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Leif Wenar
Olive H. Palmer Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science
BioLeif Wenar is a political philosopher. After receiving his AB at Stanford, he earned his PhD at Harvard, worked in Britain, and returned to Stanford in 2020.
He is the author of Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World and the author-meets-critics volume Beyond Blood Oil: Philosophy, Policy, and the Future. He is also the author of the entries for ‘John Rawls’ and ‘Rights’ in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. His articles have appeared in Mind, Analysis, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Ethics, The Journal of Political Philosophy, The Columbia Law Review, and The Philosopher’s Annual. He co-edited Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy, as well as an autobiographical volume by the economist FA Hayek.
He has been a Visiting Professor at the Stanford Center on Ethics and Society, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the William H. Bonsall Visiting Professor in the Stanford Philosophy Department, a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow and a Visiting Professor at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values, a Visiting Professor at the Princeton Department of Politics, a Fellow of the Program on Justice and the World Economy at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at The Murphy Institute of Political Economy, and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University School of Philosophy.
His public writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, and the playbill for the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center. In London, he served for several years on the Mayor’s Policing Ethics Panel, which advises the Mayor and the Metropolitan Police on issues such as digital surveillance and the use of force.
He is currently developing unity theory, a foundational account of what makes for more valuable lives, relationships, and societies. His published work can be found at wenar.info. -
Paul Wender
Francis W. Bergstrom Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMolecular imaging, therapeutics, drug delivery, drug mode of action, synthesis
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Wendy Wenderski
Postdoctoral Scholar, Bioengineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMolecular mechanisms of chromatin remodeling by the BAF complex.
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Adam Wendt
Diving and Boating Safety Officer, Oceans
BioMy diving career started by surfing and snorkeling in Mexico with my family at a young age. I became a NAUI Divemaster and lived in Roatan Honduras. I later moved to Arlington Texas where I became a NAUI Instructor at University of Texas at Arlington. Later I moved to Panama City Florida and worked at Florida State University as the Diving Safety Officer and Underwater Crime Scene Investigation Instructor. I logged over 2500 dives in the North Florida waters from the Gulf of Mexico to the freshwater caves. It is my dream to make diving accessible to as many people as possible so they can share my love for the underwater world.
-AAUS Dive Safety Officer
-USCG 100 Ton Captain
-IANTD Course Director 10183
-NAUI Instructor 50617
-PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer 293578
-DAN Instructor 15470
-Public Safety Diving Instructor
-IANTD Cavern Instructor
-PSAI Full Cave Diver
-EFR CPR/AED Instructor
-TDI Advanced Nitrox and Decompression
-SCUBAPRO, AUP, Oceanic, Aeries, Kirby Morgan, Apeks, US Divers, OTS and Hollis Repair Technician -
Kirsti Weng Elder MD/MPH
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Weng is the Section Chief of General Primary Care. She has over 25 years of experience caring for patients in primary care, urgent care and in the hospital. She is also a teacher of students and residents. As a leader in primary care re-design, she is passionate about practicing patient-centered medicine. She is a an advocate of Mindfulness Self-compassion to develop equanimity. She practices with an emphasis on musculoskeletal care as she feels fitness is the foundation of wellness. She is a leader in organizational change and physician management. She supports community health and care for the underserved. Outside of work she enjoys biking, reading and spending time with her 8 children.
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Margaret Weng
Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth System Science
BioMaggie Weng is a NASA postdoctoral fellow in the Dekas lab at Stanford University. Her research focuses on understanding molybdenum availability and uptake strategies at deep-sea methane seeps. She uses culture-independent techniques including metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and stable isotope probing to understand whole-community dynamics. She earned her PhD from Georgetown University in 2024 with Dr. Sarah Stewart Johnson, where her research focused on microbes in hypersaline environments, and her bachelor's degree in 2019 from Washington University in St. Louis. She is interested in microbial persistence at the edge of possibility, including extreme environments and polluted sites, and how microbial communities contribute to bioremediation and ecosystem stability. She always says yes to fieldwork and as a consequence has found herself in the Atacama Desert, Kerlingarfjöll, Iceland, and Western Australia as well as a commercial salt factory in San Diego, CA. When not in the lab she is an avid writer, hiker and knitter. Her fiction and nonfiction writing have appeared in The Los Angeles Review and Northern Woodlands magazine. When out in the woods, she appreciates a good biofilm almost as much as a good view.
