School of Humanities and Sciences
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Charles Titus
Ph.D. Student in Physics, admitted Autumn 2014
BioI am a graduate student in the Department of Physics at Stanford University. As part of the research group of Dr. Kent Irwin, I focus on the application of superconducting detectors to X-ray spectroscopy.
Working at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), I operate a 240 pixel transition-edge sensor (TES) array in support of a diverse user program at beamline 10-1. TES devices have emerged in the soft X-ray regime as moderate-resolution, high-throughput spectrometers that are particularly suited to measure dilute and damage-sensitive samples. My role as an instrumentation scientist has focused on fast data processing, instrument calibration, and ease-of-use for users.
My research into spectroscopy focuses on using partial-fluorescence-yield X-ray absorption spectroscopy to probe electronic structure in transition-metal complexes. Transition metals play a critical role in proteins such as hemoglobin and photosystem-II, catalysts, and batteries. In all of these systems, metals have a powerful ability to change oxidation states, store energy, and shuttle electrons around. X-ray spectroscopy allows us to directly probe the properties of transition metals that make them so useful for chemistry and biology. -
CHUN-HAO TO
Ph.D. Student in Physics, admitted Autumn 2016
BioMy official webpage is at <a href="chunhaoto.com">chunhaoto.com</a>
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Hannah Wayment-Steele
Ph.D. Student in Chemistry, admitted Autumn 2016
BioI use methods from statistical inference and physics to improve RNA structure prediction methods, with the goal of someday making complex RNA machines like in vivo neural nets a reality.
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Katherine Whatley
Ph.D. Student in Japanese, admitted Autumn 2019
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on how gender informs music and literature in premodern Japan. Through studying the koto—Japanese transverse harp—and Japanese pre-modern music more generally, I examine the intersection of gender and music in the Heian period, and the transcultural interactions between Japan and East Asia during the pre-modern era.
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Ruohan Zhan
Ph.D. Student in Computational and Mathematical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2017
Masters Student in Statistics, admitted Spring 2020BioHi, I'm a second year PhD student in Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University.
I'm mainly interested in theories and application of learning on data-related problems. Luckily, I have great research experiences with many marvelous researchers on data analysis, financial modeling and mathematical imaging. I'm also excited about discovering new interesting fields! -
Jinxiao Zhang
Ph.D. Student in Psychology, admitted Autumn 2018
BioJinxiao is a graduate student in the Psychology Department. His research interest generally lies in how the "emotion system" and the "cognition system" interplay with each other. Specifically, he is interested in how cognitive control can modulate emotion processes as well as how emotion can affect cognitive processes. He is also interested in how the emotion-cognition interaction relates to psychological health. He uses neuroimaging, physiological, eye-tracking, and behavioral methods to investigate these research questions. In his recent work, he studies how sleep influences emotion regulation and other emotional processes. He is a big fan of interdisciplinary research (psychological, biochemical, and computational) and open science practice.
