Stanford University
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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) -
Sujay Banerjee
Masters Student in Bioengineering, admitted Autumn 2025
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI develop deep learning models for genomic and molecular data to advance precision medicine. My work spans deep learning-based methods for structural variant detection in genome sequencing, diabetetes risk prediction, and protein–ligand binding affinities predicion. I’m broadly interested in how AI can accelerate drug discovery, uncover disease mechanisms, and improve individualized healthcare.
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Spencer Carlton Barnes
Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2022
Masters Student in Mechanical Engineering, admitted Spring 2024BioI am currently a Mechanical Engineering graduate student at Stanford University pursuing a PhD. At the university, I work as a research assistant in the high-temperature gas dynamics laboratory. My current work involves novel concepts in laser spectroscopy. I pride myself in being self-motivated, detail oriented, and a team player.
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David Barnstone
Ph.D. Student in Communication, admitted Autumn 2024
BioDavid Barnstone studies the dynamics of media use in families with young children. He is particularly interested in how parents form beliefs about media effects and child development. Prior to Stanford, David worked as a full-time science writer and media relations specialist for several scientific organizations, including the American Physical Society, Society for Neuroscience, and Springer Nature.
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Alexander Basaraba
Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources, admitted Autumn 2024
BioAlex Basaraba (he/him) is an interdisciplinary social scientist, practitioner, educator, and science-informed visual storyteller working at the interstice between people, the environment, and the climate. Building on an academic foundation in the social and natural sciences, he has more than 10 years of domestic and international experience in the climate adaptation field. His experience includes supporting communities domestically and internationally, as well as organizations and governments at different scales (federal, state, Tribal, city, and county) in preparing for and responding to the impacts of climate change, including: the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Shoshone-Paiute Tribes, the District of Columbia, among others. Basaraba is currently a PhD student at Stanford University in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) at the Doerr School of Sustainability. His current research is focused on transformative climate adaptation using community-engaged research methods. Beyond publishing dozens of white papers, policy reports, government plans, academic journal articles, and popular media articles, Basaraba has served as a contributing author, chapter graphic design lead, and review editor on the National Climate Assessments.
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Beth Bass
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2024
Research Assistant, GSE Centers and ProgramsBioBeth Bass is a doctoral student in Race, Inequality, and Language in Education at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. Beth is from Dallas, Texas, and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Human Rights, and Political Science from Southern Methodist University, as well as a Master’s in Sociology of Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Beth's work as a youth worker, track coach, and Black studies teacher informs their research on race, space, and histories of Black education.
Beth’s research focuses on Black parent activism, school choice, and history of Black education in Texas. Their work employs oral history methodology, critical race theory, and Black geographies to examine Black schooling contexts.
Beth’s scholarship is supported by the EDGE: Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Fellowship through the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education. -
David Timothy Bates
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2022
Master of Arts Student in Sociology, admitted Autumn 2025BioDavid T. Bates is currently a PhD candidate in the History of Education program at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. His research focuses on the institutional change of universities owing to the emergence of the human sciences from the Progressive Era to the Cold War. As part of this research agenda, his dissertation explores how computer science became an undergraduate major. Previously, he worked in civic education and taught in elementary schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Boston, Massachusetts. He has degrees from the University of Rochester, the University of Chicago, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Farah Bazzi
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2018
BioFarah Bazzi was born in Lebanon and raised in The Netherlands. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in early modern global history at Stanford University. Farah’s work attempts to bridge both Mediterranean and Atlantic history by focusing on how objects, people, and imaginations moved between the Ottoman world, Morocco, Iberia, and the Americas during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Furthermore, Farah’s research interests include environmental thought, race, indigeneity, cosmology, cartography, and technologies of conquest. In her dissertation, Farah looks at the expulsion of the moriscos and their presence in the Americas, Morocco, and the Ottoman Empire from a socio-environmental perspective. In addition to this, Farah is interested the construction of Al-Andalus as an aesthetically appealing, pursuable, and transplantable natural and racialized landscape in Spanish, Arabic, and Ottoman sources.
Currently, Farah is one of the project founders and managers of the ‘Life in Quarantine: Witnessing Global Pandemic’ project sponsored by CESTA, the History Department, and the Division of Languages and Cultures. She is also the graduate coordinator for the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) at Stanford and the Graduate Student Counselor (director) on the board of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA). -
Daniel E. Behrendt
Master of Liberal Arts Student, admitted Autumn 2021
BioDani Essindi Behrendt is an American global executive, entrepreneur and investor in the fields of auto tech, fintech, health tech and digital media.
He is known for his role in ETRE as editorial director where he chaired the leading tech global technology editors, his re-launching of Red Herring Magazine, the bible of tech, the creation of tripJane, the first engine using AI/NLP for travel, as well as developing an AR platform for the publishing industry, and his co-founding Honda’s Silicon Valley Open Innovation Lab where he created Android Automotive Alliance and AppleCarPlay. He is currently using his skill set set at Apple.
Dani holds five patents and and has a wide range of interest, including guiding European startups to enter the US market and helping people in African developing nations reach their goals.
Dani is a trained economist with a B.S. and M.S. in econometric modeling and holds an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
He is currently pursuing a Masters of Liberal Arts at Stanford University. -
Isabela Beine
Masters Student in Energy Science and Engineering, admitted Autumn 2024
BioResearching hydrogen storage in porous media. Interest in energy storage solutions for renewable energy sources.
