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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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Christina

Christina

PhD candidate

Expertise

Environmental Politics, Comparative Politics, African Politics, Political Communication, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

Tara-Marie

Tara-Marie

PhD

Expertise

Education, Public Policy, Racial Inequality, Math

bu

bu

PhD

Expertise

Survey research, Statistics, Quantitative research, Data analysis, Data Visualization, Business Intelligence

Danielle

Danielle

PhD

Expertise

Public Policy, Program Evaluation, Criminal Justice Reform, Prisoner Reentry, Education

Jennifer

Jennifer

PhD candidate

Expertise

Political psychology, Political behavior, Public opinion, Political Science, American Politics, Survey research, Social networks, GIS in R, R programming, Text as data, Machine Learning, Data visualization, Data science

Nigel

Nigel

MS candidate

Expertise

machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, data analytics, python programming, statistics

Amisa

Amisa

MSc candidate

Expertise

I can mentor students in projects relating to law, public policy, sociology, literature, and moral philosophy.

Chuck

Chuck

PhD

Expertise

Neuroscience of perception and action, statistics, biology, experiment design and data analysis, technical writing, integrative / multi-disciplinary science

Mina

Mina

PhD candidate

Expertise

Data Science, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Statistics

Eduardo

Eduardo

MS

Expertise

Data Science, Python, SQL

Wyatt

Wyatt

PhD candidate

Expertise

Mathematics, Physics, Mathematical Physics, Coding, Data Analysis. My area of expertise in mathematics is symmetry, and generalized symmetries that arise in mathematical physics.

Sona

Sona

MEng

Expertise

Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science, Applied AI/RAG Systems, Full-Stack Development

Prerna

Prerna

PhD

Expertise

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

sarah

sarah

PhD candidate

Expertise

cancer biology, biology, genetics

Samantha

Samantha

PhD

Expertise

Adolescent development; Psychology and behavior; Applications of neuroimaging; Educational neuroscience and psychology; The neuroscience of sleep and emotion; Social determinants of health; Music and the brain; Memory and learning; Environmental neuroscience; Neurolinguistics; Ethics of neuroscience and AI; Genetics and behavior

Rayven

Rayven

PhD candidate

Expertise

Psychology

Allison

Allison

PhD

Expertise

clinical psychology

Nicholas

Nicholas

PhD

Expertise

Aging and aging-related diseases; maternal and child health; epidemiology; Alzheimer's disease and related dementia; frailty; cognitive decline

Imma

Imma

PhD candidate

Expertise

Sociology, immigration, environment, gender, sexuality, activism, social justice, politics

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