
Visiting Scholar, Center for East Asian Studies
Affiliate, US-Asia Technology Management CenterBioDr. Sajung Yun is a multifaceted scholar and entrepreneur whose work bridges the disciplines of genomics, biomedical sciences, and artificial intelligence. At Stanford, his current research focuses on AI's self-recognition, self-protection, and self-perpetuation mechanisms and their implications in relation to Artificial General Intelligence and Super-Specialized Generalist Intelligence in medicine. He also serves as Adjunct Professor of Bioinformatics at Johns Hopkins University where he teaches bioinformatics courses over the last ten years.
Dr. Yun earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the John A. Burns School of Medicine and his MBA with concentrations in Healthcare Management and Entrepreneurship from Johns Hopkins University, blending rigorous scientific training with strategic leadership in medical innovation. He also attended M.D. program and completed 121 credits at John A. Burns School of Medicine. His academic appointments also include a concurrent role as Adjunct Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), where he continues to contribute to global collaborations in AI-driven bioinformatics and healthcare system optimization.
As the Founder and CEO of Predictive AI, Dr. Yun leads a digital health company specializing in AI-based personalized preventive medicine platforms. Under his leadership, the company has been recognized for excellence in innovation, receiving distinctions such as the 2023 and 2022 4th Industrial Revolution Awards in AI and Biohealth, and the 2024 Venture Business Association President’s Award at the 6th Korea SME & Startup Awards. In recognition of his contributions to global innovation and leadership, Dr. Yun was named a 2025 Forbes Global CEO Delegate. In 2026, he lead his company to win Honoree Award in CES.
Dr. Yun’s professional career began as a Research Fellow at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he investigated advanced gene editing and genetic surgical methods. His research portfolio spans topics including next-generation sequencing data analysis, MRI volumetric analysis, and AI applications in biomedical imaging. His numerous publications and work continues to contribute to the evolving landscape of digital healthcare, emphasizing the convergence of data science, clinical insight, and artificial intelligence for human health advancement. -
Jamil Zaki
Professor of Psychology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on the cognitive and neural bases of social behavior, and in particular on how people respond to each other's emotions (empathy), why they conform to each other (social influence), and why they choose to help each other (prosociality).
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Amy Zegart
Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Senior Fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, at Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, & Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsU.S. intelligence, cybersecurity, political risk, grand strategy
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Mayshu (Meixu) Zhan
Ph.D. Student in Modern Thought and Literature, admitted Autumn 2023
Ph.D. Minor, Communication
Ph.D. Minor, Computer ScienceCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsMy interdisciplinary research examines digital media through the lens of critical race, gender, and sexuality studies. I am primarily interested in investigating how we can leverage the power of media to reinvent and promote social equality. Specifically, my research focuses on digital games and their prosocial influence on 21st- century China.
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C Pam Zhang
Adjunct Professor
BioC Pam Zhang is the author of two novels, How Much of These Hills Is Gold and Land of Milk and Honey. She is the winner of the Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, the Asian/Pacific Award for Literature, and the California Book Award. Zhang is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, and the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, and the American Library in Paris. Her writing appears in Best American Short Stories, The Cut, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Her work has been translated into twelve languages.
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Yanhua Zheng
Lecturer
BioYanhua Zheng is a native Cantonese Speaker with more than 10 years of experience in education. She immigrated to the US in 2014 and received her combined B.A. and Masters in Chinese from San Francisco State University, one of the nations top-ranked Chinese language programs. She now lives in Palo Alto with her son and her husband. Yanhua is also an avid reader, writer, and artist.
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Xueguang Zhou
Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Economic Development and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInstitutional changes in contemporary Chinese society.
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Yiqun Zhou
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and, by courtesy, of Classics
BioResearch Areas:
- The Chinese family
- Comparative study of antiquity
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Dafna Zur
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature
BioDafna Zur is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. She teaches courses on Korean literature, cinema, and popular culture. Her book, Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea (Stanford University Press, 2017), traces the affective investments and coded aspirations made possible by children’s literature in colonial and postcolonial Korea. She is working on a new project on moral education in science and literary youth magazines in postwar North and South Korea. She has published articles on North Korean science fiction, the Korean War in North and South Korean children’s literature, childhood in cinema, and Korean popular culture. Her translations of Korean fiction have appeared in wordwithoutborders.org, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Short Stories, and the Asia Literary Review.
