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Zachary Kaufman
Summer CSP Instructor, Continuing Studies
BioMy research as a climate scientist seeks to understand the physical processes that shape the polar regions. The high latitudes are undergoing the largest changes on Earth; in recent decades, Arctic temperatures have warmed at twice the global average, while 2023 featured the lowest Antarctic sea-ice extent on record. Policymakers’ ability to manage the consequences of these changes requires improved polar climate predictability. Rapidly declining Arctic Sea ice exposes new economic resources and shipping routes, necessitating a detailed understanding of where and how quickly newly open water will appear. In the Antarctic, the instability-prone West Antarctic Ice Sheet may have large future contributions to sea-level rise, but predicting the timing and magnitude of ice sheet melt requires a better understanding of how Antarctic warming trends will progress. To address these scientific priorities, my research characterizes ocean-ice sheet interactions, ventilation of the deep ocean, and coupled atmosphere-ocean variability, among other phenomena. A common theme across my work is the use of data-driven techniques to reconcile discrepancies between models and observations, identifying key areas for improving future generations of climate models.
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Ankita Kaulberg
Director of Innovation & Technology, Epidemiology and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordDirector of Innovation & Technology, HEARTS Lab
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Aanchal Preet Kaur
Postdoctoral Scholar, Hematology-Oncology
BioDr. Aanchal Preet Kaur is a post-doctoral fellow in the Ramakrishna lab interested in understanding the role of myeloid cells in driving immunosuppression and resistance to CAR T cell therapies in pediatric patients with diffuse midline glioma. Her work involves developing organoid models to study the interaction of myeloid cells and CAR T cells and further employ these models to validate targets identified in patient single cell sequencing data using CRISPR technology.
Dr. Aanchal Preet Kaur received her PhD in Oncology at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom where she focused on developing dendritic cell vaccines for melanoma. In her earlier post-doctoral work at Providence Cancer Institute with Dr. Michael Gough, she developed spheroid models to study the impact of radiation therapy on immune cell-cancer cell interactions. -
Amit Kaushal
Adjunct Professor, Bioengineering
BioDr. Kaushal is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. He is a respected internal medicine physician with expertise in applications of computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) to medicine and public health. He has worked in roles ranging from deeply technical to deeply clinical, in both academia and industry.
Dr. Kaushal brings over 20 years of research experience at the intersection of computer science and biomedicine. His work focuses on taking AI/ML applications from concept all the way through live clinical deployment, with attention to fair and ethical use of AI. His work has been featured in JAMA, Nature, Lancet Digital Health, NEJM AI, NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery, Nature npj Digital Medicine, JAMA Network Open, Health Affairs Blog, and others; and he has been covered in popular media outlets such as Scientific American, Wired, STAT News, The Verge, LA Times, and more.
Dr. Kaushal launched Stanford University School of Engineering's undergraduate degree program in Biomedical Computation over 20 years ago; he serves as co-director of the major, which has graduated over 150 students since its founding. He is a faculty in the Stanford Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center, and Stanford Partnership for AI-Assisted Care.
Dr. Kaushal practices hospital medicine at VA Palo Alto, where he also serves as inaugural Director of the Amplified Reach Catalyst (ARC) Program, an embedded research-support infrastructure for VA hospitalist clinicians.
Dr. Kaushal has served in executive, operating, and advisory roles in industry.
Dr. Kaushal is board certified in both internal medicine and clinical informatics. He completed his BS (Biomedical Computation), MD, PhD (Biomedical Informatics) and Internal Medicine residency training all at Stanford University. -
Dr Mohit Kaushal MD
Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Data Science
BioDr. Mohit Kaushal is an accomplished entrepreneur, investor, and physician with a distinguished career spanning clinical medicine, academia, public policy and industry. He has served as an investor and board member for numerous public and private transformative companies, including Oak Street Health (NYSE: OSH, acquired by CVS Health, NYSE: CVS), Humedica (acquired by Optum, NYSE: UNH), RxAnte (acquired by Millennium), Change Healthcare (acquired by Emdeon), Universal American (NYSE: UAM, acquired by WellCare, NYSE: WCG), goBalto (acquired by Oracle, NYSE: ORCL), CitiusTech (acquired by Baring), Wellframe (acquired by HealthEdge), and George Clinical (acquired by Hillhouse).
During the Obama administration, Dr. Kaushal served on the White House Health IT Task Force, contributing to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s technology initiatives and testifying before Congress on the role of technology and payment reform in Medicare. He also established and led the first dedicated healthcare team at the Federal Communications Commission, where his work included partnering with the FDA to streamline regulation of converged telecommunications, analytics, and medical devices, ultimately resulting in the FDA’s mobile medical applications guidance. His team also restructured the Rural Healthcare Fund into the Healthcare Connect Fund, aligning its resources with broader healthcare technology and payment reforms.
