BIOENGINEERING - Key Persons


Addy Bareiss

Job Titles:
  • Research Finance Administrator
  • Research Finance Administrator 3

Akif Ertas

Job Titles:
  • Research Finance Administrator
  • Research Finance Administrator 2

Akshay Maheshwari

Job Titles:
  • Student
  • Student, Expected Graduation Spring 2023

Alexa Wnorowski

Job Titles:
  • Student
  • Student in Bioengineering, Admitted Autumn 2015
Education Master of Arts, Stanford University, ED-MA (2021) Master of Science, Stanford University, BIOE-MS (2017) Bachelor of Science, Cornell University, Bioengineering (2015)

Alison Marsden

Alison Marsden is the Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of cardiovascular disease in the departments of Pediatrics, Bioengineering, and, by courtesy, Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. From 2007-2015 she was a faculty member in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of California San Diego. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University in 1998, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford in 2005 working with Prof. Parviz Moin. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in Bioengineering and Pediatric Cardiology from 2005-07 working with Charles Taylor and Jeffrey Feinstein. She was the recipient of a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface in 2007, an NSF CAREER award in 2011. She is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the American Physical Society, and the Biomedical Engineering Society. She received the UCSD graduate student association faculty mentor award in 2014 and MAE department teaching award at UCSD in 2015 and the Van C. Mow Medal from the ASME in 2023. She has published over 160 peer reviewed journal papers, and has received funding from the NSF, NIH, and several private foundations. She is currently on the editorial boards of several leading journals in biomechanics and computational biology. Her work focuses on the development of numerical methods for cardiovascular blood flow simulation, medical device design, application of optimization to large-scale fluid mechanics simulations, and application of engineering tools to impact patient care in cardiovascular surgery and congenital heart disease. Education BSE, Princeton University, Mechanical Engineering (1998) MSE, Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering (2000) PhD, Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering (2005)

Amanda Espinoza

Job Titles:
  • Laboratory Operations Manager
  • Laboratory Operations Manager, Program - Fischbach, M

Amit Kaushal

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor
Amit Kaushal, MD, PhD is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine (Stanford-VA) and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. Dr. Kaushal's work spans clinical medicine, teaching, research, and industry. He helped launch Stanford School of Engineering's undergraduate major in Biomedical Computation (bmc.stanford.edu) and has served as long-time director of the major. The major has graduated over 70 students since inception and was recently featured in Nature (https://go.nature.com/2P2UnRu). His research interests are in utilizing health data in novel and ethical ways to improve the practice of medicine. He is a faculty executive member of Stanford's Partnership for AI-Assisted Care (aicare.stanford.edu). Recently, he has also been working with public health agencies to improve scale and speed of contact tracing for COVID-19. He has previously held executive and advisory roles at startups working at the interface of technology and healthcare. He continues to practice as an academic hospitalist. Dr. Kaushal completed his BS (Biomedical Computation), MD, PhD (Biomedical Informatics), and residency training at Stanford. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics. Education Residency, Stanford University, Internal Medicine PhD, Stanford University, Biomedical Informatics MD, Stanford University BS, Stanford University, Biomedical Computation

Ana Guerrero

Job Titles:
  • Adm Assoc 4

Anesta Kothari

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Life Science Research Professional

Annelise E. Barron

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
Annelise E. Barron is the W.M. Keck Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. The broad theme of the Barron lab is the study and biomimicry of natural host defense peptides (antimicrobial peptides). We study the molecular biophysics and mechanisms of LL-37-a centrally important human host defense peptide-and its involvement in Alzheimer's dementia (via LL-37 dysregulation and degradation by pathogen virulence factors). Alzheimer's dementia can be caused by (or at least, accompanied by) polymicrobial cerebral infections, a phenomenon receiving renewed attention given recent discoveries. We are also working to develop biostable peptoid mimics of LL-37 as therapeutics that can combat antibiotic-resistant infections, especially cerebral infections, ear infections, and sinus / lung infections. Finally, we work to mimic lung surfactant proteins to facilitate delivery of therapeutics to the lungs, treat bacterial and viral pneumonia, or prevent or prevent ventilator-associated lung injury. Dr. Barron is a chemical and biological engineer. She was trained in chemical engineering at the University of Washington (B.S.) and U.C. Berkeley (Ph.D., under the mentorship of Prof. Harvey W. Blanch), and was a Pharmaceutical Chemistry postdoc with Prof. Ken A. Dill (UCSF) and Dr. Ronald N. Zuckermann (Chiron Corp.). She has served on the faculty at Stanford since 2007, and prior to that, served on the Chemical & Biological Engineering faculty of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL for 10 years (1997-2007). Dr. Barron has been awarded the NIH Pioneer Award (2020), the Oskar Fischer Award (2022), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE) through NIH / NHGRI (1999), the Beckman Young Investigator Award (1999), and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1998), among other awards. Dr. Barron was the youngest scientist ever to serve on the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Director of the NIH, under Dr. Elias Zerhouni. She has more than 177 publications and a current H-index of 50 (Web of Science, All Databases), and serves on the advisory boards of several biotechnology companies. She is proud to be 1/4 Quechua (the Native American people of Bolivia), 1/4 Hispanic, 1/4 Swedish, 1/4 English, and 100% American.

