Stanford University
Showing 651-700 of 808 Results
-
Mengye Zhu
Social Science Research Scholar, Doerr School; Senior Scientist, NatCap
BioDr. Mengye Zhu (she/her) is a Senior Scientist at the Natural Capital Alliance and a Social Science Research Scholar at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Her research is focused on climate and environmental policy and political economy, with a particular emphasis on the science–policy interface. She examines key climate discourses, including energy transitions and methane mitigation, with special attention to the roles of “keystone actors,” such as state-owned enterprises. Her work also combines policy analysis with sectoral technical assessments, including leading the development of Global Methane Abatement Solutions Tracker (G-MAST). She has extensive policy engagement experience, supporting high-level climate and environmental dialogues and advancing international collaboration. Before joining Stanford, she worked as an Assistant Research Professor and China Program Co-Director at the Center for Global Sustainability, University of Maryland. She received a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Tsinghua University and a Master's in Public Administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
-
Rebecca Zhu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychology
BioI am a postdoctoral fellow in developmental psychology at Stanford University, working with Michael C. Frank. Previously, I was a PhD candidate and postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Alison Gopnik, and a lab manager at Harvard University, working with Susan Carey.
My research investigates when and how children acquire, and consequently learn from, symbolic systems such as language and pictures. In one line of research, I investigate the mechanisms underlying children’s acquisition of various kinds of non-literal language, such as metaphor and metonymy, as well as how children’s non-literal language comprehension may further guide their thinking and reasoning. In another line of research, I work with urban and rural Kenyan children to investigate the efficacy of picture-based learning materials and the validity of picture-based assessments across cultures and contexts. My work in Kenya is conducted in close collaboration with researchers and non-profit organizations in Kisumu, Mombasa, and Nairobi.
This research program is innovative and interdisciplinary: these findings not only address fundamental debates in psychology, philosophy, and linguistics (i.e., by providing empirical insight into the mechanisms underlying children’s ability to acquire and learn from symbolic systems), but also have direct implications for applied research in education, public health, and developmental economics (i.e., by improving the learning materials and assessment tools used in global early childhood development programs). -
Wenjuan Zhu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Institute
BioPostdoctoral Fellow
-
Yihong Zhu
Ph.D. Student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, admitted Summer 2025
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsReduction Order Modeling, Fluid Mechanics, Applied Mathematics
-
Ying Zhu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
BioDr. Ying Zhu is a postdoctoral scholar in the Rosen Lab at Stanford University in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition. She received her PhD in 2023 from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Her research studied the role of intestinal Acyl-CoA long-chain synthetase 5 in diet-induced obesity using inducible transgenic mouse model. Within the Rosen Lab, Dr. Zhu is focusing on intestine epithelial metabolic dysfunction in pediatric IBDs and chronic intestinal inflammation.
-
Richard Zhuang
Masters Student in Computer Science, admitted Autumn 2025
BioI’m broadly interested in understanding and improving the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in a data-centric way. Specifically, I’m intrigued by how certain data “foster” skills that are essential for LLM agents (e.g. reasoning and planning). I have also had a long-standing passion in Sports Analytics. Outside the realm of AI, you will usually find me playing basketball!
-
Peter Ziebelman
Lecturer
BioPeter Ziebelman has enjoyed teaching entrepreneurship to students, start-up founders, as well as C-level executives at larger profit and non-profit corporations.
Peter started his career as a venture capitalist over 30 years ago.
He co-founded Palo Alto Venture Partners in 1996, a venture firm focussed on very early stage technology investments. Peter has served on the boards of early stage companies that ultimately became public companies, such as AvantGo (AVGO), Persistence (PRSW) and Vicinity (VCNT).
Peter has also served on the boards of dozens of privately held high technology companies across a range of sectors from cloud based computing (DemandForce) to calendaring (When.com) to online car insurance (esurance) to security (PostX). He is also an independent director to a select number of privately held companies. Many of those start-ups were students who graduated from the GSB.
Peter was named to AlwaysOn’s Venture Capital 100 – the top 100 VC’s for 2012.
Peter started his career in sales and sales management with the Semiconductor Group at Texas Instruments. He later became the business products manager at a venture backed software start-up – Ryan-McFarland (now MicroFocus, Plc).
Peter has served on the board of the National Council on Aging (www.NCOA.org) and he is on the advisory board of the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford. He is a past president of the Yale Club of Silicon Valley.
Peter received a Bachelor of Science in Combined Sciences (with honors and distinction in the major) from Yale University in 1978, a Master of Science in Management from the Stanford GSB in 1987.
Peter and his wife, Cindy, live in Palo Alto and they have three sons.
