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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.

AI/ML
Laura

Laura

MA

Expertise

Evolution, Genetics, Adaptation, Speciation, Natural Selection, Biodiversity, Phylogenetics, Evolutionary adaptions in response to climate change, Projects focused on analyzing the genetics underlying a specific phenotype or disease, Projects that focus on mining available data (such as collecting and analyzing downloadable genetic sequences from published research work)

David

David

PhD candidate

Expertise

Cognitive neuroscience, psychology, biomedical engineering, electical & computer engineering, machine learning

Jeff

Jeff

PhD candidate

Expertise

Statistical Analysis, including regression analysis, machine learning, and use of R and Python. Statistical analysis in topics such as politics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, public health, and medicine. Biostatistical Analysis, including longitudinal studies and survival analysis

Alex

Alex

PhD candidate

Expertise

ML for software engineering, automatic code generation, interpreting neural networks

Jesus

Jesus

PhD

Expertise

Chemistry, drug design, nanotechnology, data science, machine learning, biosensors, digital health, physics, mobile app, web development

Kevin

Kevin

MEng

Expertise

Artificial Intelligence, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science

Jean

Jean

Industry expert

Expertise

Computer Science is my main area of expertise as it is my current job is as a software engineer. I have to use calculus and statistics in my job as well since I focus on machine learning and artificial intelligence in that role. I am an active investor so I can also tell students about business. As a former frontend developer I also have a solid understand of product design.

Yousuf

Yousuf

PhD candidate

Expertise

Biomedical Engineering, Robotics, Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Data Analysis, Machine Learning

Shervin

Shervin

PhD

Expertise

computational fluid dynamics, computer aided design, artificial intelligence, high performance computing, machine learning, large language models, product management

Leif

Leif

PhD candidate

Expertise

Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing, Genetic Algorithms, Agent-based Modeling, Mechanism Design, NLP Data Science

Rahul

Rahul

PhD

Expertise

Neuroscience, Biology, Engineering, Genetics, Data Science

Mariel

Mariel

PhD

Expertise

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Math

Arpit

Arpit

MS

Expertise

AI/ML, Programming, Career Guidance, Computer Science, Software Eng, AppDev

Ekaterina

Ekaterina

PhD candidate

Expertise

deep learning, machine learning, linear algebra, computer vision, probability theory, medical

Francesca

Francesca

PhD

Expertise

Applied statistics, data science, political science, social science, machine learning, regression

Faisal

Faisal

PhD

Expertise

computer science, data science, machine learning, blockchain, cloud computing, web applications, Internet of Things

Matthew

Matthew

PhD

Expertise

Medical Imaging, Medical Physics, Machine Learning, Medical Image Analysis/Processing, Artificial Intelligence

Clayton

Clayton

PhD

Expertise

data science, computer science, computational linguistics, natural language processing, web scraping (Twitter) and analytics, probability theory, statistics, calculus

Tristan

Tristan

PhD

Expertise

Climate change, data science, AI, machine learning, ecology

Lindsey

Lindsey

MS candidate

Expertise

Mathematics, Computing