David
PhD
Expertise
neural signal processing, data science and statistics, AI/ML for medical applications
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.
Amy
PhD
Expertise
biochemistry, structural biology, microbiology, drug discovery, interdisciplinary research
Kia
MD
Expertise
Psychiatry, nutritional science, women's mental health and reproductive psychiatry
Jerry
MArch
Expertise
Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Development, Architecture Competition, Graphics, Digital Arts
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
Christine
PhD candidate
Expertise
mental health, inequality, culture, qualitative methods (interviews, ethnography, archival analysis, content analysis), social justice, social problems, sociology, sociology of religion and spirituality, gender and sexuality studies, sexual and reproductive health, ethnic studies, disability studies
Chloe
MD/PhD candidate
Expertise
Biology, Virology, Medicine, Health, Infectious Disease, Covid-19, Immunology, Anatomy, Addiction, Opioid Epidemic, Neuroscience, Animal Behavior, Psychiatry, any additional topic within health/medicine.
Madeline
PhD
Expertise
social psychology, developmental psychology, moral psychology, artificial intelligence
Lauren
PhD
Expertise
General Biology, Bacteriology, Human Gut Microbiome, Environmental Microbiology, Metabolomics/Lipidomics
Estefania
MPH
Expertise
Public Health, Environmental Justice & Health Disparities, Healthcare Access, Global Health, Sociology, Epidemiology, One health, Environmental Exposures (Climate Change), infectious disease, Women's health, Immigrant Health
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
Claire
DVM candidate
Expertise
Veterinary medicine, veterinary pathology, histopathology, veterinary epidemiology, OneHealth
Xiao
PhD
Expertise
Cryptography, Privacy-Preserving AI/ML, Homomorphic Encryption, GenAI & Social Media Psychology, Computer Vision, and Clinical AI (Informatics & Medical Imaging)