PRIMES: Mentors

2024

Mathematics

• Dr. Ziang Chen
• Yunseo Choi (Harvard)
• Prof. James Coykendall (Clemson University)
• David Cui
• David Darrow
• Dr. Manik Dhar
• Dr. Hunter Dinkins
• Benjy Firester
• Dr. Jesse Geneson (SJSU)
• Dr. Felix Gotti
• Dr. Marly Gotti (Apple)
• Serina Hu
• Arun Kannan
• Prof. Dmitry Kleinbock (Brandeis)
• Benjamin Li
• Rupert Li
• Dr. Max Lipton
• Isaac Lopez
• Prof. Lu Lu (Yale)
• Dr. Sammy Luo
• Nitya Mani
• Prof. Sergiy Merenkov (CCNY – CUNY)
• Ivan Motorin
• Dr. Monique Müller (Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Brazil)
• Dr. Pablo S. Ocal (UCLA)
• Dr. Tariq Osman (Brandeis)
• Yuchong Pan
• Hao Peng
• Prof. Julia Plavnik (Indiana University Bloomington)
• Dr. Héctor Peña Pollastri (Indiana University Bloomington)
• Dr. Harold Polo (University of California Irvine)
• Jonathan Rodriguez-Figueroa
• Prof. Leonid Rybnikov
• Prof. Laura Schaposnik (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Kenta Suzuki
• Dr. Foster Tom
• Frank Wang
• Dr. Joshua Wang

Computer Science

• Jules Drean
• Varun Gohil
• Noah Golowich
• Andrew Gritsevskiy (Cavendish Labs)
• Kyle Hogan
• Prof. Ann Kronrod (UMass Lowell)
• Simon Langowski
• Nikita Lazarev
• Yueying (Lisa) Li
• Vladislav Lialin (UMass Lowell)
• Junhong Lin
• Dr. Christopher Rackauckas
• Prof. Anna Rumshisky (UMass Lowell)
• Prof. Raja Sambasivan (Tufts University)
• Sacha Servan-Schreiber
• Mayuri Sridhar
• Prof. Julian Shun

Computational Biology

• Prof. Gil Alterovitz (Harvard Medical School)
• Dr. Aleksandra Galitsyna
• Dr. Ben Lengerich
• Dr. Nicole Rockweiler (Broad Institute)

2023

Mathematics

• Julius Baldauf
• Dr. Elijah Bodish
• Merrick Cai
• Prof. Scott Chapman (SHSU)
• Prof. Gilyoung Cheong (University of California Irvine)
• Yunseo Choi (Harvard)
• Prof. James Coykendall (Clemson University)
• Agustina Czenky (University of Oregon)
• Dr. Nick Derr
• Travis Dillon
• Dr. Jesse Geneson (SJSU)
• Dr. Felix Gotti
• Serina Hu
• Dr. Artem Kalmykov
• Arun Kannan
• Prof. Nathan Kaplan (University of California Irvine)
• Andrey Khesin
• Daniel Lazarev
• Prof. Lu Lu (University of Pennsylvania)
• Nitya Mani
• Prof. Sergiy Merenkov (CCNY – CUNY)
• Vasily Neckrasov (Brandeis University)
• Yuchong Pan
• Dr. Alex Pieloch
• Prof. Julia Plavnik (Indiana University Bloomington)
• Dr. Héctor Peña Pollastri (Indiana University Bloomington)
• Harold Polo (University of Florida)
• Elia Portnoy
• Dr. Thomas Rüd
• Dr. Leonid Rybnikov (Harvard)
• Prof. Laura Schaposnik (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Dr. Youngtak Sohn
• Dr. Minh-Tam Trinh
• Prof. James Unwin (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Dr. Kent Vashaw
• Guanghao Ye
• Dr. Jingze Zhu

Computer Science

• Jules Drean
• Axel Feldmann
• Varun Gohil
• Andrew Gritsevskiy (University of Toronto)
• Kyle Hogan
• Simon Langowski
• Nikita Lazarev
• Yueying (Lisa) Li
• Vladislav Lialin (UMass Lowell)
• Prof. Anna Rumshisky (UMass Lowell)
• Prof. Raja Sambasivan (Tufts University)
• Sacha Servan-Schreiber
• Mayuri Sridhar
• Prof. Julian Shun
• Hanshen Xiao
• Shangdi Yu

