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Research Program Mentors

Polygence mentors are selected based on their exceptional academic background, teaching experience, and unique ability to inspire the next generation of innovative thinkers and industry leaders.

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Amaya

Amaya

PhD

Expertise

UX/, Entrepreneurship/Startups, Product Management, Design Thinking, Market Research, Digital Marketing, Science Fair, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Biology

Michael

Michael

Industry expert

Expertise

Culinary Arts, Business Strategy & Management Consulting, Biology, Creative Fiction and Non-Fiction writing

Gabor

Gabor

PhD

Expertise

social psychology, personality psychology, educational psychology

Kyle

Kyle

MS

Expertise

Energy storage, climate change, heat transfer

Arij

Arij

PhD

Expertise

Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration, Mathematics, Computer Programming, Dynamical Systems Analysis, Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Computational Neuroscience, Computational Physiology, Python, Matlab, Java

Phoebe

Phoebe

PhD candidate

Expertise

Public Health, Health Behavior, Unhealthy Product Marketing, Retail Environments, Nutrition Policy, Alcohol Policy, Tobacco Policy

Beto

Beto

MPhil

Expertise

Modern British History, Environmental History, American History, History of War, Sustainability

Efe

Efe

MBA candidate

Expertise

Writing, Media/Journalism, Advertising, Marketing, English Language Arts

Ajua

Ajua

PhD

Expertise

Social Psychology, Emotions, Emotion Regulation, Discrimination in Psychology, the Psychology of Stigma

Xiao

Xiao

PhD

Expertise

Cryptography, Machine Learning, Algorithm

Nicholas

Nicholas

MS candidate

Expertise

The application of data science to investment analysis, financial analysis, trading analysis

Kimi

Kimi

PhD candidate

Expertise

human-computer interaction, social media, tech ethics, AI ethics, privacy, UX design, computer science, social psychology, cognitive psychology

Henry

Henry

PhD candidate

Expertise

Chemical engineering & data science applied to biology

Kim-Marie

Kim-Marie

PhD

Expertise

structural biology - cryo-electron microscopy; immunology - adaptive immune system, antibodies; virology - HIV, SARS-CoV-2, influenza; protein engineering - vaccine design

Zoey

Zoey

MD/PhD candidate

Expertise

economics, medicine, healthcare, public health, policy, data science, classics, biology, chemistry

Jeffrey

Jeffrey

PhD candidate

Expertise

Bioengineering, Tissue Engineering, 3D Bioprinting, and Biology

Sara

Sara

PhD candidate

Expertise

Astrophysics, solar cells, semiconductor devices, optoelectrical devices

Jamie

Jamie

MS

Expertise

web applications, mobile apps, databases, software engineering, git, DevOps

Jan Mikhale

Jan Mikhale

PhD candidate

Expertise

Molecular and Cell Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Tissue Organization, Cancer Biology, Basic Cell Biology, Microbiology, Streptococcus, Lactobacillus, Microbiome research

David

David

PhD

Expertise

Biological Science, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Climate Change Biology, GIS (Geographic Information Systems), Data Science, Bioinformatics, Botany, Environmental Justice & Sustainability, Metabolomics, Population Genetics