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Olatunde Sobomehin
Adjunct Lecturer, GSE Faculty Affairs
BioOlatunde Sobomehin is the 2025 Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and the Stanford Accelerator for Learning. As a student at Stanford from 1998 to 2003, he held leadership positions in Alpha Phi Alpha, Nu Sigma Chapter, the NAACP, and STeP Up (Students using Technology to Empower People for United Progress), a student group he founded. He also led a public speaking course in the School of Engineering and competed on Stanford’s Top-25 Men’s Basketball team, where he was voted Most Inspirational Player (2003). Since graduating, he has taught courses through the Stanford Haas Center for Public Service and the Stanford d.school, where he also co-authored the book Creative Hustle with sam seidel.
In 2014, Olatunde co-founded StreetCode Academy, an East Palo Alto–based nonprofit that offers free technology education to communities of color. Under his leadership, StreetCode has become a national model for community-based innovation, serving more than 3,000 students annually and delivering over 50,000 hours of free instruction. His body of work has earned him recognition as a 2018 Aspen Institute Scholar, a 2019 Praxis Fellow, and a 2020 Social Entrepreneurship Fellow at Stanford University.
Most recently, he has delivered academic presentations at two international conferences: the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) Conference in Finland and the ACM Global Computing Education Conference in Botswana, where he shared hands-on strategies for advancing the social and societal impacts of computing. He frequently speaks on community-centered innovation, equity in technology education, and creative leadership, and has served as a guest lecturer in courses across engineering, education, and design.
Olatunde and his wife, Tamara, reside in East Palo Alto, CA, and are the blessed parents of four children: Olatayo and Temilola, students at Stanford University; Tatiola, a freshman at USC; and Olataiye, an eighth grader. -
Tamara Nicole Sobomehin
Teaching Asst-Graduate, LDT Learning, Design and Technology
BioTamara Nicole Sobomehin is a PhD student at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, specializing in Learning Sciences and Technology Design and Curriculum Studies & Teacher Education (Science, Engineering, and Technology), with a PhD minor in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Alongside her four amazing children and her husband, Olatunde, she centers the principles of Love and Ujima to embody the commitment to collective work and responsibility required to advance social sustainability and restorative community and school design. Her research examines joyful learning, positive design, equity in Ed|TECH|Edu, and community-rooted learning initiatives to generate scholarship and technologies that advance a praxis of care, connectedness, and creativity.
Tamara is passionate about empowering children by designing meaningful experiences that foster agentic engagement and creative confidence in their learning. She is president of the Ravenswood City School District Board of Trustees, serving her second term as an elected school board member (2018-2022; 2022-2026), and is a co-founder and the Chief Education Officer at StreetCode Academy, an award-winning tech education organization with a mission to empower communities of color with the mindsets, skills, and access to participate in the innovation ecosystem. At StreetCode Academy, Tamara creates and supervises all learning initiatives, helping community members develop creative confidence and technical skills in coding, entrepreneurship, and design.
Tamara holds a BA in Psychology and an MA in Sociology from Stanford University, and an MEd in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Texas at Arlington. -
Chloe Socha
Visiting Scholar, Communication
BioChloé Socha is a sociologist whose research examines how organizations respond to social transformations. She earned her PhD from Sciences Po Paris in 2025, where her dissertation investigated LGBT+ inclusion policies in French companies and their effects on professional regimes of gender and sexuality.
Her current research sits at the intersection of organizational sociology, gender studies, and AI governance. As “AI ethics” emerges as a distinct area of work within technology companies, think tanks, and NGOs, her work examines how the field is being professionalized and institutionalized. It focuses on the organizational positioning of AI ethics professionals within tech firms and how this position shapes how they operate. The research investigates the gender dynamics of AI ethics work, asking whether women and people from underrepresented backgrounds are disproportionately concentrated in these roles. It analyzes what this distribution reveals about organisational “inequality regimes”, and how it shapes the capacity of AI ethics teams to provoke organisational change. -
Charmaine Soco
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stem Cell Transplantation
BioChair of SURPAS-COMPASS
Community, Opportunity, Mentorship & Professional Advancement for Stanford Scholars
https://surpas.stanford.edu/about/the-surpas-leadership-team/
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Soujanya Sodavarapu, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology
BioDr. Sodavarapu is a fellowship-trained rheumatologist with Stanford Health Care. She is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Sodavarapu is board certified in internal medicine and obesity medicine.
As a rheumatologist, Dr. Sodavarapu specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of conditions that involve swelling of the joints, muscles, and internal organs. She diagnoses and treats conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus), psoriatic arthritis, Sjogren’s syndrome, and ankylosing spondylitis.
