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Shagufta Shaheen
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Oncology
BioDr. Shaheen specializes in the gastrointestinal malignancies and she has expertise in treating neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). Following her fellowship in Hematology and Oncology, Dr Shaheen completed an advanced fellowship in Neuroendocrine tumors from Stanford University. The NET advanced fellowship is first of its kind in United State started under the leadership of Dr Pamela Kunz who is the founding Director of the Stanford Neuroendocrine Tumor Program established in 2015. After completing her advanced fellowship, Dr Shaheen joined Stanford Oncology division as Clinical Assistant Professor. Dr Shaheen is involved in further developing the neuroendocrine oncology program at Stanford which serves as a centre of excellence in the treatment of neuroendocrine tumors. Dr Shaheen is actively involved in clinical research and clinical trials. Dr Shaheen is also involved in taking care of patients admitted to the oncology service as well as resident and fellow teaching.
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Mohammad Shahrokh Esfahani
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology (Radiation and Cancer Biology)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy laboratory develops computational and statistical methods to extract clinically actionable information from cancer genomic data, particularly circulating cell-free DNA. We combine cancer genomics, liquid biopsy, and machine learning to improve early cancer detection, characterize minimal residual disease, monitor treatment response, and understand therapeutic resistance across solid tumors and hematologic malignancies.
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Hormoz Shahrzad
Graduate, Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioHormoz has worked on many topics in evolutionary computation, both in theory and practice. His master's thesis focused on BLADE, a method for automatically focusing evolutionary search on the most promising part of the genome, with the search distributed over multiple hosts. He is currently a PhD candidate at UT Austin, continuing his research at the Cognizant AI Lab (https://www.cognizant.com/us/en/ai-lab) and as a visiting student researcher at Stanford University, where he is working on his dissertation.
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Mohammed Abdul Saqhlain Shaik
Temp - Non-Exempt, Ophthalmology Research/Clinical Trials
BioSaqhlain is a Research Assistant at the Byers Eye Institute, where he applies his expertise in data science and statistical analysis to ophthalmic research. He holds a master’s degree in Statistics - Data Science from Cal State University East Bay and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Hyderabad, India.
His work focuses on data analysis, management, and standardization of ophthalmic imaging data to support clinical research. He collaborates with researchers to design and execute data-driven projects, ensuring data quality control and validation. Additionally, he assists with data acquisition, statistical analysis, and streamlining research workflows to enhance efficiency in ophthalmology studies.
Saqhlain is particularly interested in leveraging data science to improve research methodologies and facilitate insights in medical imaging. -
Shailja
Postdoctoral Scholar, Radiological Sciences Laboratory
BioShailja is an engineer and computational scientist interested in the modeling of the human brain to study neurological diseases and guide neurosurgeries. As a Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute’s postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Jennifer A. McNab and Prof. Josef Parvizi, she investigates tractography-based neurosurgical targeting. She is interested in mapping the whole brain structural connectivity network from diffusion MRI to functional connectivity in the human brain. Shailja received her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara and BS from Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Her doctoral research is on Reeb graphs for modeling white matter fibers in the human brain, which was awarded the Winifred and Louis Lancaster Best PhD Dissertation at UC Santa Barbara.
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Cory Shain
Assistant Professor of Linguistics and, by courtesy, of Psychology
BioI lead the Laboratory for Computation & Language in Minds & Brains (CLiMB Lab). We try to figure out how our brains let us go so efficiently from sensation (e.g., speech, reading) to meaning, and we do this using a combination of neuroimaging, computer modeling, and behavioral experiments. See the lab website for details.
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Mehrdad Shamloo
Professor (Research) of Neurosurgery and, by courtesy, of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe ultimate goal of the Shamloo laboratory is to rapidly advance our understanding of brain function at the molecular, cellular, circuit and behavioral levels, and to elucidate the pathological process underlying malfunction of the nervous system following injury and neurologic disorders such as stroke, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson’s disease, and autism. We have been focusing on the noradrenergic system and approaches leading to restoration of brain adrenergic signaling in these disorders.
