
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.

Alex
PhD candidate
Expertise
ML for software engineering, automatic code generation, interpreting neural networks

Kevin
MEng
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science

Xiao
PhD
Expertise
Cryptography, Privacy-Preserving AI/ML, Homomorphic Encryption, GenAI & Social Media Psychology, Computer Vision, and Clinical AI (Informatics & Medical Imaging)

Noah
PhD candidate
Expertise
vehicle security, vehicle reliability, cybersecurity, applied machine learning, Computer Science, Operating System Security

Khushi
PhD candidate
Expertise
machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence, computational biology, genomics

Jeremy
PhD
Expertise
chemistry, physics, machine learning, computational modeling, programming, quantum chemistry

Keith
MD/PhD candidate
Expertise
Molecular Biology, AI genetics, chemistry, developmental biology, Coding

Shervin
PhD
Expertise
computational fluid dynamics, computer aided design, artificial intelligence, high performance computing, machine learning, large language models, product management

Faisal
PhD
Expertise
computer science, data science, machine learning, blockchain, cloud computing, web applications, Internet of Things

Baxter
PhD candidate
Expertise
Mental Health, Material Science, Design, Consulting, User Interface, User Experience

Shomik
PhD candidate
Expertise
Renewable energy (solar), heat transfer, computational materials science

Matthew
PhD
Expertise
Medical Imaging, Medical Physics, Machine Learning, Medical Image Analysis/Processing, Artificial Intelligence

Mahbaneh
PhD
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Gren AI, LLMs

Hossein
PhD
Expertise
Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Cloud computing, Chemical Engineering, Thermodynamic modeling, Process Modeling

Andrew
PhD candidate
Expertise
Multimedia systems, back-end engineering, data compression, computer vision

Nathan
PhD candidate
Expertise
Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Optimization. Operations Research, Environmental Engineering, Applied Math

Audra
MS
Expertise
web development, machine learning, game development, general coding, epidemiology, philosophy, theater

Sejal
MS
Expertise
Data Science, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Sports Analytics, Natural Language Processing, Data Visualization, Computer Science, Biotechnology

Clayton
PhD
Expertise
data science, computer science, computational linguistics, natural language processing, web scraping (Twitter) and analytics, probability theory, statistics, calculus
