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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.

Computer Science
Darrell

Darrell

PhD candidate

Expertise

Bioinformatics, Immunology, Genetics, Computational Biology, Environmental Science, Water Treatment, Aviation Safety, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Physics

Christopher

Christopher

PhD candidate

Expertise

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Computational Modelling; Biology of Aging

David

David

PhD candidate

Expertise

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

Amanda

Amanda

MS candidate

Expertise

combinatorics, graph theory, algebra, math but make it girlypop, girlypop but make it math, co-opting math content from one area and using it in wildly incompatible (but not really) areas

Thor

Thor

PhD

Expertise

Economics, Transportation, Urban Planning, Data Science, Climate Change

Sunny

Sunny

MS candidate

Expertise

intersections of mathematics, applied economics, econometrics, computer science

Ritu

Ritu

PhD

Expertise

Java Programming, Graph Databases, Collaborative Software Engineering, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Plagiarism detection in Java projects

Ava

Ava

PhD candidate

Expertise

Physics, astrophysics, galaxy evolution, observational astrophysics, computational astrophysics

Shae

Shae

MS candidate

Expertise

coding, calculus, modeling, online game creation, epidemiology, biostatistics

Karan

Karan

MS

Expertise

Computer Science, Software Development, Data Structures & Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Embedded Systems, Computer Networking

Shervin

Shervin

PhD

Expertise

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

Nathan

Nathan

MBA

Expertise

Computer Science, Frontend Engineering, Product Management

Delia

Delia

MS

Expertise

Artificial intelligence(ML/NLP/DL), Computer vision & graphics

Leif

Leif

PhD candidate

Expertise

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

Dietrich

Dietrich

PhD candidate

Expertise

Computer Science, Programming Language Design, CPU-GPU Programming/Graphics, Game Development, Algorithms/DSA, HPC (High performance computing)

Mariel

Mariel

PhD

Expertise

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Math

Andrew

Andrew

MS

Expertise

iOS, Swift, General computer science, Computer Science, Software Eng, AppDev

Aditya

Aditya

PhD candidate

Expertise

computer science (including web dev and machine learning), economics (esp. game theory and/or behavioral economics), philosophy

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