Meet The Team

Principal Investigator

Vivek P. Buch, MD

Dr. Buch is an assistant professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford Medicine, Founder of TAIRIS Inc, PI of rNET lab.

Advisor

John R. Adler, MD

Dr. Adler is an emeritus professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford Medicine, CEO of Zap Surgical Systems, Founder of Cureus Inc, and Founder of Accuray (Cyberknife©)

Postdoctoral Scholar

Jay J. Park, MD

Dr. Park is a Korean South African trained in the UK. He graduated from Edinburgh Medical School and worked as a senior house officer in NHS England. He is interested in applying machine learning to improve neurosurgical outcomes around the globe. He focuses in developing an intraoperative surgical guidance platform and using NLP to automate clinical workflow.

Visiting Scholar

Jesse Chang, JD

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Visiting Scholar

Nehal Doiphode, MS

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Resident Neurosurgeon

Ryan Jamiolkowski, MD, PhD

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Resident Neurosurgeon

Danny Yuhao Huang, MD

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Resident Neurosurgeon

Bina Kakusa, MD

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Resident Neurosurgeon

Simon Levinson, MD

Dr. Levinson is a third year neurosurgery resident at Stanford. He is originally from New York and attending undergraduate and medical school at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is interested in exploring how combining knowledge from bio-tech, neuroscience and neurosurgery can help people recover from neurological injury.

Medical Student

Vaibhavi Shah, BS

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Medical Student

Long Sha Liu, BS

Longsha Liu, from New Orleans, is a Stanford medical student and Knight-Hennessy Scholar with interests in healthcare entrepreneurship and innovation. He previously helped lead novel glioblastoma therapeutic design via gut microbiome modulations at BWH, was the team lead and co-founder of Cornell Biomedical Device, an engineering team that developed various medical technologies, and is presently the co-founder and CEO of Vita Innovations, a MedTech startup advancing emergency medicine with patient triage for early clinical deterioration monitoring.

Medical Student

Maria Valentina, BS

Maria Valentina (she/her/ella) is a medical student at Stanford Medicine interested in integrating health equity efforts into the novel surgical technology space. She is passionate about addressing healthcare disparities and enhancing patient accessibility and care in neurosurgery. She was previously involved in developing stem cell therapies for patients with genetic diseases. Having grown up in Villavicencio, Colombia, and Miami, FL, Valentina enjoys dancing salsa during her free time, and volunteering in her community.

PhD Student

Jenny Ji, PhD

Jenny is a second year bioengineering PhD student at Stanford. Passionate about developing translational biomedical tools, she hopes to advance healthcare equity by developing novel diagnostic tools that are high sensitivity but affordable for the general population. She also hopes to increase scientific literacy and enjoys participating in science outreach programs.

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