Our Mentors

Lumiere Foundation’s research mentors are world-class researchers in their fields. They represent the very pinnacle of academia. They come fream leading universities around the world and are working on cutting-edge research in their fields. All our mentors carefully selected by our team after live interviews, an application, and go through Lumiere training.

Our Mentors at a Glance

Our mentors are either in a selective PhD program or have recently finished their PhDs in a diverse range of disciplines.

450+

Mentors with the Lumiere Foundation

16

Disciplines represented from STEM to humanities

75+

Institutions from where volunteer mentors join us

  • Dominic Othneil Chang

    • Harvard University, PhD Physics '24

    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute, BS Physics '18

    • Research Interests: Blackhole modelling (computer implementations of concepts) & blackhole theory

  • Parijat Banerjee

    • Johns Hopkins University, PhD Physics ‘24

    • Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, BS-MS Physics ‘18

    • Research Interests: Computational biology

  • Alessandro Lodesani

    • Massacheusetts Institute of Technology, Postdoc

    • Polytechnic of Milan, PhD Physics '21

    • Polytechnic of Milan, MS Engineering Physics '17

    • Research Interests: Quantum computing, spitrionics

  • Radhika Santhanagopalan

    • University of Chicago, PhD Business & Psychology '24

    • Cornell University, MS Psychology '19

    • University of Michigan, BCN ‘16

    • Research Interests: Social psychology

  • Krithika Jagannath

    • University of California, Irvine, PhD Informatics ‘21

    • Harvard University, MS Learning Science ‘14

    • Bangalore University, BE CS and Engineering ‘00

    • Research areas: Human-Computer Interaction