In academia, Dr. Kaushal is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, which integrates AI, biomedical informatics, biostatistics and computer science to advance precision health. His teaching emphasizes the application of data—ranging from molecular and tissue-level information to imaging, EHR, biosensors, and population health—to improve medical outcomes.
He remains active in public policy as a Scholar in Residence at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and was previously a Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution. His policy work includes previous appointments to the FDASIA Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee and the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, advising HHS on data access and use.
Dr. Kaushal is an emergency physician by training, holds an MBA from Stanford University, and earned his MD with distinction from Imperial College London. -
Nita Singh Kaushal
Business and Technology Curriculum Director, Continuing Studies
Current Role at StanfordBusiness Curriculum Lead and Instructor at Stanford Continuing Studies
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David Kauvar
Clinical Professor, Surgery - Vascular Surgery
BioDavid Kauvar, MD, MPH is an academic vascular surgeon who received his undergraduate medical education on active duty in the US Army at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He completed his residency in general surgery at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, a surgical research fellowship at the United States Army Institute for Surgical Research, and a clinical fellowship at the University of Utah. His 24-year career as a wartime and vascular surgeon culminated with his retirement in 2022. During his tenure in the military, Dr. Kauvar was a respected surgical educator and became an academic leader in the fields of military and vascular trauma. He earned a Master of Public Health degree from the University of North Texas and was inducted into the Order of Military Medical Merit for his contributions to military medicine.
Dr. Kauvar has served as a general surgery residency associate program director for research and as a residency program director, chair of an institutional review board, and chief of a vascular surgery service. He commanded a combat surgical unit in Afghanistan and led two multimillion-dollar Department of Defense combat casualty care research labs. He has authored over eighty peer-reviewed publications and numerous textbook chapters, has presented research at dozens of national and international surgical meetings and has been invited to speak internationally about vascular trauma as an acknowledged expert in the field.
Dr. Kauvar is now Clinical Professor of Surgery in the Division of Vascular Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine with his primary clinical responsibilities at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California. He is married and has one son. -
Isabelle Kavanagh
Ph.D. Student in Oceans, admitted Winter 2025
BioIsabelle Kavanagh is a first year PhD student in the Oceans department at Stanford University, studying hydrodynamics and heat transfer over coral reefs with Dr. Stephen Monismith.
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Makoto Kawai
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine
BioI am a physician scientist in the field of sleep medicine in aging and brain function. Using combined polysomnogram and novel neuroimaging technology, I aim to identify potential sleep biomarkers to investigate the mechanism of progression from normal aging to Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) or dementia. I also investigate the impact of sleep on cognitive/affective function or behavior abnormality in various neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders.
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Yujiro Kawai
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCardiovascular surgery, Translational research, Regenerative research, Heart failure, Tissue engineering, Heart transplant, Spinal cord ischemia, iPS cell,
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Martin Kawalski MD, PhD
Affiliate, OHNS/Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery
Visiting Scholar, OHNS/Sleep Surgery DivisionBioDr. Martin Kawalski, MD, PhD, is a Sleep Medicine researcher at Stanford University investigating how consumer wearables can quantify the impact of disrupted sleep on aging processes. He is particularly interested in leveraging AI-driven solutions to enhance patient education and engagement in digital health platforms. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Kawalski founded and led innovations in sports and lifestyle electronics, including co-founding SKEO—an alpine sports safety wearable developed with Olympian Bode Miller. His extensive international experience equips him with a global perspective and an ability to collaborate seamlessly across diverse cultures and disciplines.
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Masataka Kawana
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
BioDr. Kawana is the Medical Director of the Ambulatory Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Service in the Advanced Heart Failure program. He completed his internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine, and heart failure training at Stanford. He also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship under Dr. James Spudich in the Department of Biochemistry. He manages advanced heart failure patients in the clinic, CCU/heart failure service, and post-heart transplant/MCS service. His research interests are in the fundamental mechanisms of inherited cardiomyopathies, and he studies the effect of gene mutations on cardiac sarcomere function using cutting-edge biochemical and biophysical approaches, which would lead to the development of novel pharmacotherapy that directly modulates cardiac muscle protein. He is involved in multiple clinical trials for pharmacotherapy and novel device studies in heart failure and inherited cardiomyopathy.
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Ayako Kawano
Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources, admitted Autumn 2022
BioAyako Kawano is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University. Her research interests include the impact analysis of air pollution on population health and climate change in low- and middle-income countries using remote sensing data and machine learning methods. Before coming to Stanford, she worked as a Data Scientist at UN Global Pulse and as a Program Manager at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
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Dane Kawano
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2019
BioBorn and raised in Hawaii. Moved to Seattle, WA to study biology and biochemistry at the University of Washington. After graduating, I moved to Bethesda, MD to work at the NIH as an IRTA fellow. Currently in the Shen Lab studying microtubule biology in C. elegans neurons
