Richard
MA
Expertise
Mathematics
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.
Mathematics
Psychology-mental health and well-being. Examining developmental populations, and themes of race/racism, poverty, the family, school, and community contexts. Mindfulness and academic trajectories for kids and youth.
Ethics, Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Work with Philosophy and the social sciences, Writing for the Humanities, philosophical ideas in film and literature
Music, Film Scoring
Analyzing gene expression in neurons, fruit fly neurons, neuroscience, cell biology
clinical psychology (e.g., development and treatment of psychological disorders), neuroscience (e.g., neurocircuitry of fear and stress), social and cognitive psychology
Business, Environmental Policy, Writing, Editing, Arts, Sustainability, Renewables
Clinical (i.e., abnormal) psychology, child psychology, developmental psychopathology, cognitive development, research methods, basic statistics (e.g., ANOVA, regression)
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
Alzheimers, neuroscience, neurodegenerative disease, cell biology, axon initial segment, tau protein, human brain
Neuro-immunology, behavioral neuroscience, depression, antidepressants, Alzheimer’s, gut-brain axis
genetics, gene editing, reproductive biology, infectious diseases
Business development, sales, marketing, product management, cross-team communication, internet of things, B2B networking, business presentation building
Physics, mathematics, chemistry, visual arts, design, biomechanics
Public Health, Public Policy, Political Science, Survey Methods, Sexual & Reproductive Health
Designing, engineering, and testing cancer immunotherapies, biological and bioengineering research
Drug discovery, microbial interactions, environmental microbiology, genome mining, bioengineering
AI/ML, Programming, Career Guidance, Computer Science, Software Eng, AppDev
Cell and Molecular Biology
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.