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Xingyuan Zhang
Ph.D. Student in Chemistry, admitted Autumn 2023
Ph.D. Minor, Computer ScienceBioPhD candidate in Chemistry and Computer Science, Wu Tsai Neurosciences and Sarafan ChEM-H Institute at Stanford University. Working on scientific machine learning, biomolecular modeling, and protein design for drug discovery and disease modeling.
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Yanhua Zheng
Lecturer, Language Ctr
BioYanhua Zheng is a native Cantonese Speaker with more than 10 years of experience in education. She immigrated to the US in 2014 and received her combined B.A. and Masters in Chinese from San Francisco State University, one of the nations top-ranked Chinese language programs. She now lives in Palo Alto with her son and her husband. Yanhua is also an avid reader, writer, and artist.
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Xueguang Zhou
Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Economic Development and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInstitutional changes in contemporary Chinese society.
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Yiqun Zhou
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and, by courtesy, of Classics
BioResearch Areas:
- The Chinese family
- Comparative study of antiquity
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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). -
Mike Ziebel
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
BioMike Ziebel is an assistant professor in the department of chemistry at Stanford University. The Ziebel research group works at the interface of chemistry, physics, and materials science, focusing on using understanding of local electronic structure in inorganic solid-state materials to identify and synthesize new compounds hosting unconventional electronic and magnetic ground states. In particular, the group leverages manipulation techniques developed by the 2D materials community—namely the ability to stack, twist, and strain van der Waals materials near the few-layer limit—as a new design parameter to access electronic and magnetic behavior that would be inaccessible using conventional synthetic tools. By combining these methods with local structural and electronic probes, as well as bulk property measurements, the group works towards its ultimate goal to achieve on-demand control of lattice, charge, and spin degrees of freedom in quantum materials, for the development of more energy-efficient electrical and magnetic devices.
Prior to joining Stanford, Prof. Ziebel was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, working jointly between the labs of Xavier Roy and Cory Dean to study correlated electron phases in new two-dimensional materials. He received his B.A. in chemistry from Northwestern University, where he pursued the synthesis of molecular electron donors for organic photovoltaic devices with Prof. Samuel Stupp, and his PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked with Prof. Jeff Long on electrically conductive metal–organic frameworks. -
Edith Zink
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Political Science
BioI am an political economist studying social exclusion. I will be visiting post-doc at the Department of Political Science at Stanford for the fall 2025, from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. With my research, I want to continue to contribute to a better understanding of the social fabric of our societies. Currently, I work on an interdisciplinary research agenda together political scientists and psychologists, to study the social and economic integration of Ukrainian refugees in Denmark.
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Steven Zipperstein
The Daniel E. Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and History
BioSteven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He has also taught at universities in Russia, Poland, France, and Israel; for six years, he taught at Oxford University. For sixteen years he was Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford.
He is the author and editor of nine books including The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History (1986, winner of the Smilen Prize for the Outstanding book in Jewish history); Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha’am and the Origins of Zionism (1993, winner of the National Jewish Book Award); Imagining Russian Jewry (1999); and Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing (2008, shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Award in Biography, Autobiography and Memoir). His work has been translated into Russian, Hebrew, and French. His most recent book, Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History, published by Liveright/WW Norton, (2018 ) was shortlisted as the best non-fiction book of the year by the Mark Lytton Prize, named as a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and a Book of the Year by "The Economist, "Ha-Aretz" and "Mosaic Magazine. Widely reviewed, Pogrom inspired the 2019 novel The Adventures of the Peculiar Protocols by Nicolas Meyer, and several plays now in production. He is currently at work on a biography of Philip Roth for Yale's Jewish Lives. Zipperstein’s articles have appeared in The New York Times Sunday Book Review, the Washington Post, The New Republic, the Jewish Review of Books, Chronicle of Higher Education and elsewhere.
Zipperstein has served as editor of the journal Jewish Social Studies for twenty years, and the book series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture for a quarter of a century. Currently, together with Anita Shapira, he is series editor of the award-winning Yale University Press/Leon Black Foundation Jewish Lives series which has, to date, published nearly sixty books. Zipperstein is the immediate past Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History. His PhD students now teach at dozens of universities here, and abroad, including the University of Chicago, UCLA, Queens College, CUNY, Yeshiva College, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Northwestern, University of Florida, Gainsville, and elsewhere.
