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  • Jody Maxmin

    Jody Maxmin

    Associate Professor of Art and Art History and of Classics

    BioProf. Maxmin's research includes Greek painting and sculpture, archaic Greek Art, the Art and Culture of 5th century Athens, classical influence on later art, athletics in ancient Greece.

  • Michaëlle Ntala Mayalu

    Michaëlle Ntala Mayalu

    Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

    BioDr. Michaëlle N. Mayalu is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. She received her Ph.D., M.S., and B.S., degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department. She was a 2017 California Alliance Postdoctoral Fellowship Program recipient and a 2019 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Enrichment Program award recipient. She is also a 2023 Hypothesis Fund Grantee.

    Dr. Michaëlle N. Mayalu's area of expertise is in mathematical modeling and control theory of synthetic biological and biomedical systems. She is interested in the development of control theoretic tools for understanding, controlling, and predicting biological function at the molecular, cellular, and organismal levels to optimize therapeutic intervention.

    She is the director of the Mayalu Lab whose research objective is to investigate how to optimize biomedical therapeutic designs using theoretical and computational approaches coupled with experiments. Initial project concepts include: i) theoretical and experimental design of bacterial "microrobots" for preemptive and targeted therapeutic intervention, ii) system-level multi-scale modeling of gut associated skin disorders for virtual evaluation and optimization of therapy, iii) theoretical and experimental design of "microrobotic" swarms of engineered bacteria with sophisticated centralized and decentralized control schemes to explore possible mechanisms of pattern formation. The experimental projects in the Mayalu Lab utilize established techniques borrowed from the field of synthetic biology to develop synthetic genetic circuits in E. coli to make bacterial "microrobots". Ultimately the Mayalu Lab aims to develop accurate and efficient modeling frameworks that incorporate computation, dynamical systems, and control theory that will become more widespread and impactful in the design of electro-mechanical and biological therapeutic machines.

  • Yoni Mayeri

    Yoni Mayeri

    Spring CSP Instructor

    BioYoni Mayeri is a photographer, iPhoneographer, and presenter. She began her photographic career working for Minolta, Polaroid and Nikon,and later had photography studios in San Francisco and Berkeley. An early adopter of the iPhone and technology, her mobile photography focuses on landscape, atmosphere, botanicals and experimental imagery.

    Yoni’s work has been published in numerous publications. She has exhibited her iPhoneography at the de Young Museum, 111 Minna Gallery, Kennedy Gallery, Cambridge, Subterranean Art House, The UC Theatre Gallery, The San Francisco International Art Festival, The San Francisco Arts Commission, Markham Winery Gallery, The Jerry Adams Gallery, The Fillmore, The PunchLine Comedy Nightclubs, Pacific Felt Factory, In Space Gallery, and The Durden and Ray Gallery.

    Yoni’s popular iPhoneography workshops are regularly presented at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Stanford Research Park, and Rancho La Puerta. Yoni has lectured on mobile photography at Google, The Computer History Museum, JFK University, St. Mary’s College, The Nueva School, The Pacific Art League, The Garden Club of America, and to numerous corporate groups, schools, and private clients.

  • David Mazieres

    David Mazieres

    Professor of Computer Science

    BioMazieres investigates ways to improve the security of operating systems, file systems, and distributed systems. In addition, he has worked on large-scale peer-to-peer systems and e-mail privacy.

  • Alix Mazuet

    Alix Mazuet

    Advanced Lecturer

    BioAlix Mazuet specializes in French cultural history of the long nineteenth century, with a second area of expertise in Sub-Saharan postcolonial literatures and cultures. She is also an ACTFL certified rater of speaking and writing French as a Foreign Language.

    Alix relocated in California after having taught French and Francophone Studies as Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Central Oklahoma. She now teaches French as a Foreign Language, French cultural history, and Francophone cultures at Stanford University, Language Center.

