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Mandy Tao
Masters Student in Clinical Informatics Management, admitted Summer 2026
BioMandy Tao is a healthcare strategist with experience across global biopharma, hospital operations, and health policy in the US, Germany, Switzerland, and China. She has led digital transformation for a major hospital system, managed top global accounts at MilliporeSigma (Merck KGaA), and served as Strategy Director / Chief of Staff to EVP at Merck KGaA in Frankfurt.
Mandy is also a dedicated community builder. She served on the Leadership Team of the Lean In Frankfurt Circle, where her work was recognized by Sheryl Sandberg as part of LeanIn.org's global efforts, and served on the Harvard Graduate Council. At Stanford, she is a Stanford Graduate Public Service Fellow, with interests spanning longevity and aging, health policy, and data visualization.
Mandy holds an MPH from Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and a BA in Economics from the University of Waterloo. At Stanford Medicine, she is building on this foundation to turn complex health-system challenges into scalable, data-driven solutions. -
Kamran Tehranchi
Ph.D. Student in Civil and Environmental Engineering, admitted Autumn 2023
BioKamran Tehranchi is a Ph.D. Student in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford University researching planning processes for decarbonized and reliable electricity systems. His work focuses on developing energy system optimization models to support policy analysis. He has previously worked in the public sector as a Shultz Energy Fellow at the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), an analyst at a Community Choice Aggregator (CCA), and within city and county governments. He is a member of the Interdisciplinary Energy Systems research group, advised by Professor Ines Azevedo. He holds a M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University.
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Merve Tekgürler
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2019
Masters Student in Symbolic Systems, admitted Autumn 2023BioMerve Tekgürler is a PhD candidate in History (ABD) and an M.S. student in Symbolic Systems. In AY 2023-24, they hold the inaugural Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship. Merve has a BA degree in History and Social and Cultural Anthropology from Freie University Berlin and an MA in History from Stanford.
Merve’s dissertation, tentatively titled “Crucible of Empire: Danubian Borderlands and the Making of Ottoman Administrative Mentalities” focuses on the Ottoman-Polish borderlands in the long 18th century (1760s-1820s), examining the changes and continuities north of the Danube River in relation to Russian and Austrian expansions. They study Ottoman news and information networks in this region and their impact on production and mobilisation of imperial knowledge.
As part of their dissertation project, Merve is training a handwritten text recognition model for 18th century Ottoman Turkish administrative hand and developing AI-based natural language processing tools for Ottoman Turkish. Their aim is to compile a large machine-readable corpus of manuscript news communiques and employ computational text analysis methods. In AY 2022-23, they were a Digital Humanities Graduate Fellow at Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) with their project on topic modeling in Ottoman court histories from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Merve’s research on the borderlands ties to their passion for maps and spatial humanities. They are the co-PI in Cistern: A Database of Geographical Knowledge in the Ottoman World, which they started with Adrien Zakar in Winter 2020. They also contributed to their advisor Ali Yaycıoğlu’s Mapping Ottoman Epirus project, building a placenames dataset from an Ottoman transportation map and developing a 3D model of the late-nineteenth century Ottoman Empire with exaggerated elevation data.
Previously, Merve was a G.J. Pigott Scholar (AY 2022-23) and graduate coordinator of Stanford Humanities Center Eurasian Empires Workshop (AY 2021-22 & 2022-23). They also worked as senior graduate mentor for the Undergraduate Research Internship at CESTA from Spring 2021 to Fall 2022. Outside academia, Merve enjoys playing tennis, doing gymnastics, and all kinds of DIY projects. -
Michael Temprano
Juris Doctor Student, Law
BioAs a 1L at Stanford Law School, I am excited to pursue high-stakes complex litigation. Before joining SLS, I worked as a paralegal at a trial law firm, where I drafted complaints, motions, demand letters, mediation/trial briefs, and liability memos. Though I initially joined the firm as part of the Pre-Litigation department, I eventually transitioned to the Litigation team. My experience across both departments equips me with an understanding of case development. Prior to my role as a paralegal, I interned at Bay Area Legal Aid, where I assisted over 1,000 pro se litigants with various civil legal matters. In recognition of my academic excellence and community service, the Cal Alumni Association honored me as a 2x Leadership Award recipient.
