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Scott G. Soltys, MD
Professor of Radiation Oncology (Radiation Therapy) and, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy clinical and research interests focus on the development of new radiation techniques involving stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy for the treatment of malignant and benign tumors of the brain and spine, as well as functional disorders such as trigeminal neuralgia.
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Sulaiman Somani
Fellow in Medicine - Med/Cardiovascular Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSulaiman Somani is passionate about harnessing the power of cardiovascular signals (e.g., electrocardiograms) and large clinical data (e.g., unstructured like clinical notes) with artificial intelligence to create digital health tools to explain important research questions in and develop digital health tools for prevalent problems in Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology, particularly around atrial fibrillation.
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George Somero
David and Lucile Packard Professor in Marine Science, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsWe examine two aspects of organism-environment interactions: How does stress from physical (e.g., temperature) and chemical (oxygen levels, pH) factors perturb organisms and how do organisms respond, adaptively, to cope with this stress? We examine evolutionary adaptation and phenotypic acclimatization using a wide variety of marine animals, including Antarctic fishes and invertebrates from intertidal habitats on the coastlines of temperate and tropical seas.
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Michael A. Sommeling
Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2024
Masters Student in Electrical Engineering, admitted Spring 2026Current Research and Scholarly Interestsbrain-computer interface, electrophysiology, nanofabrication, retinal prosthesis
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Barbara Sommer
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in the clinical investigation of cognitive stresses during younger adulthood that may give rise to frank intellectual impairment with older age. Examples may include specific kinds of chronically taken medications.
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Richard Sommer
Lecturer, Mathematics
BioRick Sommer received both his bachelors and PhD degrees in Mathematics from UC Berkeley, where he began his research in mathematical logic. Rick held a research position at MSRI in 1989 - 1990, and became a Gabor Szego Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Stanford in 1990. In 1995, Rick co-founded the Stanford University Mathematics Camp, for which he served as Director for over 25 years, and continues in a role as Consultant and Instructor. Also in the mid-90s, Rick took on a leadership role in developing online courses and residential summer programs for Stanford's Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY). In 2012, EPGY transformed into Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies (SPCS), providing a home to the Stanford Online High School as well as over a dozen summer and year-around pre-collegiate programs, many of which Rick played a role in designing, developing and leading. Rick served as Executive Director of SPCS from 2015-2020. Rick is currently Lecturer in Mathematics teaching a range of courses (Math 56, 101, 110, 113, 115, 120, 161), and he also teaches logic courses in the Philosophy Department (Phil 151/252, 152/252, 352). Rick has a strong interest in mathematics education, and more generally in educational programs designed to inspire and develop the curiosity of young people. Rick is Co-Founder and Board Member of AI4ALL, working to ensure that the next generation of AI leaders reflects humanity, and he is Treasurer and Board Member of the Gathering for Gardner Foundation, stimulating curiosity and the playful exchange of ideas in mathematics and related fields, in the spirit of Martin Gardner. Additionally, Rick is on the Steering Committee of the Summer Mathematics Programs Consortium, and on the Advisory Committees of National Math Camps, Julia Robinson Math Festival, and the International Logic Olympiad. In his spare time, Rick runs marathons, tends his garden, enjoys travel, and spends time with family.
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Hong Song, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology (Nuclear Medicine)
BioHong Song received his MD from Tulane University School of Medicine and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Tulane University. He performed research in targeted radionuclide therapy as a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University. Following medical school, he joined Dual pathway Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology residency at Stanford. His current research interests include PSMA PET in biochemically recurrent prostate cancer and DOTATATE PET in PRRT for neuroendocrine tumors.
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Leina'ala Song, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
BioDr. Song is a double board-certified sports medicine physician with Stanford Health Care Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. She is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Song completed fellowship training in orthopaedics and sports medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington.
Dr. Song specializes in managing a wide range of sports and musculoskeletal injuries. She performs ultrasound-guided injections including corticosteroid, hyaluronic acid, and PRP. She is also skilled at using high-resolution ultrasound to perform other minimally invasive interventions, such as ultrasound guided percutaneous tenotomy. She is currently the primary team physician for numerous Division 1 athletic teams at Stanford University, including men’s volleyball, women’s volleyball, beach volleyball, lacrosse, open weight crew, light weight crew, softball, artistic swim, and sailing.
