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Tatiana Sorokina
Senior Associate Director, Industrial Contracts Office, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
Current Role at StanfordSenior Contracts Officer, Industrial Contracts Office
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Siamak Sorooshyari
Postdoctoral Scholar, Statistics
BioMy research lies at the intersection of AI/ML, statistics, biology, and engineering. I was initially trained as an electrical engineer, with a focus on signal processing and statistical algorithms. I then pursued my PhD in a neuroscience laboratory studying stress and the blood-brain barrier, where I gained experience with biological systems, experimental design, instrumentation, and data collection. My current work brings these perspectives together as I develop computational and statistical methods to better understand and predict biological processes.
A major focus of my research is understanding how aging affects the brain and how these changes are reflected across biological scales and measurement modalities. I have studied signals recorded from individual brain regions, communication between brain networks, and changes in functional connectivity across the lifespan. An important question in this work is whether quantitative properties of biological signals, such as monotonicity, exhibit consistent relationships with age. I am particularly interested in determining how different modalities capture changes associated with aging in both healthy and diseased systems, and what these measurements reveal about the underlying biological processes. This perspective can also provide insight into the reliability and interpretability of different recording modalities as measures of biological aging. I have recently begun extending these questions beyond the brain to the brain-gut-heart axis in healthy humans. By examining relationships and coordinated changes among measurements from multiple organs, I aim to develop a more integrated understanding of healthy aging and, ultimately, of how these relationships are altered in disease, specifically neurodegeneration. This work represents a broader effort to study aging as a multidimensional biological process rather than as a phenomenon confined to a single organ or measurement modality.
In parallel, I develop statistical methods for assessing the reliability and reproducibility of unsupervised learning results. In particular, I am interested in understanding how methodological choices - including the clustering algorithm, model parameters, and the number of clusters - can affect the conclusions drawn from noisy, high-dimensional datasets. This work has led to ERICA (evaluating replicability via iterative clustering assignments), a framework for evaluating whether clustering structure can be reproduced under repeated analyses without requiring a predefined ground truth. I am applying this framework to biological datasets, including cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, where clustering is frequently used to identify molecular or phenotypic subgroups. More broadly, this work seeks to develop rigorous statistical tools that can help distinguish reproducible structure from patterns that may depend strongly on methodological choices. -
Renata Sos
Lecturer, Public Policy
BioRenata has a broad background in public service, including as Mayor and Council Member of the Town of Moraga California, President of the California State Board of Accountancy, and chair of a number of public agency and non-profit boards. She worked with the California legislature on crafting regulations governing the practice of public accountancy in the state and with regional and local agencies on transportation, sustainability, and housing policy issues. She practiced law for over two decades, both in the private and the corporate sectors, with focus on antitrust, crisis management, and professional liability matters.
Renata has a JD from the University of Chicago Law School and a BSE in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University. -
Ana Lilia Soto
Youth Development Manager, Psych/Public Mental Health & Population Sciences
Current Role at StanfordYouth Development Manager
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Sarah Soule
Philip H. Knight Professor for the Dean at the Graduate School of Business, Morgridge Professor in the Graduate School of Business and Professor, by courtesy, of Sociology
BioSarah A. Soule is the Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business. Her major areas of interest are organizational theory, social movements, and political sociology. She has written two recent books, the first with Cambridge University Press, entitled Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility, and the second with Norton, called A Primer on Social Movements. She is the series editor for the Cambridge University Press Contentious Politics series. She is a member of the founding team of the new journal, Sociological Science, an open access journal that is disrupting academic publishing. She has served on a number of boards of non-profit organizations, is currently a member Board of Advisors to the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the Stanford d.school) Fellowship program, and is currently serving on the faculty advisory board to the Stanford Center for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership. She has taught a number of courses with the Stanford d.school, and is the Faculty Director for the Executive Program on Social Entrepreneurship at the Graduate School of Business. She has served as a judge for the Center for Social Innovation Fellowship program, and for the Tech Awards (Tech Museum of Innovation). Her research examines state and organizational-level policy change and diffusion, and the role social movements have on these processes. She has recently published papers on how protest impacts multi-national firm-level decisions regarding divestment in Burma, and on how advocacy organizations learn new strategies and tactics from those with which they collaborate. She is currently working on a study of how protest affects the outcomes of shareholder resolutions, and another study of how advocacy organizations innovate. She has published a book with Cambridge University Press, entitled Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility. Recent published work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, the American Sociological Review, Organizational Studies, the Strategic Management Journal, and the Annual Review of Sociology.
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Aline Rocha
INSPIRE Training Manager, Psych/Public Mental Health & Population Sciences
Current Role at StanfordINSPIRE Training Manager
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Alex Sox-Harris, PhD, MS
Professor (Research) of Surgery (Surgery Policy Improvement Research and Education Center)
On Leave from 2026-09-01 To 2026-11-15Current Research and Scholarly InterestsQuality Measurement, Predictive Modeling, Implementation Science,
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Michael Spaid
Licensing Manager, Physical Sciences, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
BioMichael joined Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) in 2024 as a Licensing Manager, Physical Sciences. He brings over 20 years of experience leading multidisciplinary teams from concept to commercialization in start-ups across biotechnology, nanotechnology, and medical devices.
Education:
BS in Chemical Engineering, Tulane University
MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