Extending my work ethic from the firm to the classroom, I graduated summa cum laude from UC Berkeley with a cumulative 4.00 GPA. Through UC Berkeley's Honors Sociology program, I wrote a socio-legal thesis titled "Litigating on the Public Radar: Class Action Accessibility & Transparency in California's Northern District." This thesis won the Departmental Citation, the highest honor awarded to one graduating senior for best undergraduate research and outstanding academic achievement. In addition to my coursework, I served as a Legal Research Fellow at Berkeley Law’s Civil Justice Research Initiative, where I briefed SCOTUS cases and analyzed settlement distribution in federal class actions. I also led as President of UC Berkeley’s Latine Pre-Law Society. In my free time, I volunteered at Legal Aid at Work, assisting pro se litigants with employment law matters. -
Faye Shen Li Thijssen
Ph.D. Student in Environmental Social Sciences, admitted Autumn 2025
BioFaye is a PhD student in Environmental Social Sciences. Her research focuses on how global institutions and powerful actors shape environmental governance structures, with particular focuses on United States overseas military basing & anti-basing social movements, and multinational corporations.
Prior to coming to Stanford, her research focused on indirect corporate influence in environmental politics, investigating executional greenwashing and its potential to affect public perceptions and preferences for regulatory policy. This research primarily employed experimental methods, with support from the Oxford Department of Politics & International Relations and the Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences. -
Ben Thomas
Juris Doctor Student, Law
Student/Hourly, Law Student EmployeesBioBen Thomas is a current 1L at Stanford Law School. Originally from Dayton, Ohio, he graduated with highest honors from Emory University as a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar in 2023, concentrating in political science, comparative literature, and Russian. Ben then earned his MLitt in Comparative Literature as a Robert T. Jones Scholar from Scotland's University of St Andrews in August 2024. He also tutors high school students currently applying to college in the U.S., as well as those conducting independent research. Ben's own published work spans biochemistry, comparative literature, education policy, Russian studies, ethics, and comparative politics, and his internship experiences have ranged from an international peace-building nonprofit and a congressional campaign to a digital literary studio and California’s Environmental Protection Agency. In his free time, he enjoys playing bass trombone, running, doing crosswords, attempting landscape photography, and hiking.
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Hannah Thomas
Ph.D. Student in Health Policy, admitted Autumn 2024
BioI am a resident in urologic surgery at the University of Toronto, currently pursuing my PhD in Health Policy (Decision Sciences) at Stanford University as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. I previously completed a Masters in Global Health Sciences from UCSF.
I am passionate about leveraging data to guide evidence-based health policy, both domestically and globally. My doctoral thesis uses mathematical modelling to address critical disparities between the burden of disease and the urologic workforce- seeking to provide actionable insights for workforce planning and development in resource-constrained healthcare systems.
I serve on the Board of Trustees for the International Student Surgical Network. -
Blake Thomson
MD Student with Scholarly Concentration in Health Services & Policy Research, expected graduation Spring 2027
BioBlake Thomson is a population health researcher and medical student at Stanford. An epidemiologist by training, he holds an MPhil in Epidemiology from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil (PhD) in Population Health from the University of Oxford. Before medical school, he served as Principal Scientist in Cancer Disparities Research at the American Cancer Society.
Blake has authored or co-authored more than 30 articles in medical and public health journals, including The Lancet and JAMA. His first-author publications have appeared in such journals as The Lancet Global Health, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Oncology, JAMA Neurology, Chest, and Circulation, among others. This work has received media attention from such outlets as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, and Nature.
His clinical and academic interests center on the prevention of chronic disease, with a particular focus on the behavioral, social, and biological factors that shape mental and physical health across the life course. He plans to pursue a career as an academic psychiatrist integrating patient care with population health research that informs clinical practice and health policy. -
Tristan Thrush
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, admitted Autumn 2023
BioI'm a Computer Science PhD student at Stanford in the NLP group and AI lab, supervised by Tatsunori Hashimoto and Christopher Potts. Previously, I was a founding member of the technical staff at Contextual AI (a startup working on retrieval augmented generation). Before that, I was a research engineer at Hugging Face. Before that, I was a research associate at Facebook AI Research, supervised by Douwe Kiela and then Adina Williams. And before that, I was a research associate at MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences, supervised by Roger Levy. I Received my MEng in computer science with a concentration in artificial intelligence under Patrick Winston at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. I received my BS also at MIT in computer science, with a minor in linguistics and a minor in math. While I was an undergrad, I did research with the Perception Systems Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.
I'm interested in AI. Specifically: natural language processing, computer vision, high-dimensional statistics, and data-centric AI methods. I have done several large-scale projects with a focus on the data side, which is so intertwined with the model side that it is sometimes hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.
Here are three of my favorite papers:
Perplexity Correlations: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05816
(This one has some fun math and is useful for pretraining data selection)
Multimodal Evaluation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03162
(This one poses a still open challenge for word-order understanding in vision-language models)
Rover Relocalization for Mars Sample Return: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9381709
(There is nothing cooler than robots in space) -
Alexander Toews
Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2017
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMagnetic resonance imaging, computational imaging
