PRIMES: Mentors

Mathematics

Sergei Bernstein is a math major at MIT. He has been teaching classes at Splash! and Spark! since 2010. In 2012 at PRIMES he co-mentored William Kuszmaul and Ziling Zhou, who became regional finalists at the 2012 Siemens competition.

	Irving Dai is a junior at Harvard studying mathematics and physics. He went to PROMYS several times as a student and then a counselor. Last summer, he did some joint research in infinite-measure ergodic theory at the SMALL REU at Williams College.
	Yaël Frégier is a Post-Doctoral researcher at MIT and an associate Professor of Mathematics on leave from University of Artois (France). His fields of research are Operads, Poisson geometry and deformation theory. He has been tutoring winners of the German National Mathematics Competition in 2012.
	Jesse Geneson is an applied math graduate student. He was an RSI mentor in 2011-2012 and a PRIMES mentor in 2012. His RSI student, Sitan Chen, won the 3rd Prize at 2011 Siemens Competition and became a national finalist at 2012 Intel STS; two other RSI students became Intel STS semifinalists, and one became a Siemens semifinalist. His PRIMES students, Jonathan Tidor and Rohil Prasad, won the 5th Prize at the 2012 Siemens Competition.
	Darij Grinberg is a Ph.D. student in the Mathematics Department. His field of interest is algebra, especially constructive algebra, representation theory and algebraic combinatorics. In 2012 at PRIMES he co-mentored William Kuszmaul and Ziling Zhou, who became regional finalists at the 2012 Siemens competition.
	Chiheon Kim is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mathematics at MIT. His research interests includes combinatorial optimization and discrete geometry.
	Laszlo Miklos Lovasz is a Ph.D. student in the Math department at MIT. His research interests include extremal combinatorics, graph theory, and algebra.
	Tue Ly is a Ph.D. student at Brandeis University. His research interests are algebraic dynamics, arithmetic geometry, and number theory. In 2012 at PRIMES he mentored Saarik Kalia and Michael Zanger-Tishler, who became regional semifinalists at the 2012 Siemens competition.
	Akhil Mathew is a math major at Harvard. He has taught classes for high school students through Harvard's and MIT's HSSP program. He participated in the RSI program in 2009 as a student and won the 3rd prize in Intel STS and also ranked 3rd in mathematics at ISEF.
	Wuttisak Trongsiriwat is a Ph.D. student in the mathematics department at MIT. His research is in enumerative and algebraic combinatorics. He was an RSI mentor in 2011.
	Yufei Zhao is a Ph.D. student in the MIT Math Department. His research interests include extremal and probabilistic combinatorics and graph theory.

Computer Science

Dr. Gil Alterovitz is at the Harvard/MIT Health Sciences and Technology Division Children's Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP). He is also affiliated with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and Harvard Medical School Partners' Center for Genetics and Genomics (HPCGG). He is involved in developing methods for studying biological networks and signal processing within proteomics. In 2012 at PRIMES he mentored Peijin Zhang, who became a regional finalist at the 2012 Siemens competition..

	Benjamin Barenblat, a computer science undergraduate at MIT, is currently researching functional programming with CSAIL's Programming Languages and Verification Group. Benjamin has worked as a undergraduate lab assistant several times and served as a teacher assistant for 6.S184, a condensed IAP version of the infamous 6.001, in January 2013.
	Austin Clements is an n-th year Ph.D. student at MIT. He has been teaching undergraduate and graduate computer science courses since he himself was an undergraduate. His research focuses on principled techniques in scalable operating system design and his past research has ranged from transactional caching to deduplicated file systems to extension-oriented compilers.
	Drew Haven is an M.Eng. student at MIT in computer science. He is currently researching in the Programming Languages and Verification Group at CSAIL, focusing on interactive theorem provers in a teaching context.
	Christos Tzamos is a second-year graduate student in the theory of computation group at CSAIL, MIT. He is interested in Algorithmic Game Theory, Machine Learning as well as in the Design, Analysis and Theory of Algorithms.
	Matt Weinberg is a third year PhD student in the Theory of Computation Group in CSAIL at MIT. He is interested in algorithms and algorithmic game theory, and mechanism design in particular.
	Dr. Luke Ward is a postdoctoral computational biologist at MIT. His research integrates functional and population genomics data to yield insights into human evolutionary history and the genetic basis of disease.
	Angela Yen is a Ph.D. student in the EECS Department at MIT. She researches in the Computational Biology group. She is especially interested in research related to epigenomics and population variation.

Computational and Physical Biology

	Geoff Fudenberg is a PhD student in Biophysics at Harvard. His research interest is 3D Genome Organization: physical models, statistical methods, and comparative genomics. He was a PRIMES mentor in 2011-2012.
	Anton Goloborodko is a PhD student at MIT Physics. His research interests are 3D genome organization, evolutionary dynamics, and polymer physics.
	Maksim Imakaev is a PhD student in the Physics Department at MIT. His research interest is 3D Genome Organization. He was a PRIMES mentor in 2011-2012.

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