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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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Shae

Shae

PhD candidate

Expertise

coding, calculus, modeling, online game creation, epidemiology, biostatistics

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.

Helena

Helena

Industry expert

Expertise

Mathematics, Music, Linguistics

Yohely

Yohely

MS

Expertise

biochemistry, bioengineering, human diseases, disease treatment, genetics, DNA/RNA, bacterial culture, anti microbial resistance, genetic sequencing, microbial testing

Clayton

Clayton

PhD

Expertise

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

Terra

Terra

PhD candidate

Expertise

All aspects of quantum computing including quantum error correction and quantum algorithms, interdisciplinary data-driven projects such as those related to bioinformatics, theoretical and computational physics

Amin

Amin

PhD

Expertise

Membrane separation/membrane synthesis, online scheduling and optimization, reaction chemistry, heat/mass transport, and thermodynamics.

Erica

Erica

EdM

Expertise

Education, specifically in secondary education for mathematics

Dong

Dong

PhD candidate

Expertise

AI, physics, astrophysics

Ashwyn

Ashwyn

PhD candidate

Expertise

Plasma Physics, Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Aditya

Aditya

PhD candidate

Expertise

computer science (including web dev and machine learning), economics (esp. game theory and/or behavioral economics), philosophy

Nigel

Nigel

MS candidate

Expertise

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

Ercag

Ercag

PhD

Expertise

Data Science, Physics & Statistics

Kelly

Kelly

PhD candidate

Expertise

Computer Science

Alexandra

Alexandra

MS candidate

Expertise

Ecology, conservation, ornithology, habitat management

John

John

PhD candidate

Expertise

Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Batteries

Nicholas

Nicholas

MS

Expertise

Physics, Astrophysics, Stellar Astrophysics: specifically stellar evolution, interior structures of stars, stellar pulsations

Majid

Majid

PhD

Expertise

Economics, Machine Learning

Uday

Uday

PhD candidate

Expertise

Nuclear energy, materials science

Richard

Richard

MA

Expertise

Mathematics