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He Shan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Energy Science and Engineering
BioHe Shan obtained a joint Ph.D. in Energy and Engineering Thermophysics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and National University of Singapore. His research focuses on functional soft materials and thermal engineering design for water-energy systems. Working with his supervisor, Prof. Ruzhu Wang, he studies atmospheric water harvesting systems that extract clean water from arid air. His work includes developing a thermodynamic framework for hygroscopic materials and proposing new cyclic operating principles for water harvesting systems. These advances have been translated into a spin-off company and demonstrated in real arid climates. He received his M.S. from Chongqing University and was awarded the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Star in 2023.
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Hua Shan
Professor of Pathology
BioDr. Shan specializes in providing blood transfusion and apheresis treatment to patients with diverse medical problems. She has been practicing transfusion medicine for over thirty years. Dr. Shan served as the Medical Director of Transfusion Service at Stanford Medical Center from 2015 to 2026. Dr. Shan has also been leading research and education programs in the fields of transfusion safety, optimizing clinical blood transfusion practice and blood availability.
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Tong Shan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioTong completed her Ph.D. at the University of Rochester. She also holds an M.S. in Biostatistics from Northwestern University and a B.S. in Medical Imaging from Sichuan University.
In her research, Tong has explored topics such as subcortical and cortical neural responses to naturalistic speech and music, neural mechanisms underlying musical perception, and the impact of visual cues on speech-in-noise comprehension.
Currently, Tong is involved in the Speaker-Listener projects, where she investigates brain activities related to natural communication. She is excited to deepen her understanding of auditory processing of speech during communication and its implications for improving quality of life, particularly in clinical populations such as individuals with ASD, AD, etc.
Outside of her research, Tong is a music producer, creating original songs and soundtracks for video games. She has a passion for exploring the intersection of art and technology. -
Sadasivan (Sadas) Shankar
Res Tech Mgr - Microelec, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Current Role at StanfordResearch Technology Manager, Microelectronics
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
2575 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
sshankar@slac.stanford.edu
Adjunct Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
William F. Durand Building
496 Lomita Mall, Suite 102
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
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Vikram Shankar, MD
Clinical Instructor, Ophthalmology
BioDr. Shankar, MD, MPH, is a board-certified, fellowship-trained ophthalmologist at the Stanford Health Care Byers Eye Institute. He is also a clinical instructor in the Department of Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Shankar’s clinical focus is the medical and surgical care of cataracts and adult glaucoma, including premium lenses and minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS). Dr. Shankar’s research and professional interests include ophthalmic public health, biomedical devices, and digital health. He has a particular interest in the intersection of entrepreneurship, public health, and ophthalmology, aiming to find innovative solutions that will impact millions of patients.
Dr. Shankar has published research on lung cancer metastasis to the optic nerve, pharmacologic therapies in glaucoma, and surgical outcomes with a novel glaucoma device. He has also delivered presentations nationwide on topics including screening rates for diabetic retinopathy based on insurance type and socioeconomic factors, Medicaid expansion, and health disparities.
Dr. Shankar completed a combined MD/MPH at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. He earned the Albert F. Koetter, MD Scholarship; Dean’s Research Fellowship; and Jonathan Mann Fellowship as a medical student. He completed his ophthalmology residency at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. He subsequently completed his fellowship in glaucoma at the Stanford Byers Eye Institute.
Dr. Shankar is the cofounder of a seed-stage ophthalmic medical device startup that aims to improve patient safety and mitigate the environmental impact of eye care worldwide.
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Michael Shanks
Professor of Classics
BioProfessor at Stanford University, Michael Shanks is one of the most original and influential of contemporary archaeologists. He has been at the forefront of archaeological thought and practice since the 1980s, pioneering new ways of understanding and explaining, engaging with Graeco-Roman antiquity and European prehistory, mobilizing remains of the past all around us — instigating changes in archaeology and how we all work with remains of the past. A specialist in long-term perspectives on design and creativity, innovation and social change, he explores connections across the sciences, humanities, and arts in research collaborations and outreach through and beyond the academy, tapping more than $32m of funding over the last 25 years.
Current projects
MS is currently completing four long-running and interrelated projects.
Archaeological history — building scenarios.