Dr. Song’s research interests include the long-term outcomes of percutaneous ultrasound-guided tenotomy, orthobiologics, and the health of the female athlete. She has taught sports medicine fellows as well as primary care residents. She has provided sideline coverage at multiple athletic events, as well as pre-participation screenings for professional teams such as the Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Seawolves. -
Peiyang Song
Affiliate, Psychology
BioPeiyang Song is a rising senior studying Computer Science at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), advised by Prof. Steven Low, with a minor in Robotics advised by Prof. Günter Niemeyer. He is a researcher in Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, advised by Prof. Dawn Song and Dr. Jingxuan He. He also works in Stanford AI Lab (SAIL), advised by Prof. Noah Goodman and Dr. Gabriel Poesia in the Computation & Cognition Lab (CoCoLab). His current research interest is mainly in LLM reasoning, especially neuro-symbolic AI for formal math and verifiable code generation. In the past, he also published on neuro-symbolic methods for energy-efficient ML systems and neural machine translation.
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Shuran Song
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
BioShuran Song is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Before joining Stanford, she was faculty at Columbia University. Shuran received her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Princeton University, BEng. at HKUST. Her research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision and robotics. Song’s research has been recognized through several awards, including the Best Paper Awards at RSS’22 and T-RO’20, Best System Paper Awards at CoRL’21, RSS’19, and finalists at RSS, ICRA, CVPR, and IROS. She is also a recipient of the NSF Career Award, Sloan Foundation fellowship as well as research awards from Microsoft, Toyota Research, Google, Amazon, and JP Morgan.
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Suihong Song
Physical Science Research Scientist, Energy Science & Engineering
BioSuihong Song collaborates with Professor Tapan Mukerji at the Stanford Center for Earth Resources Forecast (SCERF) as a postdoctoral scholar. His research is centered on integrating machine learning with geosciences, specifically focusing on machine learning-based reservoir characterization and geomodelling, Physics-informed Neural Networks (PINNs) and neural operators as well as their applications in porous flow simulations, neural networks-based surrogate and inversion, decision-making under uncertainty, and machine learning-based geological interpretation of well logs and seismic data. These research endeavors have practical applications in managing underground water resources, oil and gas exploration, geological storage of CO2, and the evaluation of hydrothermal and natural hydrogen, among others.Song proposed GANSim, an abbreviation for Generative Adversarial Networks-based reservoir simulation, which presents a reservoir geomodelling workflow. This innovative approach has been successfully implemented in various 3D field reservoirs by international oil companies, including ExxonMobil.
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Maksim Sonin
Visiting Scholar, Precourt Institute for Energy
BioDr. Maksim Sonin is an energy executive who drives global investments and executes large-scale capital developments valued at over $15B across major sectors and geographies, from the Arctic to the desert, with teams spanning five continents.
Dr. Sonin has held executive roles and served on the boards of UCC (with a capital projects portfolio exceeding $10B), Silleno ($7B+ world-scale petrochemical complex), KMG Petrochem ($2B+ gas processing facility), and other organizations. He has led world-scale petrochemical, ammonia, and fertilizer complexes representing a significant share of global production and traded supply. This includes some of the world's largest plants, setting new benchmarks for single-train production capacity. He has worked with Chevron, Shell, and ExxonMobil in consortium ventures and collaborated with other players.
As a Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy, his current work focuses on the technical, economic, and execution challenges associated with developing and scaling energy and industrial infrastructure. A Sloan Fellow with an MS in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), Dr. Sonin also holds a PhD in Engineering from the Scientific Research Institute of Natural Gases and Gas Technologies, and an MS in Finance. He is an elected Fellow of the Energy Institute (UK) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK). -
Geoffrey Sonn
Cortlandt T. Hill Memorial Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Radiology (Body MRI)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy interest is in improving prostate cancer diagnosis through MRI and image-targeted prostate biopsy. In collaboration with radiologists at Stanford, we are working to define the optimal role of MRI in prostate cancer. We hope to improve cancer imaging to the point that some men with elevated PSA may safely avoid prostate biopsy. For those who need biopsy, we are evaluating novel MRI-US fusion targeted biopsy, a technique that greatly improves upon the conventional biopsy method.