Annette Kosterman Ewanich

Job Titles:
  • Casual - Non - Exempt

Bo Wang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and, by Courtesy, Developmental Biology
We are a discovery-driven research group working at the interface between developmental biology, bioengineering, and statistical physics. We combine quantitative organism-wide fluorescence imaging, functional genomics, and physical modeling to understand the fundamental rules that control collective cell behaviors to optimize tissue regeneration, adaptation, and evolution.

Brandon Seale

Job Titles:
  • Adm Assoc 3

Brian A. Hargreaves

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Radiology ( Radiological Sciences Laboratory ) and, by Courtesy, of Electrical Engineering and
Dr. Hargreaves is Professor of Radiology, focusing on body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology development and application, especially breast, abodominal and musculoskeletal applications. He completed his PhD at Stanford University in Electrical Engineering before moving to the Radiology Department in 2005. He directs the Body MRI research group, and co-directs the IMMERS lab which applies mixed-reality visualization to medical applications. Current specific projects include non-contrast breast MRI screening, rapid quantitative knee MRI, and improved MRI near metallic implants, as well as interventional guidance for breast and orthopedic surgery. In addition to research, Dr. Hargreaves teaches two graduate level courses, and lectures in numerous other courses at Stanford. He is a Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Education Ph.D., Stanford University, Electrical Engineering (2001) M.S., Stanford University, Electrical Engineering (1997) B.A.Sc, Simon Fraser University, Engineering Science (1994)

Brian Caliando

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Senior Basic Life Research Scientist

Bruce Daniel

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Radiology ( Body Imaging ) and, by Courtesy
  • Professor of Radiology ( Body Imaging ) and, by Courtesy, of Bioengineering / Education

Cara Welker

Job Titles:
  • Student
  • Student in Bioengineering, Admitted Autumn 2015

Carly Magnolia Buckholz

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Graduate Affairs

Christina Smolke

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor

Cynthia Delacruz

Job Titles:
  • Director of Operations, CNC

D. H. Chen

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

David Camarillo

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Bioengineering and, by Courtesy, of Neurosurgery

Dennis R Carter

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus

Devyn James

Job Titles:
  • Adm Assoc 3

Diane Bush

Job Titles:
  • Adm Assoc 4

Douglas Michael Ackermann

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor

Dr. Craig S. Levin

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Radiology ( Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford / Nuclear Medicine ) and, by Courtesy, of Physics, of Electrical Engineering and
Dr. Craig S. Levin is a Professor of Radiology and, by Courtesy, of Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Bioengineering at Stanford. He is a founding member of the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, and Principal Investigator and Director of the NIH-NCI funded T32 Stanford Molecular Imaging Scholars postdoctoral training program. He received his M.S., M.Phil, and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Yale University. An internationally recognized researcher in the field of molecular imaging he has nearly 200 peer-reviewed publications and 40 patents awarded or pending. He directs a 20-member laboratory that explores new concepts in instrumentation and software algorithms for molecular imaging, introduces these new tools into clinical and pre-clinical imaging studies of cancer, heart disease and neurological disorders, and partners with industry to disseminate some of these technologies into products used for patient care throughout the world. To support his research, he has generated substantial NIH funding as Principal Investigator in addition to numerous grants from other government, industry, and private institutions. He lectured in a Nobel symposium in 2007, and was elected into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering's College of Fellows and was given the Academy of Radiology Research Distinguished Investigator Recognition Award. Education Ph.D., Yale University, Physics (1993) M.Phil., Yale University, Physics (1987) M.S., Yale University, Physics (1987)

Drew Endy

Job Titles:
  • and Senior Fellow, by Courtesy, at the Hoover Institution

Emilia Alex

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Department Management Team
  • Faculty Affairs Administrator

Emma Lundberg

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Bioengineering and of Pathology, Starting Jan 2022

Eric Appel

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Senior Fellow

Eric Michael Giudice

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Affairs Officer / Finance

Evelyn Holst

Job Titles:
  • Research Finance Administrator

Fan Yang

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and

Gabe Reder

Job Titles:
  • Student

Gordon Miller Saul

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor

Hawa Racine Thiam

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Heidi Arjes

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Basic Life Science Research Associate

Helen Dang

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Department Management Team
  • Science Program Manager

Hyongsok Tom Soh

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Radiology ( Early Detection ), of Electrical Engineering, of Bioengineering and, by Courtesy, of Chemical Engineering

James H. Clark

Job Titles:
  • Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering and

James Wall

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Surgery ( Pediatric Surgery ) and, by Courtesy