Greece and Rome: a new model of antiquity. With Gary Devore. A project concerned with how one might conceive of antiquity as a kind of archaeological prehistory, retold through speculative fabulation. Against conventional narrative is offered a model of ancient lifeworlds conveyed through 45 personae and scenarios. Estimated delivery end of 2026.
Archaeological sites — encountering location.
Against place: a border archaeology. Based on archaeological itineraries in the northern borders of England/Scotland, including prehistoric and Roman field research, this project explores border crossings, trespass and transgression in questioning the character of space and place, site and region. Estimated delivery 2027.
Archaeological praxis — performance design.
Theatre/Archaeology: performing remains. With Mike Pearson. This book sums up 30 years of collaboration with performance artist Mike Pearson. In five portfolios of case studies in performance design they set out a pragmatics and methodology of deep mapping contemporary antiquity and prehistory. Estimated delivery end of 2025.
Archaeological actuality — for the future.
Archaeologies of Nature in Art: from Landscape to Climate Breakdown. With Gabriella Giannachi. This project mobilizes an archaeology of arts practices, from prehistory to contemporary art, to offer action-oriented responses to climate change in a reframing of the concept of nature. Estimated delivery autumn 2025.
The following is part of his continuing exploration of Applied Archaeology — design foresight.
Project Athena: Innovation in and through Learning. With Aisin Corporation led by Kenji Suzuki and in collaboration with Kimihiko Iwamura. Developing learning community and competencies in creative pragmatics — designing and implementing a strategy of corporate culture change. Ongoing 2025 – 2026. -
Jacqueline Erin Shanley
Affiliate, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioJacqueline is a psychology doctoral student in the PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium Program. She has multiple years of experience working in healthcare settings; she has both worked with patients who have autoimmune conditions and varying forms of dementia, alongside their families. Her research and clinical interests include health psychology, women's health, and relationships science.
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Kat Adams Shannon
Basic Life Research Scientist, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
BioKat studies how young children adapt their attention and learning behaviors to best match different early environments, with particular focus on understanding variability and strengths in contexts of early adversity. A key aim of her research is to create and collaborate on innovative uses of technology and statistical methods to support health, education, and developmental science.
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Camille Shantz
Research Asst., Pediatrics - Cardiology
BioCamille is a visiting medical student researcher in the Marsden Lab, working primarily with Dr. Alexander Kaiser. She is a Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation Fellow visiting from Boston University School of Medicine (Class of 2029) and earned her undergraduate degree in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests center on applying fluid mechanics and computational modeling to solve problems in pediatric cardiac surgery.
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Charles Shao
Affiliate, Stanford Center For Position, Navigation and Time (SCPNT)
BioA seasoned entrepreneur and senior executive with multiple start-up enterprises in Silicon Valley and China. As co-founder, vp engineering, CTO of Easyway Company Limited, design and implement a Chinese high-speed rail passenger transit service system. As a founding team member, start-up EPIN Technologies, Inc., ServGate Technologies, Inc., NetScreen Technologies, Inc. between 1996 ~ 2006.
Research fellow and deputy director, center for high-speed rail technology (CHRT), Tsinghua University. Managed R&D projects for China's high-speed rail system since 2006; Initiated “Introduction for High-Speed Rail Technologies” class at California State University, Bakersfield.
Venture partner of TEEC Angel Fund in Palo Alto. General partner of TSVC fund.
BSEE, MSEE, Lecturer/Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University following with visiting scholar at University of California San Diego during 1980 ~ 1993. First prize winner of Rail Technologies Awards by China Railway Society. -
Yanjie Shao
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
BioYanjie Shao joined Stanford University as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in August 2026. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and his B.S. in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). His research develops advanced semiconductor materials, devices, and integrated systems for energy-efficient information processing, with a particular focus on CMOS-compatible technologies, three-dimensional electronics, and nanoscale transport physics. His work integrates materials synthesis, nanofabrication, device characterization, and physics-based modeling.