  • Douglas McAdam

    Douglas McAdam

    Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor, Emeritus

    BioDoug McAdam is The Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and the former Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is the author or co-author of 18 books and some 85 other publications in the area of political sociology, with a special emphasis on race in the U.S., American politics, and the study of social movements and “contentious politics.” Among his best known works are Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970, a new edition of which was published in 1999 (University of Chicago Press), Freedom Summer (1988, Oxford University Press), which was awarded the 1990 C. Wright Mills Award as well as being a finalist for the American Sociological Association’s best book prize for 1991 and Dynamics of Contention (2001, Cambridge University Press) with Sid Tarrow and Charles Tilly. He is also the author of the 2012 book, A Theory of Fields (Oxford University Press), with Neil Fligstein and a book due out this summer on the historical origins of the deep political and economic divisions that characterize the contemporary U.S. The book, from Oxford University Press, is entitled: The Origins of Our Fractured Society: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America (with Karina Kloos). He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.

  • Harley H McAdams

    Harley H McAdams

    Professor (Research) of Developmental Biology, Emeritus

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsExperimental and theoretical analysis and modeling of genetic regulatory circuits, particularly bacterial regulation and with emphasis on global regulation of Caulobacter crescentus. Bioinformatic analysis of bacterial genomes, global patterns of gene transcription and translation.

  • Tim McAdams, MD

    Tim McAdams, MD

    Clinical Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCurrent studies include sports injuries in the NFL Athlete, evaluation of the graft types in the ACL injured knee, throwing athlete's shoulder, reconstruction techniques for elbow MCL injury, articular cartilage defects in the athlete's knee.

  • Katherine Rachel McCallie

    Katherine Rachel McCallie

    Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Neonatology

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsLeveraging electronic health record (Epic) for improvement in NICU outcomes
    Quality improvement in the NICU
    Nutrition & growth in premature infants

  • Perry L. McCarty

    Perry L. McCarty

    Affiliate, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

    BioPerry L. McCarty, Silas H. Palmer Professor Emeritus, came to Stanford University in 1962 to found a new multidisciplinary education and research program in environmental engineering and science that became a model for others throughout the country. From 1980 to 1985 he was Chairman of Stanford's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and from 1989 to 2002 he served as Director of the Western Region Hazardous Substance Research Center. He received a B.S. Degree in civil engineering from Wayne State University (1953), and M.S. (1957) and Sc.D. (1959) degrees in sanitary engineering from M.I.T.

    The focus of McCarty's research, teaching, and writing has been on water, with a primary interest in biological processes for the control of environmental contamination. His early research was on anaerobic treatment processes, biological processes for nitrogen removal and water reuse. Recent interests are on aerobic and anaerobic processes for the treatment of domestic and industrial wastewaters, and the movement, fate, and control of groundwater contaminants.

    His numerous awards and accolades for pioneering work on improving water quality worldwide includes memberships in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. McCarty won the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1992, the Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Water Science and Technology in 1997, and the Stockholm Water Prize in 2007. In 2011 the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Foundation established the Perry L. McCarty AEESP Founder's Award, given annually in recognition of McCarty's significant contributions to environmental engineering education, research, and practice. The Directorship of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, part of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, was named in his honor.

    McCarty has written and coauthored over 350 papers, plus the textbooks, Chemistry for Environmental Engineering and Science, and Environmental Biotechnology - Principles and Applications.

  • Cary McClelland

    Cary McClelland

    Lecturer

    BioCary McClelland is a civil rights lawyer and award-winning writer and filmmaker who brings to
    his teaching a global experience of conflict resolution and a personal understanding of the role
    of storytelling in dispute resolution.

