People

Raag Airan MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Radiology (Neuroimaging and Neurointerventions) and,
by courtesy, Materials Science & Engineering and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Faculty Fellow, ChEM-H program; Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute & BioX program

Residency and Fellowship, Johns Hopkins
MD and PhD in Bioengineering, Stanford
SB in Physics & Mathematics, MIT

rairan at stanford.edu

Research Staff

Mahaveer Prasad Purohit, PhD

Research Scientist, mpurohit at stanford.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
PhD in Chemical Sciences,  AcSIR, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow (UP), India
MSc in Forensic Science, Dr. HS Gaur University, Sagar (MP), India
BSc in Forensic Science (honors), Pt. RS University, Raipur (CG), India

Yun (Ralph) Xiang, PhD

Senior Research Scientist, xiangyu3 at stanford.edu      
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto
PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Clemson University 

 

Postdocs

Payton Martinez, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, paymarti at stanford.edu
PhD in Biomedical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder
MS in Biomedical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder
BS in Biomedical Engineering (Honors), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Kenneth Shinozuka, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, kenshino at stanford.edu
PhD in Psychiatry, University of Oxford
BA in Neuroscience, Harvard University

Masataka Wada, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, mwada at stanford.edu
PhD in Medicine, Keio University
MD, Keio University

 

Graduate Students

Matine Azadian, PhD

MD Candidate, matine at stanford.edu
PhD in Neuroscience, Stanford University
MA in Social Science, University of California at Irvine
BA in Anthropology, University of California at Irvine

Sedona Ewbank

PhD Candidate in Neuroscience, snewbank at stanford.edu
BSc in Neurobiology and Biochemistry, University of Washington

Alexander Hart

PhD Candidate in Chemistry, alexhart at stanford.edu
BS in Chemistry, University of California at Irvine

John Layton, MS

MD Candidate, jflayton at stanford.edu
MS in Community Health and Prevention Research, Stanford University
BA in Political Science, University of Washington

             

Brenda Yu, PhD

MD Candidate, brendayu at stanford.edu
PhD in Biophysics, Stanford University
BS in Biological Sciences, University of California-Merced
BA in Psychology, University of California-Merced

 

Undergraduate Students

Lily Amaturo

BS student in Human Biology, lamaturo at stanford.edu

           

Rishabh Ranjan

BS student in Biomedical Computation, rranjan2 at stanford.edu

           

Eujeong Choi

BS student in Human Biology, eujeong at stanford.edu

           

Sonia Dwivedi

BA student in Neuroscience and Philosophy at Dartmouth University, sonia.r.dwivedi.28 at dartmouth.edu

           

 

Administrative Staff

Mario Landeros Wences

Administrative Associate, marlan27 at stanford.edu

   

             

Alumni           

Gabriella Muwanga, PhD
Graduate Student, 2020-2025
Current: IP Prosecutor, Morrison & Foerster

Panpan Ma, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-2025

Kanchan Sinha Roy, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2025
Current: Research Scientist, Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of Louisville

Dev Gopal
Undergraduate Researcher, 2001-2023

Tenzing Kalsang
Undergraduate Researcher, 2001-2025

Eric Markarian
Undergraduate Researcher, 2022-2025

Nicholas Macedo
Undergraduate Researcher, 2001-2024

Lydia Sun
Radiological Sciences Laboratory REU, 2024

Owen Luo
Radiological Sciences Laboratory REU, 2024

Ali Taoube
Undergraduate Researcher, 2022 – 2024

Audrey Kwan
Undergraduate Researcher, 2022 – 2024

Diego Gomez Lopez
Radiological Sciences Laboratory REU, 2022 and 2023

Hasti Kaboli
Radiological Sciences Laboratory REU / Foothill College Undergraduate Scholar, 2023
Current: Foothill College

Matthew Martinez
Stanford Summer Research Program (SSRP) Undergraduate Scholar, 2023
Current: BS Candidate in Cell & Molecular Biology, California State University Northridge

David Eke
Stanford REACH-HBMC Scholar, 2023
Current: Medical Student, Howard University

Krish Desai
High School Scholar, 2022

Tommaso Di Ianni PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2023
Current: Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

Jeffrey Wang MD, PhD
MSTP / PhD Candidate in Biophysics, 2016-2023
Current: Anesthesiology Resident in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital

Cecilia Alvarez
Stanford Summer Research Program (SSRP) Undergraduate Scholar, 2022
Current: BS Candidate in Biological Sciences, California State University Stanislaus

James Bishop, PhD
NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018 – 2022
Current: Associate Director Medical Science Liaison – Neuroscience, Eli Lilly

Niloufar Nassab, PhD
Research Scientist, 2017 – 2021
Current: Research Scientist, Seer

Sanaz Mohajeri MD, PhD                                                                                                          
Clinical Research Scientist, 2019-2020
Current: Siemens Healthineer, Mountain View, CA

Sunmee Park, PhD                                                                                                         
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2020
Current: Research Scientist, SRI International

Zhenbo Huang, PhD                                                                                                         
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2020
Current: Postdoctoral Researcher, Texas A&M University

Daivik Vyas
MD Candidate, 2017 – 2020
Current: Resident, University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital

Muna Ayral, PhD                                                                                                                             
SCIT Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014-2020
Current: Assistant Professor of Engineering
Joint appointment with Radiation Oncology, Health Science Campus                                              
Loyola University of Chicago

Lakshyaa Balakrishnan                                                                                                             Undergraduate Scholar, 2018-2019
Current: BS Candidate, UT Austin

Doug Martin MD, PhD
Resident and Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2019
Current: Assistant Professor of Radiology (Neuroradiology), Case Western Reserve University 

Andi Park Chaloult
Undergraduate Scholar, 2018

Ananya Karthik
High School Scholar, 2016-2018
Current: BS Candidate, Stanford University

Qian Zhong PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2018
Current: Research Scientist, MIT and Johnson & Johnson

Jason Yoon MD, PhD
Resident and Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2018
Current: Fellow in Neuroradiology, Harvard/MGH