Computational Biology

• Prof. Gil Alterovitz (Harvard Medical School)
• Dr. Aleksandra Galitsyna
• Dr. Giulio Genovese (Broad Institute)
• Bob Handsaker (Broad Institute)
• Seva Kashin (Broad Institute)
• Prof. Steve McCarroll (Harvard Medical School)
• Dr. Henrik Dahl Pinholt
• Dr. Ayshwarya Subramanian (Broad Institute)

2022

Mathematics

• Prof. Scott Chapman (SHSU)
• Prof. James Coykendall (Clemson University)
• David Darrow
• Dr. Colin Defant
• Sanath Devalapurkar (Harvard University)
• Yibo Gao
• Dr. Jesse Geneson (SJSU)
• Dr. Felix Gotti
• Serina Hu
• Arun Kannan
• Andrey Khesin
• Younhun Kim
• Dr. Daniel Kriz (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche)
• Tang-Kai Lee
• Heidi Lei
• Chun Hong Lo
• Prof. Lu Lu (University of Pennsylvania)
• Nitya Mani
• Prof. Sergiy Merenkov (CCNY – CUNY)
• Prof. Alejandro Morales (UMass Amherst)
• Prof. Julia Plavnik (Indiana University Bloomington)
• Sanjay Raman
• Sean Sanford (Indiana University Bloomington)
• Prof. Laura Schaposnik (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Jesse Selover (UMass Amherst)
• Aleksandra Utiralova
• Zoe Wellner (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Prof. James Unwin (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Dr. Kent Vashaw
• Yuan Yao
• Zi Song Yeoh
• Jeffery Yu
• YiYu (Adela) Zhang

Computer Science

• Jules Drean
• Andrew Gritsevskiy (University of Toronto)
• Kyle Hogan
• Darby Huye (Tufts University)
• Simon Langowski
• Vladislav Lialin (UMass Lowell)
• Max Liu (Tufts University)
• William Moses
• Prof. Anna Rumshisky (UMass Lowell)
• Prof. Raja Sambasivan (Tufts University)
• Sacha Servan-Schreiber
• Mayuri Sridhar
• Prof. Julian Shun
• Jun Wan
• Yu Xia
• Shangdi Yu

Computational Biology

• Sameer Abraham
• Prof. Gil Alterovitz
• Bob Handsaker (Broad Institute)
• Seva Kashin (Broad Institute)
• Dr. Ayshwarya Subramanian (Broad Institute)

2021

Mathematics

• Kevin Chang
• Dr. Irving Dai
• David Darrow
• Dr. Valeri Frumkin
• Christian Gaetz 
• Dr. Jesse Geneson (SJSU)
• Dr. Felix Gotti
• Sarah Greer
• Feng Gui
• Dr. Pei-Ken Hung
• Dr. Konstantin Jakob
• Pakawut Jiradilok
• Arun Kannan
• Andrey Khesin 
• Luis Kumanduri
• Dr. Benjamin Landon
• Chun Hong Lo
• Dr. Lu Lu
• Prof. Sergiy Merenkov (CCNY – CUNY)
• Prof. Laura Schaposnik (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Chengyang Shao
• Dr. Minh-Tam Trinh
• Dr. Jonathan Wang
• Prof. James Unwin (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Lucy Yang (Harvard University)
• Jeffery Yu
• Pu Yu
• YiYu (Adela) Zhang 

Computer Science

• Alkis Gotovos
• Jules Drean
• Kyle Hogan
• Prof. Stefanie Jegelka
• Guillaume Leclerc
• Vladislav Lialin (UMass Lowell)
• William Moses
• Joshua Robinson
• Prof. Anna Rumshisky (UMass Lowell)
• Prof. Raja Sambasivan (Tufts University)
• Sacha Servan-Schreiber
• Jessica Shi
• Namrata Shivagunde (UMass Lowell)
• Prof. Julian Shun
• Prof. Suvrit Sra
• Jun Wan
• Yu Xia
• Hanshen Xiao

