Faculty Affiliates

Russ Altman
Associate Professor, Genetics and Medicine
Research interests: biomedical informatics.

Arnetha Ball
Associate Professor, Education
Research interests: socio-cultural and linguistic theory, preparation of teachers for working with students who are poor, members of racially or ethnically marginalized groups, and speakers of first languages other than mainstream or academic English.

Brigid Barron
Associate Professor, Education
Research interests: assessment, technology in innovative classroom environments, collaborative problem-solving, social influences on children's learning, cognitive development in school settings.

Jo Boaler
Associate Professor, Education
Research interests: mathematics education and teacher education, with particular interests in the effectiveness of different teaching environments, the inequitable nature of mathematics classrooms, and situated analyses of learning.

Linda Darling-Hammond
Professor, Education
Research interests: teacher training and education, professional development schools, education policy and practice, school reform, authentic assessment, instruction of diverse learners

Parvati Dev
Director, SUMMIT (Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies)
Research interests: Computers in medical education, simulation techniques for medical education.

Robert B. Dunbar
Professor, Geological and Environmental Sciences
Research Interests: Global environmental change, international policy implications of climate change, oceanography, climate dynamics, and geochemistry.

Elliot Eisner
Professor, Education and Art
Research interests: arts education, development of aesthetic intelligence, use of methods from the arts to study and improve educational practice.

Armando Fox
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research interests: Design of robust software infrastructure for Internet services and ubiquitous computing, user interface issues related to mobile and ubiquitous computing, interactive workspaces.

Renate Fruchter
Senior Research Associate, Department of Civil Engineering and the
Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE)
Director, Project Based Learning Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering
Research interests: Development of an integrated computer system supporting interdisciplinary communication and collaboration in design through shared graphic models, linking CAD product models with Web information resources and documents.

Shelley Goldman
Associate Professor, Education
Research interests: classroom social context, communication patterns in the context of computer networks, simulations and collaboration, use and integration of information technology in the classroom, mathematics education

James Greeno
Professor, Education
Research interests: anthropology and education, cognitive psychology, curriculum and instruction, mathematics education, classroom discourse practices.

Craig Heller
Professor, Organismal Biology
Research interests: Neurobiology of sleep, circadian rhythms, application of simulation and other technologies to the teaching of biology to undergraduates.

Lambertus ("Bert") Hesselink
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Research interests: optical signal processing, optical data storage, optical computing and scientific visualization, use of Web for remote educational laboratory access.

Pamela Hinds
Assistant Professor, Management Science and Engineering
Research interests: the effect of remote and distributed work on employees' shared understanding of work, intellectual property agreements and information sharing, limitations of expertise.

Shanto Iyengar
Professor, Communication and Political Science
Director, Political Communications Lab
Research interests: Political communication, mass media effects, use of the Internet for experimental studies of political opinion. [check with Sam for e-mail re CD's on political communication]

Michael Kamil
Professor, Education
Research interests: cognitive psychology, effect of technology on literacy and its acquisition, reading instruction, technology in teaching and learning, cognitive dimensions of hypertext versus conventional text.

John Krumboltz
Professor, Education and Psychology
Research interests: Career counseling, occupational simulation using computer technology, career beliefs as obstacles to achievement.

Mark Lepper
Professor, Psychology
Research interests: strategies and techniques of expert tutors, motivational and cognitive processes, design and evaluation of intrinsically motivating instructional activities for children using computers, effects of early exposure to computers on children's learning and motivation.

Rachel Lotan
Associate Professor, Education
Director, STEP (Stanford Teacher Education Program)
Research interests: teaching and learning in academically and linguistically diverse classrooms, sociology of the classroom, social organization of schools.

Andrea Lunsford
Professor, English
Director, Writing and Critical Thinking Program
Research interests: Literacy and its relation to culture, women in the history of rhetoric, theories of authorship, intellectual property, teaching of writing and rhetoric to undergraduates

Ray McDermott
Professor, Education
Research interests: educational and psychological anthropology, information technologies, analysis of human communication, organization of school success and failure, interaction analysis and social structure, political economy of learning, writing systems.

Christopher Manning
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Linguistics
Research interests: natural language processing, computational lexicography (involving work in XML, XSL, and information visualization), information extraction, syntactic typology, distributed web infrastructure for learning objects.

Betsy Mellins
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Research interests: immunology and transplant biology, cross-disciplinary teaching using technology

Clifford I. Nass
Professor, Communication
Research interests: Human response to interfaces, computer and voice interfaces, statistical methodology, psychology of technology.

Brad Osgood
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Research interests: Mathematics teaching, complex analysis, differential geometry, spectral theory, use of technology to teach pre-requisites (courselets)

Julie Parsonnet
Associate Professor, Medicine
Research interests: Role of infectious diseases in chronic diseases, information technology in medical education.

Deanne Perez-Granados
Assistant Professor, Education
Research interests: children's cognitive and language development from a social-cultural perspective, effect of computer technologies on children's semantic and conceptual development.

Byron Reeves
Professor, Communication
Director, Center for the Study of Language and Information
Research interests: Social and natural responses to communication technologies, psychological processing of media, picture perception, psychological effects of advanced media displays.

Kristine Samuelson
Professor, Communication
Research interests: documentary filmmaking techniques, annotation technology for film instruction.

Jeffrey Schnapp
Professor, French and Italian, Comparative Literature
Director, Stanford Humanities Laboratory
Research interests: Cultural aspects of Fascism, medieval culture, application of information technology to teaching of humanities to undergraduates.

Daniel Schwartz
Associate Professor, Education
Research interests: mental models, instructional methods, use of multimedia and artificial intelligence tools in instruction, collaborative learning, spatial representations and learning.

Richard Shavelson
Professor, Education and Psychology
Research interests: measuring individual and group performance in science and mathematics, statistically modeling performance assessment, addressing policy and practice issues in measurement reform, accountability in higher education.

Sheri Sheppard
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: engineering education, gender, underrepresented minorities in engineering, weld fatigue and impact failures, fracture mechanics, applied finite element analysis.

Decker Walker
Professor, Education
Research interests: technology in teaching and learning, use of technology in middle and high schools, design of technology-based materials and environments.

Terry Winograd
Professor, Computer Science
Research interests: interaction design, hermeneutics, linguistic basis of computer design.

Richard Zare
Professor, Chemistry
Research interests: Laser chemistry, molecular collision processes, experiential approaches to science teaching