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Postdoctoral Scholars

Our postdocs are extraordinary and interdisciplinary

The Wu Tsai Stanford Neurosciences Institute Interdisciplinary Scholar Awards program funds postdoctoral scientists for two years and provides valuable career training.

Ernie Hwaun

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Neurosurgery
Ernie Hwaun works as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery in the School of Medicine under the supervision of Prof. Ivan Soltesz.
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Claire Baum

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
As a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Professor E.J.
Logan Cross

Logan Cross

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Computer Science
Logan Cross is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science under the joint supervision of Prof. Dan Yamins and Prof. Nick Haber. His research combines interdisciplinary approaches to understand how intelligence emerges in humans and machines.
Darrel Deo

Darrel Deo

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Neurosurgery
Darrel Deo is a neural engineer developing prosthetic devices to help restore movement and communication to people with paralysis via brain-computer interfaces. Darrel received his B.S. degree in Robotics Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2013.
Elizabeth Dupre

Elizabeth DuPre

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Psychology
Elizabeth DuPre is a psychologist and computational neuroscientist developing methods to characterize complex, naturalistic cognition in health and disease. As a postdoctoral fellow with Prof.

Isaac Kauvar

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholar
Graduate School of Education
Isaac Kauvar is neuroscientist and engineer interested in how animals construct and deploy models of the world. As a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Nick Haber, he is interested in advancing curiosity-driven algorithms to investigate how animals and robots explore.
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Mable Lam

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Neurosurgery
Mable is studying the mechanisms of myelination as a postdoctoral fellow in laboratory of Dr. Brad Zuchero. She graduated from Amherst College as a Chemistry major and received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
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Matt McCoy

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Pathology
Matt McCoy is a postdoctoral fellow advised by Prof. Andrew Fire at Stanford University School of Medicine. Matt earned a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Utah in 2011, and a PhD in Molecular Genetics and Genomics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018.
Christopher Miranda

Christopher Miranda

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Bioengineering
Christopher Miranda is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor Mark Schnitzer where he is developing optical imaging technologies to probe the behavior of neurons in the mouse brain. With these newly developed tools, he aims to unravel longstanding mysteries of the basal ganglia.
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Amy Nippert

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Anesthesia
Amy Nippert is a neuroscientist working to develop new therapeutics for chronic pain. She is working as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Vivianne Tawfik to determine glial contributions to chronic pain.
Zihao Ou

Zihao Ou

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Zihao is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Materials Science and Engineering department at Stanford University. His work in Prof.

Caitlyn Seim

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Seim works at the intersection of computing devices and the body, aiming to define new methods in healthcare and human augmentation.  Her background is in electrical engineering, which enables her to design physical computing devices and hardware.  During her Ph.D.
Mengyuan Xu

Mengyuan Xu

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Mengyuan’s research mainly focuses on determining the structures of CLC family proteins to further understand their transport mechanism in laboratory of Dr. Merritt Maduke. She received her Ph.D. in Department of Pharmacology from Case Western Reserve University with Dr. Derek Taylor. Her Ph.D.
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Renzhi Yang

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Renzhi Yang is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Nirao Shah. His research aims to understand the neuronal and genetic mechanisms regulating male reproductive behaviors. Renzhi received B.S.
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Jiwon Yeon

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Psychology
Jiwon Yeon is a postdoctoral fellow advised by Dr. Justin Gardner at Stanford University in Psychology. Jiwon earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2021 (advised by Dr.
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David Zoltowski

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Statistics
David Zoltowski is a computational neuroscientist who is broadly interested in statistical methods for analyzing neural data and probabilistic machine learning.