Vice Provost and Dean of Research
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QiLiang “Q” Chen
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (Adult Pain)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on understanding the plasticity in pain-modulating circuits in pathological pain states. I started with defining a basic functional framework that links the pain-transmission system to the pain-modulation system, through which I explored the central mechanism of sensitization in chronic pain after a peripheral injury. Based on this fundamental observation, my work now focuses on investigating the pathophysiology and the role of endogenous opioids in chronic pain related to brain injury and other forms of trauma, a topic especially relevant to chronic post-traumatic pain sufferers. Clinically, I am exploring the use of advance image-guidance in pain interventions for treating complex headache and craniofacial pain. Ultimately, I hope to translate these fundamental knowledge and technologies to patient care and provide potential new therapeutic targets to help those with pain after head injury and polytrauma.
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Xiaoke Chen
Associate Professor of Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOur goal is to understand how brain circuits mediate motivated behaviors and how maladaptive changes in these circuits cause mood disorders. To achieve this goal, we focus on studying the neural circuits for pain and addiction, as both trigger highly motivated behaviors, whereas, transitioning from acute to chronic pain or from recreational to compulsive drug use involves maladaptive changes of the underlying neuronal circuitry.
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Alan G. Cheng, MD
Edward C. and Amy H. Sewall Professor in the School of Medicine, Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS) and, by courtesy, of Pediatrics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsActive Wnt signaling maintains somatic stem cells in many organ systems. Using Wnt target genes as markers, we have characterized distinct cell populations with stem cell behavior in the inner ear, an organ thought to be terminally differentiated. Ongoing work focuses on delineating the developing significance of these putative stem/progenitor cells and their behavior after damage.
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Edward C. Cheng
Affiliate, FSI
BioDr. Edward C. Cheng is a technology strategist and visionary leader. He serves as Senior Advisor and the Head of the cross-industry Safe AI Agents Coalition (saia.stanford.edu), whose members include Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, PayPal, DoorDash, PwC, Inquiryon, and others. He is also the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Chairman of Inquiryon. Previously, Edward served as Vice President of AI at Oracle NetSuite and held senior leadership roles at HP.
Edward is the lead inventor of the Log-Structured Merge Tree (LSM Tree), a foundational data structure that enables low-latency, high-throughput, and high-velocity data processing. It is widely adopted by major data management systems across the industry, including Google, Meta, X, Microsoft, Oracle, Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB, RocksDB, and many others.
His work on Safe AI Agents focuses on governance frameworks, human-centric AI principles, and multi-agent systems that align autonomous AI with democratic values and human oversight. He collaborates across academia, industry, and civil society to advance research, publish scholarly work, and help shape emerging best practices for safe and trustworthy AI agent development and deployment. He also speaks globally about the impacts and risks of AI agents and AGI with diverse communities.
Edward writes under the pen name Edward Sizhe on topics spanning faith, technology, and life purpose. His books include "AI and God," "Journey of Life or Death," "Five Questions Toward Enriching the Meaning and Purpose of Life," and "Pride and Will" available on Kindle and Amazon.
His research interests include AI agents, distributed big data systems, machine learning and deep learning, parallel search algorithms, high-performance computing, and distributed systems. He is also interested in biblical studies and archaeological evidence surrounding biblical events. Edward has published numerous scientific papers and holds multiple patents in AI, machine learning, and database systems. He previously worked with the Stanford Database Research Group and now serves as Senior Advisor and researcher at the Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab.
Edward received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of London, his master’s degree from UC Berkeley, and an MBA from Columbia University.
