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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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Yoelkys

Yoelkys

MD/PhD

Expertise

Microbiology and Infectious disease, the social determinants of health for infectious diseases, sustainable healthcare interventions, engineering bacterial to be beneficial to humans

Kiara

Kiara

PhD candidate

Expertise

Psychology

Dominique

Dominique

PhD

Expertise

Coral biology, marine biology, gene expression, genetics

Anubha

Anubha

CAS

Expertise

Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Mindset Development, Leadership, Organizational culture, Entreprenership

Jacqueline

Jacqueline

PhD candidate

Expertise

Clinical research, specifically pediatric cardiology, rare genetics, addiction, and social determinants of health. Also Spanish literature

Laura

Laura

PhD

Expertise

Neuroscience, Neurodegenerative diseases, Psychology, Cancer biology, Cancer therapeutics, Cellular & Molecular Biology, Scientific communication

Isabel

Isabel

PhD candidate

Expertise

biology; ecology and evolution of infectious diseases; microbiology, virology, mathematical biology; social and political impacts of infectious disease

Akshay

Akshay

MEng

Expertise

computer vision, AI for sports, data science, GPU programming

Kristen

Kristen

PhD

Expertise

History; Anthropology; STS (Science, Technology & Society Studies); Environmental History; Medical Anthropology; colonial, post-colonial, de-colonial studies; feminist anthropology; the social study of science and technology; East African history; Imperialism; social science; creative writing & ethnographic writing/autoethnography

Dilyara

Dilyara

PhD

Expertise

Middle East, Russian history, Islam, colonialism, legal studies, law, world history, European history, digital humanities

Hossein

Hossein

PhD

Expertise

Data Science, Engineer, Statistics, Math, Design Products, engineering design process, user experience design and research, toy design, CAD/3Dprinting, prototyping and rapid manufacturing

Christine

Christine

PhD candidate

Expertise

mental health, inequality, culture, qualitative methods (interviews, ethnography, archival analysis, content analysis), social justice, social problems, sociology, sociology of religion and spirituality, gender and sexuality studies, sexual and reproductive health, ethnic studies, disability studies

Johanna

Johanna

PhD candidate

Expertise

Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Gravitational Lensing, Coding in python or C++, mechanics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics. Projects to code physics simulations.

Eduardo

Eduardo

MS

Expertise

Data Science, Python, SQL

Keith

Keith

MD/PhD candidate

Expertise

Molecular Biology, AI genetics, chemistry, developmental biology, Coding,

Yousif

Yousif

MD candidate

Expertise

Clinical Research, Urology, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, Surgery, Pre-Med, Medicine

Laura

Laura

PhD

Expertise

stellar astrophysics; stellar flares; time series data; photometry

Gabor

Gabor

PhD

Expertise

social psychology, personality psychology, educational psychology

Lupita

Lupita

PhD

Expertise

marine biology, environmental science, ecology

Michael

Michael

PhD

Expertise

clinical psychology, health psychology, geropsychology