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Wen-Kai Weng, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy) and, by courtesy, of Dermatology
On Partial Leave from 04/06/2026 To 06/12/2026Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research interest is on immunotherapy (including allogeneic transplant) of cancer. I have studies the mechanism of monoclonal antibody therapy in lymphoma patients and am currently working on designing new strategy to enhance the clinical efficacy of antibody therapy by infusing expanded NK cells. I am also interested in using tumor vaccine along with hematopoietic cell transplant.
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Yingjie Weng
Assistant Director, Learning Health Systems Program, Med/Quantitative Sciences Unit
Current Role at StanfordResponsibilities - Assistant Director, Learning Health Systems Program (LHS)
Program Development & Resource Management
•Establish and update LHS program resources, including standard operating procedures, statistical analysis plan templates, and training materials.
Training & Mentorship
•Host onboarding training programs for new QSU hires and conduct regular training sessions within QSU.
•Establish and mentor a core team of statisticians and data scientists dedicated to the LHS program.
Project Oversight & Strategy
•Guide project assignments related to quality improvement, pragmatic trials, and real-world evidence studies utilizing electronic health records (EHRs).
Collaboration & Relationship Management
•Maintain strong partnerships with clinical advocates of LHS projects across collaborating departments.
•Host onboarding sessions with department leaders to communicate the program’s mission and objectives.
•Establish collaborations with various data teams across campus
Education & Outreach
•Organize educational sessions and lectures for clinical investigators across partnering departments.
•Serve as the primary point of contact for QSU regarding the LHS program.
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Responsibilities - Senior Biostatistician
Scientific Collaboration & Research Support
•Partner with research investigators on a wide range of scientific studies across the School of Medicine and Stanford Healthcare system.
Study Design & Statistical Planning
•Lead the development of study protocols and statistical analysis plans.
Data Management & Analysis
•Perform data management, visualization, and statistical analysis using advanced methodologies and tools.
Results Interpretation & Reporting
•Interpret statistical results and translate findings into clear, domain-specific language for publications and reports.
Grant & Manuscript Development
•Lead statistical methodology and results sections for grant applications, manuscript submissions, and public health reports.
Methodological Research
•Conduct research on statistical methodologies to enhance study designs and analytical approaches.
Mentorship & Teaching
•Mentor junior statisticians and serve as a KL2 research methodology mentor.
•Deliver lectures, including presentations for Hospital Medicine Grand Rounds. -
Jill Saylin Wentzell
Executive Director, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Current Role at StanfordExecutive Director, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
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Kelly Rose Wentzlof
Research Data Analyst, Yeatman Program
BioKely Wentzlof is a Research Data Analyst in Dr. Jason Yeatman's Brain and Education Lab at Stanford University specializing in statistical modeling, predictive analytics, and data-driven solutions within the research practice partnership model. Experience building R packages, interactive dashboards, and normative models that translate complex data into actionable insights for diverse stakeholders.
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Gerlinde Wernig
Associate Professor of Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsFibrotic diseases kill more people than cancer in this country and worldwide. We believe that scar-forming cells called fibroblasts are at the core of the fibrotic response in parenchymal organ fibrosis in the lung, liver, skin, bone marrow and tumor stroma. At the cellular level we think of fibrosis as a step wise process which implicates inflammation and fibrosis. We seek to identify new effective immune therapy targets to treat fibrotic diseases.
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Marius Wernig
Professor of Pathology and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEpigenetic Reprogramming, Direct conversion of fibroblasts into neurons, Pluripotent Stem Cells, Neural Differentiation: implications in development and regenerative medicine
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Sarah Wert
Student Services, Communication
BioPhD in social psychology from Yale University.