    As an attorney, Cary has worked primarily in defense of the freedom of expression and other
    civil rights, advancing prominent cases related to election misinformation, digital privacy rights,
    and disparities arising from Covid-19. He defended journalists and artists in various First
    Amendment suits, including Buzzfeed’s publication of the Christopher Steele dossier. He
    represented clients who fought to protect the private information of online users from
    government seizure and challenged the Trump administration’s travel ban against Muslim-
    majority countries. Most recently, he led a team of lawyers representing New York individuals
    and organizations who fought on behalf of communities disproportionately impacted by the
    Covid-19 in their action against the federal health agencies for their statutory failures during
    the pandemic.

    Prior to the law, Cary spent the first part of his career working on human rights and conflict
    resolution initiatives throughout the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. He trained
    former child soldiers to be journalists in the Democratic Republic of Congo, worked alongside
    opposition activists in Zimbabwe, and collaborated on advocacy campaigns in Egypt, Syria, and
    Myanmar. He has a particular interest in traditional and restorative conflict transformation
    processes, and so has studied and supported the United Nations truth commission in East
    Timor and tribal courts in sub-Saharan Africa. Working with Witness and Google, he founded
    and launched a Webby-Award-winning media channel highlighting and protecting the work of
    citizen journalists around the world.

    Alongside these efforts, Cary has continued to document and bring to life stories of people
    persisting in turbulent times. His award-winning film, Without Shepherds, centers the lives of
    six people fighting against extremism in Pakistan, including the nation’s current Prime Minister
    Imran Khan as he launched his political party. Cary’s recent book Silicon City tells the story of
    San Francisco transformed by the tech industry and the new American economy through
    portraits of its citizens, past and present; it was chosen as one of Stanford University’s Three
    Books of 2019. Currently, he is completing a book on New York City’s experience of the Covid-
    19 pandemic and advancing another on grassroots populism in West Virginia.

    His research focuses on the role of narrative and data in rights advocacy, structural reform, and
    conflict resolution efforts throughout the United States and beyond. He is a frequently invited
    speaker on topics of media, technology, democracy, rule of law and storytelling.

  • Jay McClelland

    Jay McClelland

    Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Professor of Psychology and, by courtesy, of Linguistics and of Computer Science

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research addresses topics in perception and decision making; learning and memory; language and reading; semantic cognition; and cognitive development. I view cognition as emerging from distributed processing activity of neural populations, with learning occurring through the adaptation of connections among neurons. A new focus of research in the laboratory is mathematical cognition and reasoning in humans and contemporary AI systems based on neural networks.

  • Emily Clair McClung, MD, FACOG

    Emily Clair McClung, MD, FACOG

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology - Gynecologic Oncology

    BioDr. McClung is a fellowship trained, board certified Gynecologic Oncologist with the Stanford Medicine Cancer Center and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Stanford Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology.

    She graduated from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City and she completed residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford Medicine. She then pursued sub-specialty Gynecologic Oncology fellowship at Moffitt Cancer Center and the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.

    Prior to joining Stanford Health Care, Dr. McClung was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Arizona Banner University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona.

    Dr. McClung actively contributes to gynecologic cancer research. She has studied prevention of surgical site infections, gene expression prediction of lymph node metastasis in endometrial cancer, treatment resistance in ovarian cancer, and additional topics. She co-authored articles on her findings for peer-reviewed publications such as the International Journal of Gynecologic Cancer, International Journal of Women’s Health, and Gynecologic Oncology Reports.

    She authored the chapter on the diagnosis and management of vaginal cancer in the textbook Handbook of Gynecology and has made invited presentations at meetings of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology and other associations. She works to improve patient access to state-of-the-art care as an investigator in cooperative group clinical trials.

    She has won multiple teaching awards for her work with medical students and residents. She is passionate about increasing awareness of gynecologic cancer in medical trainees.

    Dr. McClung provides comprehensive care with a personalized approach for patients with gynecologic cancer and pre-cancer including surgery, chemotherapy, cancer risk reduction, and palliative care. She has a strong clinical interest in patient safety and quality of life both during and after cancer treatment.

