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Susanna Gunamany
Postdoctoral Scholar, Urology
BioDr. Gunamany received her PhD in Public Health from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar. Before her doctoral studies, she earned a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), India, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Kerala.
Dr. Gunamany's scholarly pursuits revolve around the convergence of health and technology, with a specific emphasis on mobile health (mHealth) and its potential for improving healthcare delivery and access. Broadening her research scope, she is interested in health disparities and inequalities research, focusing on marginalized populations and the intricate interplay of social, economic, and environmental factors influencing health outcomes. -
Kevin Lesperance
Postdoctoral Scholar, Urology
BioDr. Kevin L’Esperance is a cancer epidemiologist who focuses on the interplay between adiposity, lifestyle, and social drivers of health in kidney and ovarian cancer risk, prevention, and survivorship. His work involves patients, clinicians, and population-level perspectives to improve health literacy, integrate lived experiences, and enhance cancer care and management. In parallel, Dr. L’Esperance is actively engaged in science communication, working to raise awareness about cancer and shift the narrative from fatalism to empowerment and actionable change.
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Daniel Massana Roquero
Postdoctoral Scholar, Urology
BioDaniel Massana Roquero is a postdoctoral scholar who earned his PhD in Chemistry from Clarkson University (NY, USA) on development and application of smart hydrogel for biomedical applications. This work contributed to shaping his current research in the department of Urology at Stanford University, where his efforts are focused on improving kidney stone surgery outcomes.
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Ashu Mohammad
Postdoctoral Scholar, Urology
BioRecieved his PhD in molecular biology from Shoolini University, India. He is trying to understand the implications of oxidative stress and circadian rhythms in IC/BPS and Nocturia repectively.
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Tanmoy Sarkar Pias
Postdoctoral Scholar, Urology
BioI am currently working on multimodal, multi-task foundation models to detect cancer and improve surgery. I am exploring image segmentation models, foundation models, and reinforcement learning with agents. My previous work spans a range of directions, including knowledge-guided machine learning models, systematic evaluation of high-risk models, mitigation of deficiencies and biases, automatic generation of gradient-based test cases, decision boundary estimation and analysis of deep learning models, and developing approaches to make machine learning models more fair and reliable.
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Alexandra LaPat Polasko
Postdoctoral Scholar, Urology
BioDr. Alexandra Polasko is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Urology in Dr. James Brooks's lab. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. from UCLA in Civil and Environmental Engineering in Dr. Shaily Mahendra's lab and bachelors from UC Berkeley. Before coming to Stanford, she was a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA in the School of Dentistry, Oral Biology Division under Dr. Hung Ton-That where she studied the role motility plays as a virulence factor in oral pathogens. Currently, Dr. Polasko's research focuses on elucidating the mechanisms that drive benign prostate hyperplasia, which is the abnormal growth of the prostate and affects nearly 80% of men over eighty and can result in impaired urine storage and voiding as well as renal failure. She is a co-inventor on two patents and received UCLA's prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants (2021).
