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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.

AI/ML
Yixi

Yixi

MBA

Expertise

business, business analytics, data, data visualization, data analysis, marketing, power BI, Business, Management Science, Engineering, Food science & Food Processing Engineering, Google Analytics, cloud, cloud computing, enterprise tech infrastructure, Artificial intelligence (AI)/ Machine Learning (ML) application for business

Adam

Adam

PhD

Expertise

Machine learning, causal inference, quantitative finance, biomedical engineering, and data science

Nathan

Nathan

PhD candidate

Expertise

Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Optimization. Operations Research, Environmental Engineering, Applied Math

Mina

Mina

PhD candidate

Expertise

Data Science, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Statistics

Xiao

Xiao

PhD

Expertise

Cryptography, Privacy-Preserving AI/ML, Homomorphic Encryption, GenAI & Social Media Psychology, Computer Vision, and Clinical AI (Informatics & Medical Imaging)

Kimi

Kimi

PhD candidate

Expertise

human-computer interaction, social media, tech ethics, AI ethics, privacy, UX design, computer science, social psychology, cognitive psychology

Lucas

Lucas

PhD candidate

Expertise

chemical engineering, drug delivery, nanotechnology, chemistry, physics, materials science, computer science, machine learning

Shervin

Shervin

PhD

Expertise

computational fluid dynamics, computer aided design, artificial intelligence, high performance computing, machine learning, large language models, product management

Khushi

Khushi

PhD candidate

Expertise

machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence, computational biology, genomics

Kevin

Kevin

MEng

Expertise

Artificial Intelligence, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science

Lucas

Lucas

Industry expert

Expertise

Coding, Python, Machine Learning, Neuroscience, Data Science

Jeremy

Jeremy

PhD

Expertise

chemistry, physics, machine learning, computational modeling, programming, quantum chemistry

Ali

Ali

PhD

Expertise

Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Arabic Linguistics

Montserrat

Montserrat

PhD

Expertise

Statistical analysis, including regression, longitudinal analysis, and machine learning using R. Statistical analysis in topics such as politics, education, public health, and economics. Research design, including experimental design and survey design. Comparability studies, including propensity score matching and measurement invariance.

Clayton

Clayton

PhD

Expertise

data science, computer science, computational linguistics, natural language processing, web scraping (Twitter) and analytics, probability theory, statistics, calculus

Alex

Alex

PhD candidate

Expertise

ML for software engineering, automatic code generation, interpreting neural networks

Noah

Noah

PhD candidate

Expertise

vehicle security, vehicle reliability, cybersecurity, applied machine learning, Computer Science, Operating System Security

Delia

Delia

MS

Expertise

Artificial intelligence(ML/NLP/DL), Computer vision & graphics

Yilan

Yilan

PhD

Expertise

method development to better understand the disease causes, applications of machine learning/deep learning in biology

Kristina

Kristina

MS candidate

Expertise

Anything involving the mind, brain, and behavior