Stanford Students Awarded 2025 Ellison Scholarship 

Emily Molins

Emily is an interdisciplinary researcher at the intersection of artificial intelligence, systems design,and healthcare. She holds undergraduate degrees in economics and engineering and is completing a master’s at Stanford University, where she is affiliated with the Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab,the Center on Poverty and Inequality, and the Human Experience and Advancement Lab at Stanford Medicine. Her research interests center on developing clinical decision support system for specialized and resource-limited settings. She has worked on stroke triage optimization and interned at the White House Office of Management and Budget, applying computational methods to improve healthcare and development. Beyond research, Emily has enjoyed teaching computer science and sociology, mentoring collegiate student-athletes, and rowing competitively forStanford and the U.S. U23 National Team. 

Priyanka Shrestha

Priyanka is an aspiring physician-scientist at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) and medicine, dedicated to advancing digital health tools and computational approaches in biomedical research. She is interested in developing improved multi-modal models for medical decision-making. Her previous work spans developing statistical algorithms for spatial transcriptomics and AI-driven tools for medical education. Recognized as a 2022 Amgen Scholar, Priyanka has presented her research at national and international conferences. She worked as a software engineer at Roche, where she led the development of AI-enhanced data-storage solutions for sequencing by expansion (SBX) data. In her spare time, Priyanka loves exploring mediums of storytelling. She is an amateur podcast producer and a published writer in various literary magazines.