  • David Thomas McColl

    David Thomas McColl

    Adjunct Professor

    BioDavid McColl is the Executive Director of Stanford Climate Ventures. He received a B.S. in Management Science & Engineering and an M.S. in Energy Resources Engineering from Stanford University. He is an Adjunct Professor in Energy Resources Engineering, a research fellow at the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy & Finance, and a partner at Echelon.

  • Michael V. McConnell, MD, MSEE

    Michael V. McConnell, MD, MSEE

    Clinical Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy imaging research has involved clinical and molecular Imaging of cardiovascular disease, with a focus on coronary and vascular diseases, including atherosclerosis, aortic aneurysms, and vascular inflammation.

    My prevention research has involved innovative technologies to reduce coronary and vascular disease, including early disease detection plus leveraging mobile health and AI to enhance heart heart in patients and populations.

  • Susan K. McConnell

    Susan K. McConnell

    Susan B. Ford Professor, Emerita

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSusan McConnell has studied the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the development of the mammalian cerebral cortex. Her work focused on the earliest events that pattern the developing forebrain, enable neural progenitors to divide asymmetrically to generate young neurons, propel the migration of postmitotic neurons outward into their final positions, and sculpt the fates and phenotypes of the neurons as they differentiate.

  • Raymond McDermott

    Raymond McDermott

    Professor of Education, Emeritus

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInteraction analysis and social structure; the political economy of learning; writing systems; educational and psychological anthropology.

  • Mary McDevitt

    Mary McDevitt

    Lecturer

    BioDirector of the Technical Communication Program in the School of Engineering.

    Completed PhD in English (medieval literature) at Stanford in 1993.

  • Jamie McDonald, MD, MS

    Jamie McDonald, MD, MS

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Adult Neurology

    BioDr. McDonald is a fellowship-trained, board-certified neurologist and clinical assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

    She specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases, including neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody disease (MOGAD). Dr. McDonald also provides comprehensive care to general neurology patients.

    Dr. McDonald completed her internship and adult neurology residency at the University of Utah. She has a long-standing interest in multiple sclerosis care and went on to complete a two-year clinical MS/neuroimmunology fellowship at Stanford Health Care Multiple Sclerosis Center. Dr. McDonald received the National MS Society’s Sylvia Lawry Physician Fellowship, including formalized training in conducting clinical trials. As part of her fellowship, she completed a master’s degree in epidemiology and clinical research.

  • Erika McEntarfer

    Erika McEntarfer

    Research Scholar and Distinguished Policy Fellow

    BioErika most recently served as Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2024 to 2025, and as Senior Economist on the Council of Economic Advisors from 2023 to 2024. In total, she has spent over two decades in nonpolitical roles across the federal government.

    Her public service work has focused on developing new economic insights by linking government data in novel ways, and the creation of new labor market statistics. Her research on labor market dynamics has been published in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Bard College and a Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Tech.

  • Daniel McFarland

    Daniel McFarland

    Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of Sociology and of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe majority of my current research projects concern the sociology of science and research innovation. Here are some examples of projects we are pursuing:
    1. the process of intellectual jurisdiction across fields and disciplines
    2. the process of knowledge innovation and diffusion in science
    3. the propagators of scientific careers and advance
    4. the role of identity and diversity on the process of knowledge diffusion and career advance
    5. the process of research translation across scientific fields and into practice
    6. the formal properties and mechanisms of ideational change (network analysis, or holistic conceptions of scientific propositions and ideas)
    7. developing methods for identifying the rediscovery of old ideas recast anew
    8. investigating the process of scientific review

    I am also heavily involved in research on social networks and social network theory development. Some of my work concerns relational dynamics and cognitive networks as represented in communication. This often concerns the communication of children (in their writings and speech in classrooms) and academic scholars.

    Last, I am heavily involved in institutional efforts to develop computational social science, computational sociology, and education data science on Stanford's campus.