Staff

Dr. Edward N. Zalta is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. He directs the Metaphysics Research Lab at CSLI and serves as the Principal Editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a dynamic reference work that he designed. His research specialties include metaphysics and formal ontology, the philosophy of mathematics, computational metaphysics, and intensional logic, among others.  Zalta has published two books, Abstract Objects: An Introduction to Axiomatic Metaphysics (D.

Margot Tuckner received her B.A. degree in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1996.  She received her M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Argosy University, in Alameda, CA, in 2007 and is expected to receive her EdD in Counseling Psychology in early 2012.  Margot received her CA state license in Marriage and Family Therapy in 2011 is also a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

Colleen E. Crangle received her M.Sc.degree in computer science from the University of South Africa and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University. Her research focuses on the intersection of language, computation, and biomedicine.  In the Suppes Brain Lab she is working on studies of semantics and the brain. She co-authored the book Language and Learning for Robots (CSLI Publications,1994) with Patrick Suppes.

Duc Nguyen received her B.S. in Bioengineering (Premedical) from the University of California, San Diego. With three years of research and programming experience at UCSD and expertises in small animal surgeries, she is now a Research Assistant at Suppes Brain Lab. She runs EEG experiments for the psychotherapists and Research Associates in emotion and phonemes classifications. Duc maintains the lab and the experimental equipment and software and assists in the creation of the visual and auditory stimuli and analysis programs.

Helen Liu received her B.A in Neurobiology and a B.A. in Physics from University of California, Berkeley, in 2009.  She is currently working with Professor Suppes at the Center for the Study of Language and Information on assisting with searches in the vast literature of oscillators found in biology, with a special emphasis on the modeling of these weakly-coupled biological oscillators. Helen is also working at Abbott Hematology.

Michelle U. Nguyen received her B.S. degree in Biochemistry from the University of California, Davis, in 1986, and her M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University, in Santa Clara, CA, in 2004. She got her license in Marriage and Family Therapy from the state of California in 2009, and is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

Jose Acacio de Barros is an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University's Liberal Studies Program since Fall 2007. Before coming to SFSU, he was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University, and an Associate Professor of Physics at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
Most of his research is in foundations of physics, in particular the foundations of quantum mechanics, and the physics of biological systems. He is also interested in research in physics education.

Claudio G. Carvalhaes received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, RJ, Brazil. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at Rio de Janeiro State University, RJ, Brazil, and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. His research interests include the physics-EEG interface, theoretical physics, and interdisciplinary fields.