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Corinne Elizabeth Wertz
Affiliate, IT Services
BioCorinne Wertz, AGACNP-BC, a native to Ohio, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Minor in Spanish from Ohio University in 2004. She then completed an accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Ursuline College. For over eight years, Corinne worked as a registered nurse in the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. At UHCMC she trained many new nurses, became an Advanced Clinical Nurse, participated in multiple local and national nursing chapters, as well as worked on call for Interventional Radiology. After completing a Master of Science in Nursing degree from Kent State University and obtaining her Acute Care Nurse Practitioner certification in 2015, Corinne moved to San Diego to begin her career as a Neurosurgical Nurse Practitioner. She worked for a private practice at Scripps La Jolla, Scripps Encintas, and Scripps Mercy as a Registered Nurse First Assist in the operating room, on call, and in the outpatient clinic. After almost 14 years of neurosurgical experience, she continued her nurse practitioner career by becoming a member of the inpatient neurosurgical team at Stanford Health Care.
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Philipp Wesp
Postdoctoral Scholar, Radiology
BioI am a postdoctoral researcher investigating interpretable machine learning (ML) and large language model (LLM) applications in clinical radiology. My current research focuses on two complementary areas: understanding what human-interpretable concepts self-supervised vision foundation models learn through mechanistic interpretability techniques like sparse autoencoders, and developing LLM-based systems, including agentic workflows and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) architectures, that leverage unstructured hospital data to improve radiological workflows. I earned my PhD from LMU Munich, where I focused on clinically motivated machine learning applications in medical imaging in the Department of Radiology.
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Dee W. West
Professor of Health Research and Policy, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly Interests- Cancer etiology (diet, familial, genetic), especially breast, prostate and colon cancer
- Cancer surveillance (Cancer registration, cancer patterns)
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Robert West
Sabine Kohler, MD, Professor of Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsRob West, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Pathology at Stanford University Medical Center. He is a clinician scientist with experience in translational genomics research to identify new prognostic and therapeutic markers in cancer. His research focus is on the progression of neoplasia to carcinoma. His lab has developed spatially oriented in situ methods to study archival specimens. He also serves as a surgical pathologist specializing in breast pathology.
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Caryl J Westerberg
Accessibility Specialist, Stanford Web Services
Current Role at StanfordAccessibility Specialist
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M. Brandon Westover, MD, PhD
Instructor, Adult Neurology
BioDr. Westover earned a PhD in Physics from Washington University in St. Louis, and his MD from Washington University School of Medicine. He completed his neurology residency through the Mass General Brigham program and pursued fellowship training in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. His research group develops machine learning / AI approaches to improve medical care for patients with neurological problems including epilepsy, anoxic brain injury, seizures, cerebral ischemia, delirium, and sleep disorders. He is a co-producer of EEGTalk, author of Pocket Neurology and co-founder of Beacon Biosignals. At Stanford, he serves as Director of the Neurologic Artificial Intelligence Center and Chief of the Stanford Epilepsy Division.
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Lynn Marie Westphal, M.D.
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility) at Stanford University Medical Center, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInfertility, fertility preservation, oocyte cryopreservation
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Gordon Wetzstein
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science
BioGordon Wetzstein is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science at Stanford University. He is the leader of the Stanford Computational Imaging Lab and a faculty co-director of the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering. At the intersection of computer graphics and vision, artificial intelligence, computational optics, and applied vision science, Prof. Wetzstein's research has a wide range of applications in next-generation imaging, wearable computing, and neural rendering systems. Prof. Wetzstein is a Fellow of Optica and the recipient of numerous awards, including an NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, an ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), an SPIE Early Career Achievement Award, an Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award, an Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Award as well as many Best Paper and Demo Awards.
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Cornelia Weyand
Professor of Medicine (Immunology and Rheumatology), Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAutoimmunity
Chronic inflammatory disease
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Christopher Weyant
Temp - Non-Exempt, Health Policy
BioI am a Postdoctoral Scholar working in the field of health analytics. I previously completed a PhD in Management Science and Engineering, MS in Bioengineering, and BS in Chemical Engineering at Stanford. In my postdoc, I am developing and applying data-driven methods and models to solve problems in the healthcare sector.
