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  • Caroline Figueroa, MD PhD

    Caroline Figueroa, MD PhD

    Affiliate, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
    Visiting Scholar, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics

    BioCaroline Figueroa, MD, PhD, is a visiting scholar at Stanford University. She is the 2025–26 Dutch Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice. She is an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands, where she leads the Research on Inclusive Solutions and Empowerment in Digital Health (RISE) group. Her work focuses on making digital mental health solutions — such as apps and AI-chatbots — safe, effective, and accessible, particularly for adolescents, young adults, and women. Figueroa’s research on digital health equity has directly informed policy documents by global organizations such as the World Health Organization and the United Nations, and has been published in leading journals including Lancet Digital Health, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and Human Brain Mapping.

    Figueroa is a medical doctor with a PhD in the neuroscience of depression from the University of Amsterdam and the University of Oxford; she also has several years of experience in clinical psychiatry. Before joining TU Delft, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

  • Christian Figueroa

    Christian Figueroa

    Undergraduate, History

    BioChristian Figueroa is a political communications professional based in Southern California.

    He is currently a campaign aide to Congressman Derek Tran and previously held communications roles with U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and the California Democratic Party.

    At 13 years old, Christian found his passion in politics through grassroots community organizing leading up to the 2020 presidential election. In 2024, he was one of the youngest delegates to the Democratic National Convention representing California.

    Christian studies history at Stanford University, specializing in early colonial America, and serves on the executive board of the California Democratic Party. He enjoys hiking, traveling, and watching history documentaries in his free time.

  • Marcos Figueroa

    Marcos Figueroa

    Access Service Specialist, School of Medicine - Lane Medical Library

    Current Role at StanfordStanford University - School of Medicine - Lane Medical Library
    Library Specialist-Circulation Evening Supervisor; Bills & Fines Coordinator

  • Richard Fikes

    Richard Fikes

    Professor (Research) of Computer Science, Emeritus

    BioRichard Fikes has a long and distinguished record as an innovative leader in the development of techniques for effectively representing and using knowledge in computer systems. He is best known as co-developer of the STRIPS automatic planning system, KIF (Knowledge Interchange Format), the Ontolingua ontology representation language and Web-based ontology development environment, the OKBC (Open Knowledge Base Connectivity) API for knowledge servers, and IntelliCorp's KEE system. At Stanford, he led projects focused on developing large-scale distributed repositories of computer-interpretable knowledge, collaborative development of multi-use ontologies, enabling technology for the Semantic Web, reasoning methods applicable to large-scale knowledge bases, and knowledge-based technology for intelligence analysts. He was principal investigator of major projects for multiple Federal Government agencies including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Intelligence Community’s Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA).