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.

Game Design
Abigail

Abigail

PhD

Expertise

App Design, Web Design, Computer Graphics (games, simulations, applications, visualizations), Physical Computing (micro:bit, circuit playground, arduino), Technology (blogs, podcasts, social media)

Samantha

Samantha

MS candidate

Expertise

digital art, web design, sound design, historical fashion, herpetology, fashion, art history, game development, app development

Alex

Alex

PhD candidate

Expertise

machine learning, data science, NLP, language generation, data journalism, deep learning, web scraping, creative coding, narrative generation, AI

Blake

Blake

PhD

Expertise

Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Educational Technology

Sam

Sam

PhD

Expertise

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Theoretical Computer Science, Mathematics, Game Design, and Procedurally-Generated Content.

Nolan

Nolan

MS candidate

Expertise

Computer Music, Cryptography, Pure/Applied Mathematics, Game Development, Game Design, Unity, Coding Music, Python

Josh

Josh

PhD candidate

Expertise

game design, user experience research, human-computer interaction, game development, instructional design