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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.

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Maryann

Maryann

PhD

Expertise

Civic engagement, mobilization, race/ethnic politics, gender, authoritarianism, religion/politics, political psychology, political participation, constitutional studies, Supreme Court

Fatak

Fatak

Industry expert

Expertise

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

Jon

Jon

PhD candidate

Expertise

Mechanical engineering, dynamics, physics, biomechanics, assistive devices, device design, machine learning, deep learning, movement disorders, promoting healthy movement

Natalie

Natalie

PhD candidate

Expertise

Medicine, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Data Science

Cyrus

Cyrus

MD

Expertise

Public Health, Environmental Science, Biology

Hossein

Hossein

PhD

Expertise

Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Cloud computing, Chemical Engineering, Thermodynamic modeling, Process Modeling

Magdalena

Magdalena

MTS

Expertise

Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of South America, Social Sciences

Jennifer

Jennifer

PhD candidate

Expertise

Political psychology, Political behavior, Public opinion, Political Science, American Politics, Survey research, Social networks, GIS in R, R programming, Text as data, Machine Learning, Data visualization, Data science

Lily

Lily

PhD candidate

Expertise

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

Briana

Briana

MBA candidate

Expertise

fashion, business, creativity, aligning tech and data with fashion, cloud application, commercialization of tech

JaNieka

JaNieka

MBA candidate

Expertise

Human Resources, Business, General research

Ava

Ava

PhD candidate

Expertise

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

Logan

Logan

PhD candidate

Expertise

Social Psychology, UI/UX

Jack

Jack

PhD candidate

Expertise

Cancer biology, molecular biology, biophysics, pharmacology, microscopy.

Benjamin

Benjamin

PhD candidate

Expertise

20th c. American History, 20th c. British Isles, Urban History, Labor History, Social History, History of Inequality, Oral History, Local History & Community Studies, Ethnography, Anthropology, History & Politics, African American Studies, History of Gender & Sexuality

Jessie

Jessie

PhD candidate

Expertise

Geology, paleontology, paleobiology, geochemistry, cephalopods, earth history, evolution, marine science, marine conservation, climate change

Amy

Amy

PhD

Expertise

biochemistry, structural biology, microbiology, drug discovery, interdisciplinary research

CJ

CJ

Industry expert

Expertise

Biology, Real Estate, Dentistry, Business, Economics, Sports

Nigel

Nigel

MS candidate

Expertise

machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, data analytics, python programming, statistics

Pieter

Pieter

PhD

Expertise

Stem Cell Biology, Tissue Regeneration, Metabolism, Aging, Image Processing