Before joining Stanford, Yanjie was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT working with Prof. Jesús del Alamo and Prof. Dimitri Antoniadis, where he developed high-performance amorphous oxide semiconductor transistors and nanoscale ferroelectric devices for logic, memory, and AI hardware applications. His doctoral research at MIT, advised by Prof. Jesús del Alamo, advanced ultra-scaled tunneling transistors for low-voltage electronics by leveraging extreme quantum confinement to engineer tunneling transport at the nanoscale. He was a recipient of the Intel's 2023 Outstanding Researcher Award. -
Benjamin Shapero
Ph.D. Student in Earth System Science, admitted Autumn 2020
BioI am a geomicrobiologist and am broadly interested in the connections between protein biochemistry, environmental microbiology, and biogeochemistry. I hail from the surf town of Encinitas near San Diego. I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Southern California (USC), where I majored in both Biological Sciences and Classical Saxophone Performance. At USC I volunteered in a cellular and molecular neuroscience lab, and it was there that I discovered my fascination with proteins. After graduation, I worked in a vaccine design lab at Scripps Research. This research fostered my growing fascination with protein biochemistry and further exposed me to the realm of microbiology. I have since followed my interests in proteins and microbiology, along with my longstanding passion for climate science, to the field of geomicrobiology. I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in geomicrobiology at Stanford University in the Earth System Science department.
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Lucy Shapiro
Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsA basic question in developmental biology involves the mechanisms used to generate the three-dimensional organization of a cell from a one-dimensional genetic code. Our goal is to define these mechanisms using both molecular genetics and biochemistry.
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Eric S.G. Shaqfeh
Lester Levi Carter Professor and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI have over 25 years experience in theoretical and computational research related to complex fluids following my PhD in 1986. This includes work in suspension mechanics of rigid partlcles (rods), solution mechanics of polymers and most recently suspensions of vesicles, capsules and mixtures of these with rigid particles. My research group is internationally known for pioneering work in all these areas.
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Naima G. Sharaf
Assistant Professor of Biology and, by courtesy, of Structural Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch in the lab bridges biology, microbiology, and immunology to translate lipoprotein research into therapeutics
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Sandro Sharashenidze
Ph.D. Student in Political Science, admitted Autumn 2024
Master of Arts Student in Economics, admitted Autumn 2026BioSandro is a graduate student in political science who is interested in the intersection between international security, macroeconomics, and formal theory. Before joining Stanford, Sandro worked as a trading analyst and managed an education-focused NGO in Tbilisi, Georgia. He has a bachelor's in economics and a master's in international relations from the University of Chicago.
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Paul Sharek MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics (Hospital Medicine) at the Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch interests centered on hospital based quality of care improvement, and in particular pediatric patient safety. Areas of recent interest include developing practical tools to more accurately identify adverse medical events and to establish national rates of these adverse events. Additional areas of interest focus on developing the processes and systems to decrease the frequency of adverse drug events and adverse medical events at Children's hospitals in North America
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Micky Sharif
Senior Learning Experience Designer, Teaching and Learning Hub
BioMicky Sharif is a Senior Learning Experience Designer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he leads the design and development of innovative programs. His work brings together faculty, product, technology, and media teams to create transformative educational experiences.
Micky writes and speaks on topics including behavior change, artificial intelligence, and the design of powerful learning environments. Before joining Stanford GSB, he participated in the Stanford LEAD program, worked in instructional design at the University of California, San Francisco, and served as a learning design consultant at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Education and Technology from UC Berkeley, a master’s degree in Instructional Technologies, Learning, and Design from San Francisco State University, and Stanford's LEAD and Executive Leadership certificates. -
Mona Sharifi, MD, MPH
Clinical Instructor, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
BioDr. Mahnoosh (Mona) Sharifi joined the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford in September 2026 and serves as Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics. She is a primary care pediatrician, board certified in both pediatrics and clinical informatics, and a health services researcher and implementation scientist focused on studying the implementation of interventions in primary care and community-based settings to prevent chronic diseases, promote healthy behaviors for all children, and improve outcomes, particularly in childhood obesity. Her research examines how to design, implement, evaluate, and scale interventions across clinical and community settings. She integrates health services research, implementation science, and clinical informatics to evaluate care delivery and conduct pragmatic clinical trials testing scalable strategies that enable clinicians to deliver effective, equitable care across diverse real-world settings. Her overarching aim is to accelerate the translation of evidence into routine practice and to strengthen the role of pediatric primary care in addressing lifelong cardiometabolic risk. Dr. Sharifi is a co-author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ 2023 clinical practice guidelines on childhood obesity and recently led two successful NIH R01-funded multi-site trials studying the dissemination and implementation of guideline-recommended pediatric obesity care. She currently leads two new NIH-funded pragmatic trials studying the implementation of family-based interventions to prevent and treat obesity in children. Her scholarship encompasses complementary questions that deepen understanding of the field: the acceleration of evidence into practice using EHR-based clinical decision support and other implementation strategies, the cost-]effectiveness of pediatric obesity interventions, the role of neighborhood and structural factors in obesity disparities, and qualitative and mixed-methods investigations of patient and clinician perspectives on care. Since 2010, her research has been continuously supported by the NIH, AHRQ, PCORI, and CDC.
