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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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Siddharth

Siddharth

PhD candidate

Expertise

Clean energy technologies (fuel cells, hydrogen electrolyzers etc.), electrochemistry, colloidal science, aerosol physics

Krista

Krista

MPH candidate

Expertise

Environmental health (combination of public health, environmental science, biology, chemistry, and statistics/epidemiology)

Omar

Omar

PhD

Expertise

Biomedical Engineering, STEM in general, medical, prosthetics, Electronics, Robotics

Ievgeniia

Ievgeniia

PhD

Expertise

Ukraine, Ukrainian history and literature, the Renaissance and the Reformation in Western Europe, Eastern European and Russian history.

John

John

MS

Expertise

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Business, Finance, Economics, Business Analytics, Statistics, Psychometrics, Research Methods

Dominique

Dominique

PhD

Expertise

Research, Social Science, Gender Studies, Intersectionality, Applied Statistics, Data Science, Equality and Diversity

Vilija

Vilija

MA candidate

Expertise

Psychology

Alexa

Alexa

PhD

Expertise

Drug discovery, microbial interactions, environmental microbiology, genome mining, bioengineering

Joshua

Joshua

PhD candidate

Expertise

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

Theresa

Theresa

PhD candidate

Expertise

Molecular and cellular biology, bioengineering, genetics, stem cells, retina, neuroscience, organoids, CRISPR, gene editing

Enrique

Enrique

MD

Expertise

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

Jameson

Jameson

PhD

Expertise

Economics / Statistics / Web Development / ML / AI

Wyatt

Wyatt

PhD candidate

Expertise

Mathematics, Physics, Mathematical Physics, Coding, Data Analysis. My area of expertise in mathematics is symmetry, and generalized symmetries that arise in mathematical physics.

Will

Will

PhD

Expertise

Molecular Biology, Virology, Metabolism, Immunology, Proteomics

Shannon

Shannon

PhD

Expertise

Parenting, MRI analysis, fNIRS, substance use, mental health, emotion, statistics

Iris

Iris

JD

Expertise

US Legal History, American History, Chinese History

Johanna

Johanna

PhD candidate

Expertise

Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Gravitational Lensing, Coding in python or C++, mechanics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics. Projects to code physics simulations.

Janice

Janice

MD/PhD candidate

Expertise

tissue engineering, biomaterials, biomechanics. stem cells

Elena

Elena

PhD

Expertise

Ecology and evolution, botany, plant biology, marine biology, insect biology, science teaching pedagogy

Kyle

Kyle

PhD

Expertise

Neuroscience of addiction and mental illness, genetic and epigenetic mechanisms in the brain, pharmaceuticals and pharmacology