Computer Science Research Program Mentors for High School Students | Polygence
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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
Jared

Jared

Industry expert

Expertise

Computer Science, Software engineering, Software design

Lauren

Lauren

MS candidate

Expertise

Gene editing, Disease Biology, Translational Science, Sensory Neuroscience, molecular biology, cell biology

Thor

Thor

PhD

Expertise

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

Atharv

Atharv

MA

Expertise

Data Science

Majid

Majid

PhD

Expertise

Economics, Machine Learning

Leif

Leif

PhD candidate

Expertise

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

Tony

Tony

PhD candidate

Expertise

Robotics, aerodynamics, system design, drones, structures, programming, computer vision

Ritu

Ritu

PhD

Expertise

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

christa

christa

PhD

Expertise

computational genomics, bioinformatics, epigenetics, neurological diseases, health data science, machine learning for health data

Bruno

Bruno

PhD

Expertise

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

Sunny

Sunny

MS candidate

Expertise

intersections of mathematics, applied economics, econometrics, computer science

Ryan

Ryan

PhD

Expertise

physics, astronomy, computational astrophysics, fusion, quantum computing, Reviewing Dark Matter Models, AI/Machine Learning Applied to the Characterization of Exoplanets Observed by JWST, Fermi Analysis of the Drake Equation, cybersecurity, quantum-resistant encryption

Shae

Shae

MS candidate

Expertise

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

Adrian

Adrian

MD/PhD candidate

Expertise

artificial intelligence/machine-learning, neuroscience, computational biology/neuroscience, statistics, cancer, psychiatric illness, reading comprehension, creative and academic writing, essays, applications, computer science

Shalimar

Shalimar

PhD candidate

Expertise

Ecology, marine biology, oceanography, fisheries management, environmental policy, remote sensing

Faisal

Faisal

PhD

Expertise

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

Kevin

Kevin

PhD candidate

Expertise

Machine Learning, Data Science, Statistical inference.

Eric

Eric

PhD candidate

Expertise

Medical Imaging, Computer Vision and Object Tracking, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Image Processing, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Generative AI

Samantha

Samantha

MS candidate

Expertise

digital art, web design, sound design, historical fashion, herpetology, fashion, art history, game development, app development

Nathan

Nathan

MBA

Expertise

Computer Science, Frontend Engineering, Product Management