The LASERs (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) are an international program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversation with an audience. This evening,  chaired by professor Curtis Frank, will feature these talks:

- Tanya Luhrmann (Stanford Anthropology) on "Voices"

- Muhammad Khatib (Stanford Chemical Engineering) on "Fiber Bioelectronics for Precision Medicine"

- Nitya Thakkar (Stanford Medicine) on "AI for Precision Health"

Tanya Marie Luhrmann is a Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department whoserecent work has been on voices, visions, felt presence and other remarkable events in psychiatric illness and in religious experience. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003, received a John Guggenheim Fellowship award in 2007, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. Her books include Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft, The Good Parsi, Of Two Minds, When God Talks Back, Our Most Troubling Madness (co-edited with Jocelyn Marrow), and How God Becomes Real.

Muhammad Khatib  is an engineer and innovator  in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University working at the intersection of technology and medicine. He specializes in bioelectronic devices that interact with the human body for sensing and stimulation, providing new opportunities in health monitoring and interventions.  He develops high-density, soft bioelectronic fibers as thin as a human hair for biomedical applications.

Nitya Thakkar is a Computer Science PhD student at Stanford University, advised by James Zou. Her research focuses on developing AI and computational methods to advance precision medicine, with a focus on integrating multimodal data.

Detailed bios at: Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous LASER

The Stanford LASERs are co-sponsored by the deans of Humanities and Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and by Chemical Engineering.