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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.

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Majid

Majid

PhD candidate

Expertise

Economics, Machine Learning

Helena

Helena

Industry expert

Expertise

Mathematics, Music, Linguistics

Kiara

Kiara

PhD candidate

Expertise

Math and Psychology

Karan

Karan

MS

Expertise

Computer Science, Software Development, Data Structures & Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Embedded Systems, Computer Networking

Richard

Richard

MA

Expertise

Mathematics

Saumya

Saumya

MS candidate

Expertise

Chemistry (general, organic, biochem), Biology (general, genetics, microbiology), Medical/Healthcare Sciences (hydrogel technology, tissue engineering, biomaterials)

Cody

Cody

PhD candidate

Expertise

Biomedical Engineering

Claire

Claire

PhD candidate

Expertise

Resource recovery, water and wastewater treatment, renewable energy, air pollution control in environmental engineering, data analysis using R programming, engineering for developing communities (WASH), environmental sustainability, nanotechnology, electrochemistry

Mai

Mai

OD candidate

Expertise

Biochemistry, Math, Chemistry, Optics

Darwin

Darwin

MBA candidate

Expertise

Economics, Finance, Business

Siddhartha

Siddhartha

PhD candidate

Expertise

Mathematical Biology, Theoretical Biophysics

Arij

Arij

PhD

Expertise

Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration, Mathematics, Computer Programming, Dynamical Systems Analysis, Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Computational Neuroscience, Computational Physiology, Python, Matlab, Java

Delia

Delia

MS candidate

Expertise

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

Fatak

Fatak

Industry expert

Expertise

Aerospace Engineering; Flight Software Design; Modeling and Simulation; Bioastronautics

Hossein

Hossein

PhD

Expertise

Data Science, Engineer, Statistics, Math, Design Products, engineering design process, user experience design and research, toy design, CAD/3Dprinting, prototyping and rapid manufacturing

Bruno

Bruno

PhD candidate

Expertise

quantum communication, quantum optics, quantum computing, quantum dynamics, computational materials science, computational physics, language models, machine learning (esp applications to quantum), physics communication and education

Dietrich

Dietrich

PhD candidate

Expertise

Computer Science, Programming Language Design, CPU-GPU Programming/Graphics, Game Development, Algorithms/DSA, HPC (High performance computing)

Paulina

Paulina

PhD candidate

Expertise

bioinformatics, computational biology

Efthimios

Efthimios

MS

Expertise

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Data Science

Lawrence

Lawrence

PhD candidate

Expertise

Observational cosmology. Computational modeling of dynamical systems. Programming for autonomous robots. Quantum computing. Computer vision.