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Simar Bajaj
MD Student, expected graduation Spring 2031
BioSimar Bajaj is a medical student and Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine with interests in internal medicine, health policy, and science journalism. He studied Global Health Science and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar and studied Chemistry and the History of Science at Harvard University, where he graduated summa cum laude.
His research focuses on stigmatized diseases like obesity, lung cancer, and substance use disorder with first-author work in The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine, British Medical Journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Annals of Surgery.
Simar is also an an award-winning journalist and, until recently, worked as a health and wellness reporter at the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/by/simar-bajaj). His writing has also appeared in NPR, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Washington Post, National Geographic, and more. He is currently working on a book about stigmatized diseases. -
Jon Ball
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2020
Ph.D. Minor, Computer ScienceBioHi! I'm a 3rd year PhD Student in Education Data Science dedicated to improving information accessibility.
Recent projects include:
Natural Language Processing: language analytics for Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Graph ML: modeling citation networks of computer science publications (OJS/arXiv)
Social Network Analysis: clustering of philanthropic partnerships for the Jim Joseph Foundation (SF)
