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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
Hannah

Hannah

MEng

Expertise

AI Ethics, Human Centered Design, Tech Policy, Accessible AI design, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, 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

David

David

PhD candidate

Expertise

Cognitive neuroscience, psychology, biomedical engineering, electical & computer engineering, machine learning

DaVante

DaVante

PhD candidate

Expertise

Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics, Machine Learning, Quantum Information

Yash

Yash

MS candidate

Expertise

Electrical and Computer Engineering/Computer Science/Scientific Simulation/Chip Design/Software Engineering

Madeline

Madeline

PhD

Expertise

social psychology, developmental psychology, moral psychology, artificial intelligence

Nathan

Nathan

PhD candidate

Expertise

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

Mark

Mark

PhD

Expertise

neuroengineering, brain-computer interfaces, neuromorphic engineering, computational neuroscience, electronics, computer science, signal processing, robotics

Lindsey

Lindsey

MS candidate

Expertise

Mathematics, Computing

Clayton

Clayton

PhD

Expertise

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

Adam

Adam

PhD

Expertise

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

Ali

Ali

PhD

Expertise

Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Arabic Linguistics

Arpit

Arpit

MS

Expertise

AI/ML, Programming, Career Guidance, Computer Science, Software Eng, AppDev

Sejal

Sejal

MS

Expertise

Data Science, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Sports Analytics, Natural Language Processing, Data Visualization, Computer Science, Biotechnology

Baxter

Baxter

PhD candidate

Expertise

Mental Health, Material Science, Design, Consulting, User Interface, User Experience

Mahbaneh

Mahbaneh

PhD

Expertise

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Gren AI, LLMs

Lucas

Lucas

PhD candidate

Expertise

Chemical Engineering, drug delivery, nanotechnology, chemistry, physics, materials science, computer science, machine learning applied to chemistry and engineering problems

Hirsh

Hirsh

PhD candidate

Expertise

Technology Policy, Web Development, Cyberdefense/Cybersecurity, Election Security

Shervin

Shervin

PhD

Expertise

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

Keith

Keith

MD/PhD candidate

Expertise

Molecular Biology, AI genetics, chemistry, developmental biology, Coding