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Ziwei Wang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Radiation Therapy
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy current work focuses on establishing preclinical platforms to rapidly validate the functional impact of genetic alterations in tumors using both cell and genetically engineered mouse models. We hope this system can accelerate the discovery and translation of novel cancer therapies to patients.
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Zoey Wang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSleep disruptions in neurodegenerative disorders
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Chisondi S. Warioba, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioChisondi S. Warioba, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Division of Pain Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, working in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine with Dr. Sean Mackey and Dr. Kenneth Weber. His research develops machine learning and deep learning approaches for high-dimensional medical data, with an emphasis on cross-species translational neuroscience, resting-state fMRI, and multimodal MRI analysis (NODDI, DKI, and advanced diffusion techniques) to identify brain biomarkers of chronic pain.
He earned his PhD in Medical Physics from the University of Chicago, where his dissertation focused on cross-species mapping of functional connectivity alterations and therapeutic responses in hyperacute ischemic stroke. He completed a triple-major bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology at Westmont College.
Dr. Warioba is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and was awarded an Academic Visitor position at the University of Oxford's Department of Clinical Neurosciences. He received the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award from the Mathematical Association of America for expository excellence. He is committed to mentorship and community engagement, including STEM outreach for underrepresented students and neuroscience public education. -
Annika M. Weber
Postdoctoral Scholar, Gastroenterology
BioAnnika is a postdoctoral scholar in the Spencer Lab studying how gut microbes metabolize prebiotic fibers to produce bioactive metabolites linked to lowering disease risk. She holds an MS in Human Nutrition from the University of Sheffield and a PhD in Food Science and Human Nutrition from Colorado State University. Her work integrates multi-omic approaches to map diet-microbe-metabolite relationships. Annika aims to translate these mechanistic insights into microbiome-informed dietary strategies for reducing chronic diseases.
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Ruolun Wei
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurosurgery
BioRuolun Wei, MD, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University. Dr. Wei’s work centers on neuro-oncology, with particular emphasis on brain tumor recurrence, treatment resistance, and tumor metabolism. He is also a board-certified neurosurgeon, currently focusing on full-time research. His research aims to bridge the gap between clinical practice and laboratory investigation, conducting translational research that moves from bedside to bench and back to bedside to improve therapeutic outcomes for patients with malignant brain tumors.
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Alexis Thomas Weiner
Basic Life Research Scientist, Pathology Sponsored Projects
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe planar cell polarity (PCP) signaling pathway polarizes animal cells along an axis parallel to the tissue plane, and in so doing generates long-range organization that can span entire tissues. Although its core proteins and much about their interactions are known, how PCP signaling occurs at a mechanistic level remains fundamentally mysterious. In my current project I will employ novel genetic methods to dissect the logic underlying how cellular asymmetry arises at a molecular level.
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Alexandre Raphael Wery
Postdoctoral Scholar, Hematology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAML. Measurable residual disease. Circulating tumor DNA. CAPP-Seq.
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Philipp Wesp
Postdoctoral Scholar, Radiology
BioI am a postdoctoral researcher investigating interpretable machine learning (ML) and large language model (LLM) applications in clinical radiology. My current research focuses on two complementary areas: understanding what human-interpretable concepts self-supervised vision foundation models learn through mechanistic interpretability techniques like sparse autoencoders, and developing LLM-based systems, including agentic workflows and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) architectures, that leverage unstructured hospital data to improve radiological workflows. I earned my PhD from LMU Munich, where I focused on clinically motivated machine learning applications in medical imaging in the Department of Radiology.
My work is partially funded by a Walter Benjamin Fellowship from the DFG (German Research Foundation). -
McKenzie White
Postdoctoral Scholar, Radiology
BioI work at the intersection of machine learning, medical imaging, and biomechanics. I'm committed to developing tools that bridge gaps between computational methods, musculoskeletal research, and clinical care - enabling more precise analyses, efficient workflows, and improved surgical decision-making.
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Shannon White
Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetics
BioHi, I'm Shannon White. I began my postdoctoral fellowship in Michael Snyder's lab in the fall of 2020. I received my PhD from Georgetown University in Tumor Biology in Chunling Yi's lab. My graduate worked explore the signaling and metabolic vulnerabilities of NF2-mutant tumors following YAP/TAZ depletion. My postdoctoral work is exploring the epigenetic hallmarks that contribute to colon cancer progression and drug resistance. I am developing colon organoids derived from pre-cancerous polyp tissue collected from Familial Adenomatous Polyposis patients as a model system to investigate epigenetic and signaling responses to chemoprevention treatments.
