Economics Research Program Mentors for High School Students | Polygence
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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.

Economics
Prerna

Prerna

PhD candidate

Expertise

Education Policy, Economic Research, Data Analysis, International Development Policy, Causal Inference, Gender, Education and Human Behavior related topics

Keana

Keana

PhD

Expertise

social psychology, statistics, economics

Patrick

Patrick

PhD candidate

Expertise

Economics, with a focus on public policy, healthcare, development and Innovation.

John

John

PhD candidate

Expertise

Economics of the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Industries; Drug Pricing; Competition studies in Healthcare Markets; Determinants of Health; Theory of Healthcare and Health; Entrepreneurship/Business

Caroline

Caroline

MA

Expertise

Music, Marketing, Communications, Media Studies, Anthropology, Ethnography, Leadership, Administration, and Operations

Sam

Sam

PhD candidate

Expertise

Film studies + production, American literature, American history, Gender studies, Music

Daira

Daira

MPA candidate

Expertise

gender and labor economics, economic policy and research in Latin America

Janka

Janka

JSD

Expertise

empirical legal studies, research design, and methodology; rule of law; policy impact studies; comparative constitutional law

Nikki

Nikki

MSc candidate

Expertise

Economics, Marketing, Econometrics

Jameson

Jameson

PhD candidate

Expertise

Economics and Statistics

Garret

Garret

JD

Expertise

Finance, Law, Corporate Finance, Statistics

Ali

Ali

PhD

Expertise

Entrepreneurship, Product Design, Economics, Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning

Odysseas

Odysseas

PhD candidate

Expertise

Machine learning and maths and finance

Majid

Majid

PhD

Expertise

Economics, Machine Learning

Timothy

Timothy

PhD candidate

Expertise

Economics, Monetary Policy, Behavioral Economics, Game Theory, Econometrics, Forecasting

Ziwei

Ziwei

MPP

Expertise

Literature Reviews, Immigration Policy, Educational Policy, Energy Policy, Sustainability, Cultural Awareness, Economics, Econometrics, Data Analysis

Julia

Julia

MBA

Expertise

tech, strategy, business, finance, economics

Adam

Adam

PhD

Expertise

Epilepsy, computational neuroscience, machine learning and causal inference

Urbashee

Urbashee

PhD

Expertise

Economics, Public Policy, Mathematics, Statistics, Writing, Research

Montserrat

Montserrat

PhD

Expertise

Statistics, biostatistics, longitudinal analysis, survival analysis, multivariate statistics, binomial analysis, multinomial analysis, quantitative analysis that serves to inform policy change.