Dr. Sharifi received her B.S. in Economics and Biology from Emory University, her M.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and her M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her pediatric residency in the Boston Combined Pediatric Residency Program. After formal training in health services, public health, and patient-centered outcomes research as part of the AHRQ T32-funded Harvard-wide Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship and an K12 scholars’ program at Harvard, she completed a K08 career development award to develop further expertise in the field of implementation science and clinical informatics. She has extensive experience guiding and collaborating with transdisciplinary teams, successfully leading numerous studies that incorporate qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, and economic evaluation methodologies.
She prioritizes mentoring and supporting the career development of students, trainees, and junior faculty in her roles as Chief of General Pediatrics at Stanford and Co-Director of the Academic Pediatric Association’s Continuity Research Network (CORNET), a pediatric primary care practice-based research network involving academic primary care practices nationwide. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, she served as Chief of General Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine and the inaugural Director of Pediatric Health Services and Implementation Research, Co-Director of the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale, and Director of the Yale Scholars in Implementation Science, an NIH/NHLBI-funded K12 career development award program to train junior investigators in implementation science. -
Husham Sharifi
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
BioI am a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine in Stanford University School of Medicine. In addition to seeing patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), I focus my research and clinical practice on transplant-related pulmonary fibrosis, which includes fibrotic lung disease after lung transplant or after hematopoietic cell transplant. My research applies advanced computational analysis to clinical metadata and quantitative imaging data, domains that draw on my training in engineering and bioinformatics. In the clinical setting I see patients in a Lung Graft-versus-Host-Disease (GVHD) Clinic for individuals with pulmonary complications after life-saving hematopoietic cell transplant. Our clinic is part of a national Lung GVHD Consortium comprising Stanford, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, University of Michigan, and MD Anderson Cancer Center. In this context I am the site co-Principal Investigator for two national clinical trials through the Lung GVHD Consortium that are funded by the National Institutes of Health. The first trial uses a home spirometry device and monitoring system to study the association of Lung GVHD with respiratory viral infections. The second trial studies the diagnostic and prognostic utility of quantitative CT scans of the chest for Lung GVHD. My goal is to fuse detailed, communicative patient care with the advances of data science in medicine that I research and study.
I lead the chest imaging subgroup of the International Lung GVHD Consensus Project, an international effort convening in Geneva in September 2026 to revise the NIH diagnostic criteria for lung GVHD across the lifespan. Our subgroup is responsible for defining the role of chest imaging within those criteria, spanning the diagnostic requirements for CT, low-dose and novel imaging modalities, quantitative and AI-based image analysis, the relationship between imaging and bronchoscopic diagnosis, and the imaging characteristics of interstitial lung disease after transplant.
You can see my website at https://www.sharifi.com/. -
Aditi Sharma
Basic Life Res Scientist, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
Current Role at StanfordResearch Scientist
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Aparna Sharma
Operations Manager, Science Library
BioI manage the smooth day-to-day operation of the Science Library. This includes budgeting and hiring, training, and supervising full-time library specialists and student assistants and overseeing the maintenance and preservation of library collections. Assisting faculty and students with their research needs are among the responsibilities I enjoy the most.
