Faculty and Projects

Following boot camp, EI Fellows will be matched to a faculty member and their research project based on their indicated interest areas and background; for the remaining duration of the program, they will work full-time with their faculty and research team. The following faculty members have agreed to take on an undergraduate fellow in Summer 2027. 

Examples of each faculty member's ongoing research projects are also listed - these are not necessarily the actual projects that Fellows will be working on. More concrete project details will be available in late winter-early spring of each year.

  • Monica Ellwood-Lowe
    Monica Ellwood-Lowe

    Assistant Professor, Education
    Stanford University

    Example project: See more details on the Minds, Experiences, and Language (MEL) Lab website

  • Judith Fan
    Judith Fan

    Assistant Professor of Psychology
    Stanford University

    Example project: See more details on the Cognitive Tools Lab website

  • Susanna Loeb
    Susanna Loeb

    Kissick Family Professor of Education; Director of SCALE Initiative
    Stanford University

    Example project: The National Student Support Accelerator: Translating promising research about how tutoring can benefit students into action on the ground; The AI Hub for Education: Delivering trusted research, insights, and tools for K-12 education leaders to leverage generative AI to benefit students, schools, and learning

  • Jelena Obradović
    Jelena Obradović

    Professor; Director, SPARK Lab
    Stanford University

    Example project: Early childhood intervention to disrupt disproportionality in preschool exclusionary discipline and special education referrals

  • Sean Reardon
    Sean Reardon

    Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education, Professor (by courtesy) of Sociology
    Stanford University

    Example project: The Educational Opportunity Project: Harnessing data to help scholars, policymakers, educators, and parents learn how to improve educational opportunity for all children

  • Beth Schueler
    Beth Schueler

    Associate Professor, Education
    Stanford University

    Research areas: U.S. education policy, politics, and governance; public opinion on schooling

  • Katharine Sadowski
    Katharine Sadowski

    Assistant Professor, Education
    Stanford University

    Research areas: Childcare supply, provider data infrastructure, and early childhood education markets; minimum wage policy effects on childcare firms and labor-market dynamics; magnet school openings, classroom segregation, and K–12 education policy