Josh
PhD candidate
Expertise
game design, user experience research, human-computer interaction, game development, instructional design
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.
Blake
PhD
Expertise
Design, Human-Computer Interaction, UX design, UI design, front-end development, Educational Technology
Samantha
MS candidate
Expertise
digital art, web design, sound design, historical fashion, herpetology, fashion, art history, game development, app development
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)
Ian
MArch candidate
Expertise
Architecture, Fashion, Product Design, Industrial Design, Augemented Reality, Virtual Reality, Extended Reality
Dietrich
PhD candidate
Expertise
Computer Science, Programming Language Design, CPU-GPU Programming/Graphics, Game Development, Algorithms/DSA, HPC (High performance computing)
Brandon
MA
Expertise
Game Design/Development, learning the process of creating a game from start to finish, analyzing and creating games that have a transformational impact on the player
Sam
PhD
Expertise
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Theoretical Computer Science, Mathematics, Game Design, and Procedurally-Generated Content.
Oleksandra
PhD candidate
Expertise
Game design, serious / educational game design, game development in Unity, game deployment and evaluation, introduction to AI/ML
Alex
PhD candidate
Expertise
machine learning, data science, NLP, language generation, data journalism, deep learning, web scraping, creative coding, narrative generation, AI