Jan Liphardt

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Jasmine Desiderio

Job Titles:
  • Lab Operations Administrator, Prakash Lab and Wang Lab

Jeffrey A. Feinstein

Job Titles:
  • Dunlevie Family Professor of Pulmonary Vascular Disease and Professor, by Courtesy

Jennifer Brophy

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Jennifer Gucwa

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Associate

Jennifer Hicks

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director
  • Research Staff Member

Jennifer R. Cochran

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Vice Provost for Research, Addie and Al Macovski Professor, Professor of Bioengineering and, by Courtesy, of Chemical Engineering

Jesus Gerardo Galaz Montoya

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Basic Life Research Scientist

Jin Hyung Lee

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Neurology, of Neurosurgery and of Bioengineering and, by Courtesy, of Electrical Engineering

Joanne Au

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Associate 3

Johanna O'Day

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Program Manager - Education and Communications

Joseph Yapyuco

Job Titles:
  • Adm Assoc 3

Joshua Makower

Job Titles:
  • Yock Family Professor and Professor

Joy Ku

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Research Technical Manager

Katayoon Atabakhsh

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Life Science Research Professional

Katy Bechler

Job Titles:
  • Director of Student & Academic Services

Kayla Jimenez

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Department Management Team

KC Huang

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Bioengineering and of Microbiology and Immunology

Kenneth Fong

Job Titles:
  • Kenneth Fong Professor and Professor of Bioengineering, of Genetics, of Medicine ( General Medical Discipline ), of Biomedical Data Science and, by Courtesy, of Computer Science

Kim Butts Pauly

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Radiology ( Radiological Sciences Lab ) and, by Courtesy, of Electrical Engineering and

Kimberly Chin

Job Titles:
  • Administrator

Kwabena Boahen

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Bioengineering, of Electrical Engineering and, by Courtesy, of Computer Science

Lacramioara Bintu

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Lauren Watkins

Job Titles:
  • Student

Lee Otterson

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Lee Otterson Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering, of Applied Physics and, by courtesy, of Physics

Linny Le

Job Titles:
  • Finance Manager

Loza Tadesse

Job Titles:
  • Student

Madelyn Bernstein

Job Titles:
  • Academic Affairs Coordinator

Manu Prakash

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Senior Fellow

Marissa B. Rodriguez

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Services Manager

Mark A. Skylar-Scott

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Markus Covert

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Bioengineering and, by Courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology

Marlys LeSene

Job Titles:
  • Program Director, Communications & Initiatives

Matthias Garten

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and

Megan J. Palmer

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor

Michael Christopher Jewett

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Michael Fischbach

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Michael Lin

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Neurobiology, of Bioengineering and, by Courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology

Michaelle Ntala Mayalu

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by Courtesy

Nancy B. Nguyen

Job Titles:
  • Research Finance Administrator

Narges Baniasadi

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor

Norbert Pelc

Job Titles:
  • Boston Scientific Applied Biomedical Engineering Professor and Professor of Radiology, Emeritus

Norman E. Shumway

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and, by Courtesy

Olgalydia Winegar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Department Management Team
  • Director of Finance and Operations / Department Operations

Paul Nuyujukian

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Neurosurgery and, by Courtesy, of Electrical Engineering

Polly Fordyce

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics

Possu Huang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Prashanth Srinivasan

Job Titles:
  • Student

Rebecca Konte

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Graphic Designer & Artist

Robert Bosch - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Robert Jones

Job Titles:
  • Research Staff Member
  • Senior Research Engineer

Rogelio Hernández-López

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Genetics

Russ B. Altman

Job Titles:
  • Kenneth Fong Professor and Professor of Bioengineering, of Genetics, of Medicine ( General Medical Discipline ), of Biomedical Data Science and, by Courtesy, of Computer Science

Sarah Heilshorn

Job Titles:
  • Director, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials ( GLAM ), Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and, by Courtesy, of Bioengineering and of Chemical Engineering

Sean Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Operations Coordinator / Student Services

Sindy Kam-Yan Tang

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Senior Fellow
  • Professor

Steve Collins

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by Courtesy

Steven Leung

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Suzy Emerson

Job Titles:
  • Engineering 2019

Tiffany Murray

Job Titles:
  • Executive Associate to Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD & Teri E. Klein

Todd Coleman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Bioengineering and, by Courtesy, of Electrical Engineering

Uday Naga Kumar

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff - Hourly - CSL

Wah Chiu

Job Titles:
  • Wallenberg - Bienenstock Professor and Professor of Bioengineering and of Microbiology and Immunology

Walter B Reinhold - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Walter B Reinhold Professor in the School of Engineering, Robert Bosch Chair of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering

Whitney Combes

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant, Affiliate

Wu Tsai

Job Titles:
  • Director
Director, Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Stanford, James H. Clark Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering, of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Orthopaedic Surgery

Yunzhi Peter Yang

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and, by Courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering and

Zev Bryant

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Bioengineering and, by Courtesy, of Structural Biology