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John Weyant
Professor (Research) of Management Science and Engineering, of Energy Science Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
BioJohn P. Weyant is Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Director of the Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy and an an affiliated faculty member of the Stanford School of Earth, Environment and Energy Sciences, the Woods Institute for the Environment, and the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. His current research focuses on analysis of multi-sector, multi-region coupled human and earth systems dynamics, global change systems analysis, energy technology assessment, and models for strategic planning.
Weyant was a founder and serves as chairman of the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC), a seventeen-year old collaboration among over 60 member institutions from around the world. He has been an active adviser to the United Nations, the European Commission, U.S.Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of State, and the Environmental Protection Agency. In California, he has been and adviser to the California Air Resources, the California Energy Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission..
Weyant was awarded the US Association for Energy Economics’ 2008 Adelmann-Frankel award for unique and innovative contributions to the field of energy economics and the award for outstanding lifetime contributions to the Profession for 2017 from the International Association for Energy Economics, and a Life Time Achievement award from the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium in 2018. Weyant was honored in 2007 as a major contributor to the Nobel Peace prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and in 2008 by Chairman Mary Nichols for contributions to the to the California Air Resources Board's Economic and Technology Advancement Advisory Committee on AB 32.
Fields of Specialization:
Energy/Environmental Policy Analysis, Strategic Planning
Interests:
Overall goal is to accelerate the use of systems models at state, country, and global scales, aiming to provide the best available information and insights to government and private-sector decision makers. Specific areas include energy, climate change, and sustainable development policy, including emerging technologies and market design alternatives. Draws on concepts and techniques from science and engineering fundamentals (e.g., thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, materials science, and electrical power systems), operations research, economics, finance, and decision theory. -
Jessica Whalen, MS
Program Director, Peds/Child Health Research Program
Current Role at StanfordProgram Director (PEDSnet) & Data Manager (Stanford Assessments of Bone Across the ages (SAMBA Center))
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Ryan Whaley
Technical Lead, Biomedical Data Science
Current Role at StanfordRyan is a software developer in the Department of Genetics and a co-technical lead of the PharmGKB. He is a Java developer with a background in database administration and project management and has been with the PharmGKB since 2007.
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Steven Whang
Visiting Associate Professor, Computer Science
BioSteven E. Whang is a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University, Computer Science (host: Prof. Christopher Ré). He is an Associate Professor with Tenure at KAIST Electrical Engineering and jointly affiliated with the Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI. His research interests include Data-centric AI and Responsible AI. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE TKDE (2023-2025) and VLDB (2026, 2025), and an Area Chair of ICLR 2025. Previously he was a Research Scientist at Google Research and co-developed the data infrastructure of the TensorFlow Extended (TFX) machine learning platform. Steven earned his PhD in Computer Science in 2012 from Stanford University under Prof. Hector Garcia-Molina. He is a Y-KAST (Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology) member, was a Kwon Oh-Hyun Endowed Chair Professor (2020-2023), and received a Google AI Focused Research Award (2018, the first in Asia). Homepage: https://stevenwhang.com
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Katherine Whatley
Ph.D. Student in Japanese, admitted Autumn 2019
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research examines the relationship between the written and the spoken word in Classical Japan. I take this relationship as the starting place and explore the role of music in Classical Japan through looking at words-as-song. From this vantage point, I argue that music was a primary mode of communication amongst people (especially women) and their surroundings—interpersonal, international, and inter-environmental. I am also a composer and koto performer working on a dissertation composition.
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Mele Wheaton
Associate Director of Program Strategy, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
Current Role at StanfordAssociate Director of Program Strategy (E-IPER)
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Matthew T. Wheeler
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsTranslational research in rare and undiagnosed diseases. Basic and clinical research in cardiomyopathy genetics, mechanisms, screening, and treatment. Investigating novel agents for treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and new mechanisms in heart failure. Cardiovascular screening and genetics in competitive athletes, disease gene discovery in cardiomyopathy and rare disease. Informatics approaches to rare disease and multiomics. Molecular transducers of physical activity bioinformatics.
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Eric Wheeler
Systems and Web Developer, Electrical Engineering
Web Dvlpr 3, Electrical EngineeringCurrent Role at StanfordSystems and Web Developer, Electrical Engineering