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Wesley Williams
Postdoctoral Scholar, Radiology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsFirstly, a goal of mine is to fashion a novel scatter-based parameter for PET reconstruction algorithms to improve image resolution via determining a more detailed scatter/true ratio estimate via binning the photons that have scattered once, twice, and perhaps, many more times.
Secondly, AI drug discovery application towards radiotracers may quicken experimentation by determining the formulations worth trying. Moreover, it may be able to characterize efficacy (biodistribution) (self-update). -
Willemijn Witkam
Postdoctoral Scholar, Dermatology
BioI am a dedicated medical doctor from The Netherlands with a passion for research specializing in dermatology. My expertise spans epidemiology, exposome, microbiome, and genetics. During my postdoc at Stanford, I will study the associations of harmful environmental exposures (air pollutants, microplastics) on (inflammatory) dermatological diseases in the lab of Dr. Eleni Linos.
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Emily Woods
Postdoctoral Scholar, Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly Interestsdevelopment of activity-based probes for specific diagnosis and treatment of Staphylococcus aureus infections and for detection of bacterial ear infections (otitis media)
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Mulate Zerihun Workeneh
Postdoctoral Scholar, Critical Care
BioDr. Mulate Zerihun Workeneh is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Dr. Bereketeab Haileselassie’s laboratory in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. He earned a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, where he developed peptide therapeutics that target mitochondrial protein-protein interactions involved in cardiovascular disease. Dr. Workeneh’s research uses medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, peptide engineering, computational modeling and mitochondrial biology to understand how the disease occurs and to develop new ways to treat it. During his doctoral training, he designed and evaluated novel linear and macrocyclic peptide inhibitors that alter mitochondrial dynamics to mitigate mitochondrial dysfunction and cardiovascular injury. His work at Stanford is focused on defining the role of mitochondrial dynamics in endothelial dysfunction in sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS). He is working to develop peptide-based therapeutics that maintain mitochondrial function, improve vascular health and prevent organ failure in critically ill patients by integrating approaches in chemical biology, molecular and cellular biology, and translational drug discovery. Dr. Workeneh has publications in leading medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, and mitochondrial biology journals and is an inventor on patents related to mitochondrial protein-protein interaction inhibitors. His goal is to translate advances in mitochondrial biology into first-in-class therapeutics for cardiovascular disease, sepsis, and other disorders linked to mitochondrial dysfunction. He is excited to work across disciplines at Stanford to help push biomedical research forward.
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Caren Yu-Ju Wu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurosurgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsBasic, translational, immunological and clinical research
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Yingcheng Wu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Pathology
BioYingcheng (Charles) Wu is an AI4S postdoc advised by Le Cong and Mengdi Wang, focusing on physical AI scientists, biomedical world models, and autonomous science infra. His work combines embodied AI, world model, and agents to build self-driving laboratories. He has published studies in **Cell**, **Science**, **Nature**, and received honors including the ICIS Sidney & Joan Pestka Award, the IUBMB Young Scientist Fellowship, the APASL Young Investigator Award, World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford, WAIC Rising Star Award.
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Yue Wu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI built computational methods to integrate and model biological time series, including metabolic dynamics, longitudinal multi-omics data, and micro-sampling. I reduce dimensions, built clusters, and search for causal links.
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Ziyan Wu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
BioZiyan’s PhD research centers around contaminant sensing in the environment using Raman spectroscopy, membrane sensors, and machine learning. At Stanford, Ziyan will continue her research on investigating the health impacts of emerging contaminants.
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Jinxi Xiang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Radiation Physics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI develop machine leanring methods to autonomate the digital pathology.
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Yuyin Xiao
Postdoctoral Scholar, Economics
BioYuyin Xiao is the postdoctoral researcher of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. She received her MS and PhD from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Her research focuses almost exclusively on low- and middle-income countries and is concerned with: health policy, including health equity, supply, demand and utilization of health service programs, and research on health service systems; health technology and innovation, including digital health, development of digital health tools, and evaluation of the effectiveness of digital interventions. Yuyin’s papers have been published in leading academic journals, including British Medical Journal, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, BMC Public Health and others.
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Zhen Xiao
Postdoctoral Scholar, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsApplying magnetic nanomaterials for bioimaging and cancer treatment
