
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.

Micayla
MD candidate
Expertise
Medicine, nutrition, dermatology, social determinants of health, health equity, curriculum development and quality improvement, creative and academic writing

Danielle
PhD
Expertise
satellite-based navigation, model-based estimation, Kalman filters, orbital mechanics, Global Positioning System, stochastic processes, probability and statistics, MatLab coding, writing scientific papers (equation-heavy) in LaTeX, creating figures on Adobe Illustrator

AJ
PhD candidate
Expertise
Journalism (reporting, multimedia, publishing, editing), French, Arabic, contemporary Arabic culture, international relations, international political economy, creative writing (novella, short story, haiku), photography, history of post-world war Europe and Middle East

Jackie
PhD
Expertise
Sport and Performance Psychology, Multicultural counseling, Counseling theories, Social psychology, Positive psychology, Mental health within disenfranchised communities, Wellbeing

Abhishek
MD candidate
Expertise
My degrees are in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University and a Masters in Bioengineering from UCSD. I am an expert in tissue engineering, drug delivery, imaging analysis and disease.

Amy
PhD
Expertise
biochemistry, structural biology, microbiology, drug discovery, interdisciplinary research

Kia
MD
Expertise
Psychiatry, nutritional science, women's mental health and reproductive psychiatry

Anastasia
PhD
Expertise
Earth sciences, planetary sciences, physics, mathematics, chemistry, spectroscopy

Micheal
PhD
Expertise
Biology, Chemistry, Genetics, Cell and Molecular Biology, Cardiovascular Biology, and Cellular Agriculture,

Jessica
PhD
Expertise
biology, cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, nutrition, microbiology, Korean language, bioethics, art, life science communications

Enrique
MD
Expertise
Social Determinants of Health, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, Math, Pre-Medical and Medical Science

Sydnie
PhD candidate
Expertise
Classics, Ancient Greek, Women in Antiquity, Greco-Roman Mythology, Magic and Witchcraft in Antiquity

Michael
MS
Expertise
Applied Machine Learning, Large Language Model, WebDev, Data Analysis, SoftwareDev

Colwyn
PhD
Expertise
Immunology, Biology, Cardiovascular Biology, Aging Biology, Basic Sciences, Mitochondria