Computational Biology

• Sameer Abraham
• Prof. Gil Alterovitz
• Dr. Vijay Govindarajan (Boston Children's Hospital)
• Dr. David Hoganson (Boston Children's Hospital)
• Dr. Nicoletta Cieri (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
• Kari Stromhaug
• Dr. Ayshwarya Subramanian (Broad Institute)

2020

Mathematics

• Yan Sheng Ang 
• Dr. Zeb Brady
• Kevin Chang
• Yongyi Chen
• Dr. Diego Cifuentes
• Dr. Nir Gadish 
• Christian Gaetz 
• Yibo Gao
• Dr. Jesse Geneson (Iowa State University)
• Feng Gui
• Eric Hanson (Brandeis University)
• Kai Huang 
• Dr. Zilin Jiang
• Pakawut Jiradilok
• Arun Kannan
• Andrey Khesin 
• Younhun Kim
• Yakov Kononov (Columbia University)
• Ishan Levy 
• Prof. Zhenkun Li (Stanford University)
• Chun Hong Lo
• Prof. Sergiy Merenkov (CCNY – CUNY)
• Prof. Alejandro Morales (UMass Amherst)
• Calder Morton-Ferguson
• Prof. Dhruv Ranganathan (Cambridge, UK)
• Prof. Laura Schaposnik (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Chengyang Shao
• Prof. James Unwin (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Kaavya Valiveti
• Alexander Vitanov
• Dr. Yunan Yang (Courant Institute, New York University)
• YiYu (Adela) Zhang 
• Prof. Michael Zieve (University of Michigan)

Computer Science

• Anish Athalye
• Dr. Igor Gilitschenski
• Kyle Hogan
• William Kuszmaul
• Guillaume Leclerc
• Vladislav Lialin (UMass Lowell)
• William Moses
• Prof. Anna Rumshisky (UMass Lowell)
• Prof. Raja Sambasivan (Tufts University)
• Sacha Servan-Schreiber
• Jessica Shi
• Prof. Julian Shun
• Jun Wan
• Yu Xia
• Hanshen Xiao

Computational Biology

• Dr. Pankaj Agrawal (Boston Children's Hospital)
• Prof. Gil Alterovitz
• Dr. Hattie Chung (Broad Institute)
• Dr. Nicoletta Cieri (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
• Dr. Maksim Imakaev
• Travis Law (Broad Institute)
• Dr. Tamara Ouspenskaia (Broad Institute)
• Kari Stromhaug
• Dr. Ayshwarya Subramanian (Broad Institute)
• Michael Truell

2019

Mathematics

• Dr. Zeb Brady
• Dr. Bolun Chen (Brandeis)
• Yongyi Chen
• Dr. Asaf Ferber
• Christian Gaetz 
• Yibo Gao
• Dr. Jesse Geneson (Iowa State University)
• Dr. Zilin Jiang
• Pakawut Jiradilok
• Daniil Kalinov
• Younhun Kim
• Luis Kumanduri
• Duncan Levear (Brandeis)
• Yau Wing Li
• Zhenkun Li
• Zhulin Li
• Chun Hong Lo
• Prof. Sergiy Merenkov (CCNY – CUNY)
• Ashwin Narayan
• Prof. Dhruv Ranganathan (Cambridge, UK)
• Anurag Rao (Braindeis)
• Christopher Ryba
• Prof. Laura Schaposnik (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Chengyang Shao
• Prof. James Unwin (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Kaavya Valiveti
• Guangyi Yue
• Yichi Zhang
• Yu Zhao

Computer Science

• Anish Athalye
• Dr. Igor Gilitschenski
• Dr. Yan Gu
• Kyle Hogan
• William Kuszmaul
• Albert Kwon
• Guillaume Leclerc
• William Moses
• Dr. Raja Sambasivan (Boston University)
• Trishita Tiwari (Boston University)
• Alin Tomescu
• Prof. Ari Trachtenberg (Boston University)
• Dimitris Tsipras
• Jun Wan

Computational Biology

• Sameer Abraham
• Prof. Gil Alterovitz
• Dr. Hattie Chung (Broad Institute)
• Martin Falk
• Dr. Travis Law (Broad Institute)
• Dr. Insung Na (Boston Children's Hospital)
• Dr. Tamara Ouspenskaia (Broad Institute)
• Dr. Ayshwarya Subramanian (Broad Institute)
• Michael Truell