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Justin L. Sonnenburg
Alex and Susie Algard Endowed Professor
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe goals of the Sonnenburg Lab research program are to (i) elucidate the basic mechanisms that underlie dynamics within the gut microbiota and (ii) devise and implement strategies to prevent and treat disease in humans via the gut microbiota. We investigate the principles that govern gut microbial community function and interaction with the host using a broad range of experimental approaches including studies of microbiomes in diverse human cohorts.
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Irene Sonu
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology
BioI am passionate about gut health and strive to provide the best care to my patients. I specialize in complex motility disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. My areas of clinical expertise include achalasia, dysphagia, eosinophilic esophagitis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, gastroparesis, functional dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome, and pelvic floor dysfunction. I also see patients in need of fecal microbiota transplant for recurrent C. difficile infection.
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Steven Soo
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine
BioSteven Soo, MD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at Stanford. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, he earned his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Oregon State University and began his career in the paper and semiconductor manufacturing industries before pivoting to medicine. Dr. Soo completed medical school and internal medicine residency at New York University Grossman Long Island School of Medicine. In addition to his clinical responsibilities, he has been actively involved in a range of quality improvement and research projects. His academic interests include cardiology, with particular focus on cardio-oncology and advanced heart failure, as well as systems-based strategies for improving patient care and clinical operations.
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Piya Sorcar
Academic Staff - Hourly - CSL, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
BioDr. Piya Sorcar is the founder and CEO of TeachAids, an Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s School of Medicine, and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Graduate School of Education. She leads a team of world experts in medicine, public health, and education to address some of the most pressing public health challenges.
TeachAids is an award-winning 501(c)(3) nonprofit social venture that creates breakthrough software addressing numerous persistent problems in health education around the world, including HIV/AIDS, concussion, and COVID-19. A pioneer in the development of infectious disease education, TeachAids HIV education software is used in 82 countries. In partnership with the US Olympic Committee’s National Governing Bodies, TeachAids has launched the CrashCourse concussion education product suite, which includes research-based applications available online as a standard video and in virtual reality. CoviDB is their third health education initiative, a community-edited platform organizing resources across a comprehensive set of topics relating to COVID-19 for free public use.
Sorcar received her Ph.D. in Learning Sciences and Technology Design and her M.A. in Education from Stanford University. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a B.A. in Economics, B.S. in Journalism, and B.S. in Information Systems. She has been an invited speaker at leading universities such as Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Tsinghua, and Yale. MIT Technology Review named her to its TR35 list of the top 35 innovators in the world under 35 and she was the recipient of Stanford’s Alumni Excellence in Education Award. -
Sarah Sorice, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Surgery - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
BioDr. Sorice-Virk is a board-certified, fellowship-trained plastic and reconstructive surgeon with the Stanford Health Care Cancer Center and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. She is medical director of the Stanford Health Care Breast Reconstruction Program in the East Bay. Dr. Sorice-Virk completed her medical degree at New York University School of Medicine. She then went on to do her residency in Plastic Surgery and fellowship in Advanced Wound Care at Stanford University School of Medicine. Finally, this was followed by a fellowship in Advanced Reconstructive Microsurgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Sorice-Virk’s clinical interests include complex reconstruction after cancer and trauma while keeping optimal aesthetic outcomes as a top priority. She performs a wide range of procedures, including breast reconstruction and other cancer reconstruction such as gynecologic, colorectal and orthopedic among others, breast-conserving surgery, cosmetic plastic surgery, reconstructive plastic surgery, and body contouring. Patients of Dr. Sorice-Virk benefit from a personalized and compassionate care approach. In addition to offering the entire gamut of standard reconstructive modalities, she uses cutting edge surgical techniques, such as perforator flaps (i.e. DIEP flap), hybrid breast reconstruction (i.e. the combination of free flap transfer and implant placement), and breast neurotization to restore breast sensation and in conjunction with the breast surgeons, expanding indications for nipple sparing mastectomies to improve aesthetic outcomes for more patients.
Research interests of Dr. Sorice-Virk include plastic surgery/breast reconstruction outcomes and integrative medicine in plastic surgery. She serves as the principal investigator for multiple research projects and has received grant funding from several organizations.
Her published work includes numerous papers, book chapters, and abstracts, and she has presented her findings at national and international conferences. Additionally, Dr. Sorice-Virk is an ad hoc peer reviewer for Annals of Plastic Surgery and Microsurgery.
Dr. Sorice-Virk is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery.
