School of Humanities and Sciences
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Francis Smith
Academic Staff - Hourly - CSL, Language Ctr
BioFrank Smith has studied Khmer language since 1987 and has been teaching it since 1990. He also teaches Khmer language at the University of California, Berkeley, since 2008.
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Dr. Preston Taylor Stone
Academic Prog Prof 1, Ctr for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE)
Associate Director of Native American Studies, Ctr for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE)Current Role at StanfordAssociate Director of Native American Studies
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David G Stork
Adjunct Professor, Symbolic Systems Program
BioDavid G. Stork teaches and performs research in several disciplines:
• Rigorous computer image analysis of fine art paintings and drawings
• Computational sensing and imaging with metasurface optical elements
• Applications of computer algebra
He is a graduate in Physics from MIT and the University of Maryland, and studied Art History at Wellesley College. He was Chief Scientist of the American arm of the $15B international Ricoh Company and Rambus Fellow at Rambus, Inc. He has held faculty positions in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Computation & Mathematical Engineering, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Art and Art History variously at Wellesley and Swarthmore Colleges, Clark, Boston, and Stanford Universities, and the Technical University of Vienna. He is a Fellow of IEEE, OSA, SPIE, IS&T, IAPR, IARIA, AAIA, IAII, and a Senior Life Member of ACM and was a 2023 Leonardo@Djerassi Fellow. He holds 64 US patents, and has published over 220 peer-reviewed scholarly articles and nine books/proceedings volumes, including "Pattern classification" (2nd ed.), "Seeing the light: Optics in nature, photography, color, vision, and holography," "HAL's Legacy: 2001's computer as dream and reality," and "Pixels & paintings: Foundations of computer-assisted connoisseurship." -
Eva Soos Szoke
Academic Staff, Language Ctr
Current Role at StanfordLecturer in Hungarian, Special Language Program
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Kedao Tong
Ph.D. Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2018
graduate student worker, Buddhist StudiesBioKedao Tong is a PhD candidate in Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religious Studies. His research focuses on the socio-cultural history of Chinese Buddhism and topics related to animals in the Chinese and the broader East Asian contexts. He is currently writing his dissertation, tentatively titled "Rescue the Buddha’s Animal Disciples: The Practice of Buddhist Animal Release in China," which explores the the history of animal release (fangsheng) in Chinese religions from the fifth to the early twentieth centuries.
Kedao received an MA in Chinese from Stanford University, where he wrote a thesis that studies the writing of women’s epitaphs from China’s Northern Dynasties (439-581 AD). Prior to coming to Stanford, he received an Honors BA in East Asian Studies from the University of Toronto. He has taken up coursework and language training in Hong Kong and Japan, and has a background in editorial work in academic and other settings.