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.
Resource recovery, water and wastewater treatment, renewable energy, air pollution control in environmental engineering, data analysis using R programming, engineering for developing communities (WASH), environmental sustainability, nanotechnology, electrochemistry
Data Science, Engineer, Statistics, Math, Design Products, engineering design process, user experience design and research, toy design, CAD/3Dprinting, prototyping and rapid manufacturing
Economics, Finance, Business
Computer Science
Applied Physics, Applied Math, Mechanical Engineering, Data Science, and Machine Learning
biology, biochemistry, immunology, chemistry, math
computer science (including web dev and machine learning), economics (esp. game theory and/or behavioral economics), philosophy
Computer Sciences
Membrane separation/membrane synthesis, online scheduling and optimization, reaction chemistry, heat/mass transport, and thermodynamics.
Economics and Statistics
Mathematics
superconductivity, batteries, physics, math, fractals, semiconductors and solar cells, sustainable energy technology, applied computer programming projects related to physics or math, STEM education improvements (either through a social lens or through pedagogy lens)
Ecology, conservation, ornithology, habitat management
bioinformatics, computational biology
Orbital Mechanics, Spacecraft Mission Design, Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization, Stability Analysis, Orbit Determination, Kalman Filters, Analytical Methods, Optimal Control
Bioengineering, bioinformatics, math, physics
Data Science, Physics & Statistics
machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, data analytics, python programming, statistics
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
Clean energy technologies (fuel cells, hydrogen electrolyzers etc.), electrochemistry, colloidal science, aerosol physics