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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
Fatak

Fatak

Industry expert

Expertise

Aerospace Engineering; Flight Software Design; Modeling and Simulation; Bioastronautics

Nathan

Nathan

MBA

Expertise

Computer Science, Frontend Engineering, Product Management

Terra

Terra

PhD candidate

Expertise

All aspects of quantum computing including quantum error correction and quantum algorithms, interdisciplinary data-driven projects such as those related to bioinformatics, theoretical and computational physics

Ryan

Ryan

PhD candidate

Expertise

biology, biotech, genetics, computational biology, bioinformatics

Thor

Thor

PhD

Expertise

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

Xiao

Xiao

PhD

Expertise

Cryptography, Privacy-Preserving AI/ML, Homomorphic Encryption, GenAI & Social Media Psychology, Computer Vision, and Clinical AI (Informatics & Medical Imaging)

Shervin

Shervin

PhD

Expertise

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

Parker

Parker

PhD candidate

Expertise

Observational Astrophysics, Computational Astrophysics, Exoplanets, High Contrast imaging, Stellar Nucleosynthesis, Quantum Physics, Quantum Computing

Khushi

Khushi

PhD candidate

Expertise

machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence, computational biology, genomics

Emir

Emir

Industry expert

Expertise

Computer Sciences

Lily

Lily

PhD candidate

Expertise

Biology, Microbiology, Viruses, Microscopy, CRISPR, Proteins, RNA

Jacques

Jacques

PhD candidate

Expertise

history of science, philosophy of science, neuropharmacology, neuroscience of interoception, cognitive science, computational neuroscience

Jai'La

Jai'La

MS candidate

Expertise

Engineering, Computer Aided Design (CAD), human robot interaction, assistive robots, resume help/interview tips

Joshua

Joshua

PhD candidate

Expertise

Bioinformatics, computational biology, immunology, stem cell biology, cancer biology, robotics, and data science.

Jacob

Jacob

MS

Expertise

Plasma Physics, Magnetic Reconnection, x-rays, atomic physics, Plasma Diagnostics

Delia

Delia

MS

Expertise

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

Emily

Emily

PhD candidate

Expertise

Theoretical computer science (algorithms & game theory), discrete mathematics, data science, organic chemistry

Ava

Ava

PhD candidate

Expertise

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

Ribhav

Ribhav

MD candidate

Expertise

Medicine, Infectious diseases, Public Health, Economic modeling, Data Science, Epidemiology, Meta-analysis, Health Economics,

Bruno

Bruno

PhD

Expertise

quantum communication, quantum optics, quantum computing, quantum dynamics, computational materials science, computational physics, machine learning (esp applications to quantum)