Dr. Sodavarapu has published her research in peer-reviewed journals including Biomedicines, BMJ Case Reports, and Cureus. She has also presented her research nationwide at various professional conferences and events.
Dr. Sodavarapu is a member of the American College of Physicians. -
Stacey C. Soderquist
Associate Director of Disability Resources, SoM Office of Student Services
Current Role at StanfordAssociate Director of Disability Resources School of Medicine
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Brian Soetikno
Affiliate, Ophthalmology Clinic and Education
BioBrian Soetikno grew up in Union City, CA. He received his BS in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, where he studied biomedical optics under the mentorship of Lihong Wang, PhD. In the summer of 2013, he entered the Medical Scientist (MD/PhD) Training Program at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. He completed a PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 2018 under the combined mentorship of Amani Fawzi, MD and Hao Zhang, PhD, which focused on retinal imaging. Specifically, his dissertation described advances in functional optical coherence tomography (OCT), including retinal oximetry with visible-light OCT and OCT angiography. He graduated with his MD in 2020 and joined the Stanford Ophthalmology Advance Research (SOAR) residency. Brian aspires to ultimately pursue a career in academic ophthalmology, where he hopes to combine his passion for engineering, innovation, and ocular surgery.
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Hyongsok Tom Soh
W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Electrical Engineering, Professor of Radiology (Diagnostic Sciences Laboratory) and of Bioengineering
On Partial Leave from 2026-10-01 To 2026-12-30BioDr. Soh received his B.S. with a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science with Distinction from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. From 1999 to 2003, Dr. Soh served as the technical manager of MEMS Device Research Group at Bell Laboratories and Agere Systems. He was a faculty member at UCSB before joining Stanford in 2015. His current research interests are in analytical biotechnology, especially in high-throughput screening, directed evolution, and integrated biosensors.
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Aamir Sohail
Graduate Visiting Researcher Student, Psychology
BioI am a PhD student in Psychology based at the Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH), University of Birmingham, and a Visiting Student Researcher at the Departments of Psychology and Sociology at Stanford University.
My research interests involve using experimental tasks and computational modeling to understand social decision-making in humans and AI. I am also more broadly interested in the impact of AI on society, and towards how science is conducted. -
Dimosthenis Sokaras
Div Head/SSRL Chem & Cat Div, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Current Role at StanfordDriving next-generation synchrotron science to address critical challenges in catalysis, materials innovation, and real-world energy systems. Leads SSRL energy science department efforts, advancing X-ray capabilities and cross-disciplinary programs aligned with national research priorities.
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Lynn Sokei
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
BioLynn Sokei holds a PhD in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MFA in Fiction from Arizona State University.
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Eric R. Sokol, MD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Gynecology and Gynecologic Specialties/Urogynecology) and, by courtesy, of Urology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research is focused on the development and testing of novel minimally invasive treatment modalities for complex pelvic floor disorders.
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Elsa Sola
Instructor, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCirrhosis is a common condition and is associated with recurrent complications. Therapeutic options are limited and the management of complications has been similar for the past decades. The only definitive treatment is liver transplantation; however, this is limited by the number of organs and the risk of complications on the waiting list. Patients with cirrhosis present with profound immune disturbances, but to date there are no therapeutic strategies to restore immune responses.
Dr Sola’s research interest if focused on understanding the mechanisms of immune dysfunction in cirrhosis to guide the development of future therapeutic options. With her research background in Hepatology and Immunology, Dr Sola is using novel techniques to improve the understanding of cirrhosis progression. She is leveraging her skills in human organoids to develop cirrhosis-derived immune organoids as a platform for investigating mechanisms of immune dysfunction and screening new therapeutic options. -
Guillermo Solano-Flores
Professor of Education
On Leave from 2026-10-01 To 2026-12-31Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCurrent research projects examine academic language and testing, formative assessment practices for culturally diverse science classrooms, and the design and use of illustrations in international test comparisons and in the testing of English language learners.
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Cristian Felipe Soler Reyes
COLLEGE Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
BioCristian Felipe Soler Reyes received a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Studies from Stanford University in 2023. His research looks at different Latin American art forms (painting, sculpture, cinema, literature, etc.) from the last 30 years with a transnational, cross-cultural, and transdisciplinary lens.
Cristian also created and chairs the research group “Comics: More than Words,” which has become a hub for interdisciplinary thought and for diversity. Students from different backgrounds come together in this space to learn from each other and to share their different perspectives. -
Olav Solgaard
Audrey S. Hancock Professor in the School of Engineering
BioThe Solgaard group focus on design and fabrication of nano-photonics and micro-optical systems. We combine photonic crystals, optical meta-materials, silicon photonics, and MEMS, to create efficient and reliable systems for communication, sensing, imaging, and optical manipulation.