2018

Mathematics

• Andrew Ahn
• Zeb Brady
• Robert Burklund
• Yongyi Chen
• Sanath Devalapurkar
• Dr. Claude Eicher
• Dr. Asaf Ferber
• Christian Gaetz 
• Dr. Jesse Geneson
• Daniil Kalinov
• Hyun Jong Kim
• Zhenkun Li
• Zhulin Li
• Dr. Jianfeng Lin
• Chun Hong Lo
• Prof. Sergiy Merenkov (CCNY – CUNY)
• Prof. Alejandro Morales (UMass Amherst)
• Dr. Florian Naef
• Dr. Elina Robeva
• Christopher Ryba
• Andrew Rzeznik
• Prof. Laura Schaposnik (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Ao Sun
• Prof. James Unwin (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Aleksandra Utiralova
• Dr. Xiaomeng Xu
• Guangyi Yue
• Yu Zhao

Computer Science and Computational Biology

• Prof. Gil Alterovitz
• Kevin Ellis
• Dr. Mahmoud Ghandi (Broad Institute)
• Jon Gjengset
• Kyle Hogan
• Albert Kwon
• William Moses
• Dr. Raja Sambasivan (Boston University)
• Alin Tomescu
• Dimitris Tsipras

2017

Mathematics

• Andrew Ahn
• Prof. Jayadev Athreya (University of Washington)
• Prof. Moira Chas (SUNY at Stony Brook)
• Yongyi Chen
• Robin Elliott
• Jesse Freeman
• Christian Gaetz 
• Dr. Jesse Geneson
• Chiheon Kim
• Younhun Kim
• Dmitry Kubrak
• William Kuszmaul (Stanford University)
• Zhenkun Li
• Zhulin Li
• Svetlana Makarova
• Lucas Mason-Brown
• Prof. Sergiy Merenkov (CCNY – CUNY)
• Alexey Pakharev (Northeastern University)
• Dr. Dhruv Ranganathan
• Christopher Ryba
• Andrew Rzeznik
• Prof. Laura Schaposnik (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Andrew Senger
• Boya Song
• Ao Sun
• Dr. Shen-Fu Tsai (Google)
• Prof. Alex Townsend (Cornell University)
• Prof. James Unwin (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Siddharth Venkatesh
• Prof. Grady Wright (Boise State University)
• Dr. Xiaomeng Xu
• Guangyi Yue
• Yan Zhuang (Brandeis University)
• Prof. Michael Zieve (University of Michigan)

Computer Science and Computational Biology

• Nezar Abdennur
• Prof. Gil Alterovitz
• Cody Cutler
• Kevin Ellis
• Dr. Mahmoud Ghandi (Broad Institute)
• Daniel Goodwin
• Ethan Heilman (Boston University)
• Dr. Jason Hennessey (Boston University)
• Kyle Hogan (Boston University)
• Albert Kwon
• Dr. Adam Marblestone
• Michael Plotkin (IPG)
• Ling Ren
• Dr. Raja Sambasivan (Boston University)
• Alin Tomescu
• Dr. Mayank Varia (Boston University)
• Prof. John Williams

2016

Mathematics

• Vishal Arul
• Prof. Jayadev Athreya (University of Washington)
• Hood Chatham
• Atticus Christensen
• David Corwin
• Sheela Devadas (Stanford University)
• Jesse Geneson
• Xiaoyu He (Harvard University)
• Boris Kadets
• Chiheon Kim
• Hyun Jong Kim
• William Kuszmaul (Stanford University)
• Zhenkun Li
• Gus Lonergan
• Lucas Mason-Brown
• Akhil Mathew
• Prof. Sergiy Merenkov (CCNY – CUNY)
• Andrew Rzeznik
• Prof. Laura Schaposnik (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Seth Shelley-Abramson
• Ao Sun
• Piotr Suwara
• Peter Tian (Harvard University)
• Dr. Alex Townsend
• Nicolas Triantafillou
• Umut Varolgunes
• Siddharth Venkatesh
• Ben Yang
• Guangyi Yue
• Prof. Michael Zieve (University of Michigan)