Zipperstein's contributions to the field have been recognized by the Leviant Prize of the Modern Language Association, the Judah Magnes Gold Medal of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, and the Koret Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the American Jewish community. He has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Yitzhak Rabin Institute in Tel Aviv, and has twice been a Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sciences Sociales. In spring 2014, he was the first Jacob Kronhill Scholar at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, in New York.
In 2022, he won the Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Education. In 2023, Zipperstein was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. -
Alfred Zong
Assistant Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
BioI am an assistant professor in the Departments of Physics and of Applied Physics, and my group focuses on the study of light-induced non-equilibrium phenomena in quantum materials. To capture the ultrafast dynamics on the nanoscale, we develop a variety of techniques such as ultrafast electron diffraction and microscopy, attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy, and coherent diffraction imaging. These time-resolved probes are integrated with a complex sample environment such as in-situ strain and electrostatic gating in order to design, discover, and understand non-equilibrium phases of quantum materials.
We are seeking motivated undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs to join the group. Please email me directly to discuss opportunities.
For more details, check out the group website at https://zonglab.stanford.edu/ -
Emily Yu Zong
Visiting Scholar, East Asian Languages and Cultures
BioEmily Yu Zong (cited name: Zong, Emily Yu) works across environmental humanities, critical migration studies, and posthumanist theory to examine how migrant and diasporic cultural imaginations reshape understandings of climate change and planetary social thought. Drawing on both scholarly analysis and creative practice, she engages how literature, film, and new media technologies contribute to collaborative survival with the more-than-human earth.
Her work is informed by lived experience across Australia, China, and Hong Kong and attends to the crossovers and tensions between colonial powers, Indigenous knowledges, and migrant placemaking. Across these contexts, she develops a research agenda centered on feminist, queer, anti-racist, and decolonial thought and the expansion of migrant cosmopolitics and hybrid ecologies as pathways to multispecies flourishing.
She is the author of Planetarity from Below: Decolonial Ecopoetics of Migration and Diaspora (University of Michigan Press, 2026) and co-editor of a double special issue on Decolonial Asian Diasporic Ecocriticism, forthcoming in Ariel (2026, 57: 3-4). Her work has appeared in journals including Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Journal of Australian Studies, LIT, Journal of Intercultural Studies, as well as the edited volume, The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel.
Alongside her academic research, she develops practice-based projects that bring together environmental storytelling, health humanities, and sensory and immersive media. Her exhibitions and collaborative works include Waterborne 水生 (2022), a climate art exhibition and publication on water and ocean waste; Bovine Calling 喚 / 幻牛 (2023), a virtual reality film and exhibition on free-foaming cows and water buffalo in Hong Kong; Thus, Soil 故土 (2024), an exhibition exploring soil poetics and ecological affect, and Healing Atmospheres (2026), a virtual reality film developed in collaboration with healthcare practitioners that explores sensory environments of care and disability.
She is currently working on two projects: one on the decolonial blue humanities in ocean literature and media, and another on weather and heat imaginations among migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong in the context of climate adaptation. -
Tijana Zrnic
Assistant Professor of Statistics, of Management Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science
BioTijana Zrnic is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University, jointly appointed between Statistics, Management Science & Engineering, and, by courtesy, Computer Science. She works on foundational questions in machine learning, statistics, and data-driven decision-making. Example topics of interest include AI-assisted statistical inference and data collection, performative prediction, and studying selection bias.
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Dafna Zur
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature
BioDafna Zur is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. She teaches courses on Korean literature, cinema, and popular culture. Her book, Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea (Stanford University Press, 2017), traces the affective investments and coded aspirations made possible by children’s literature in colonial and postcolonial Korea. She is working on a new project on moral education in science and literary youth magazines in postwar North and South Korea. She has published articles on North Korean science fiction, the Korean War in North and South Korean children’s literature, childhood in cinema, and Korean popular culture. Her translations of Korean fiction have appeared in wordwithoutborders.org, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Short Stories, and the Asia Literary Review.