Computer Science

• Prof. Gil Alterovitz
• Cody Cutler
• Daniel Goodwin
• Dr. Jason Hennessey (Boston University)
• Kyle Hogan (Boston University)
• Albert Kwon
• Dr. Adam Marblestone
• Ling Ren
• Xiangyao Yu
• Dr. Mayank Varia (Boston University)

Computational and Physical Biology

• Nezar Abdennur
• Dr. Geoffrey Fudenberg
• Mahmoud Ghandi (Broad Institute)

2015

Mathematics

• David Corwin
• Thao Thi Thu Do
• Miriam Farber
• Pavel Galashin
• Jesse Geneson
• Darij Grinberg
• Nathan Harman
• Chiheon Kim
• Alisa Knizel
• Carl Lian (Columbia University)
• Augustus Lonergan
• Lyuboslav Panchev
• Aaron Potechin
• Andrew Rzeznik
• Seth Shelley-Abrahamson
• Siddharth Venkatesh
• Adrian Vladu
• Jonathan Weed
• Yufei Zhao

Computer Science

• Dr. Gil Alterovitz
• Cody Cutler
• Soheil Feizi
• Dr. Natasha Markuzon (Draper Lab)
• Albert Kwon
• Ling Ren
• Rohit Singh
• Angela Yen
• Xiangyao Yu

Computational and Physical Biology

• Geoffrey Fudenberg
• Maksim Imakaev

2014

Mathematics

• David Corwin
• Peter Csikvari
• Jesse Geneson
• Sherry Gong
• Darij Grinberg
• Benjamin Iriarte
• Chiheon Kim
• Alisa Knizel
• Augustus Lonergan
• Laszlo Miklos Lovasz
• Akhil Mathew (Harvard University)
• Rik Sengupta
• Wuttisak Trongsiriwat
• Umut Varolgunes
• Dr. Aaron Welters
• Ben Yang
• Yufei Zhao

Computer Science

• Dr. Gil Alterovitz
• Cody Cutler
• Soheil Feizi
• Tom Howard
• Ling Ren
• Rishabh Singh
• Christos Tzamos
• Matt Weinberg
• Angela Yen
• Xiangyao Yu

Computational and Physical Biology

• Geoffrey Fudenberg
• Maksim Imakaev

2013

Mathematics

• Sergei Bernstein
• Alex Ellis
• Dr. Yael Fregier
• Jesse Geneson
• Darij Grinberg
• Andrey Grinshpun
• Chiheon Kim
• Laszlo Miklos Lovasz
• Tue Ly (Brandeis University)
• Akhil Mathew (Harvard University)
• Vinoth Nandakumar
• Rik Sengupta
• Daniel Thompson

Computer Science

• Dr. Gil Alterovitz
• Benjamin Barenblat
• Austin Clements
• Drew Haven
• Dr. Natasha Markuzon (Draper Lab)
• Wuttisak Trongsiriwat
• Stephen Tu
• Christos Tzamos
• Dr. Luke Ward
• Matt Weinberg
• Angela Yen
• Dr. Amin Zollanvari

Computational and Physical Biology

• Geoffrey Fudenberg
• Anton Goloborodko
• Maksim Imakaev

2012

Mathematics

• Sergei Bernstein
• Jesse Geneson
• Darij Grinberg
• Dr. Joel Lewis
• Nan Li
• Tue Ly (Brandeis University)
• Steven Sam
• Sasha Tsymbaliuk
• Yan Zhang

Computer Science

• Dr. Gil Alterovitz
• Alex Arkhipov
• Jon Brookshire
• William Li
• Dr. Peter Musial
• Dr. Jeremy Warner
• Jean Yang
• Dr. Amin Zollanvari

Computational and Physical Biology

• Geoffrey Fudenberg
• Maksim Imakaev

2011

Mathematics

• Giorgia Fortuna
• David Jordan
• Alejandro Morales
• Steven Sam
• Sasha Tsymbaliuk
• Yan Zhang

Computational and Physical Biology

• Geoffrey Fudenberg
• Maksim Imakaev
• Christopher McFarland

Contact

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