Faculty

Our faculty is carefully selected from Wolfram Research employees and highly accomplished external experts. We choose our faculty for their strong subject knowledge, their experience with students and their real-world work in science and technology.

Directors

Rory Foulger

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Camp Director

Rory joined Wolfram in 2019 as the Instructional Designer and Technologist. Rory graduated as part of the first graduating class at Minerva Schools, where they studied computational sciences alongside a broad, problem-based curriculum. They are currently working on their MA in education and technology, specializing in curriculum design for alternative education environments. Rory is passionate about education and youth justice, as well as decision science, problem solving and technology.

Megan Davis

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Academic Director

Megan joined Wolfram in May of 2019 as a Technologist after completing her MS in mathematics at DePaul University. She now works at Wolfram|Alpha in the Design Analysis group as a Software Engineer. In addition to studying mathematics, Megan is a professional dancer based in Chicago, Illinois. She enjoys dabbling in various areas of analysis and computer science and likes finding unique ways to integrate the two together with her dance background.

Carol Cronin

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Admissions Director

Carol Cronin joined Wolfram in 1996 and leads the program administration for educational initiatives, including Wolfram Sponsorships, the Wolfram Foundation and the Wolfram Summer Programs. She attended Eastern Illinois University and has six kids. She is a court-appointed special advocate and guardian ad litem for foster children in her community, and has served on her school district's Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee.

Mentors

Adiba Shaikh

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Mentor

Adiba is currently pursuing a PhD in physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Although her research area is focused in theoretical physics, she is interested in conducting experiments and using computational tools to demonstrate physical ideas. Working at the intersection of high-energy (nuclear) physics, computational physics, mathematics and group theory, she uses the Wolfram Language in her work. She participated in the Wolfram India School 2022 and has a keen interest in undertaking teaching initiatives for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Carolyn Applebaum

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Mentor

Carolyn "CJ" Applebaum is a Linguistic Programmer for Wolfram|Alpha who loves exploring the intersection of humanities and technology. She received a BA in linguistics, with a minor in digital humanities, from the University of Chicago and worked part time as a professional stagehand while obtaining her degree. Some of her academic interests include exploring how the internet has shaped language use, learning about how technology can help disabled people communicate, programming theatrical lighting/sound systems and breaking down the barriers between humanities and STEM fields. As a queer Jewish woman with a learning disability, she loves helping other minorities succeed. Outside work, she loves to sing and read fantasy novels.

Diya Elizabeth

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Mentor

Diya is a student at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, pursuing an integrated master's degree in mathematics with a minor in data science. In her free time, she enjoys sketching, learning languages and taking long walks. She hopes to pursue a PhD in pure mathematics in the future.

Eryn Gillam

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Mentor

Eryn joined Wolfram in 2021 as the Technical Team Lead for Public Relations, having previously interned at Wolfram. They graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in materials science and engineering, focusing on computational modeling. This will be Eryn's fourth year as a mentor at the Wolfram High School Summer Camp. In their free time, they enjoy various creative hobbies, including knitting, baking and painting.

Isabel Skidmore

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Mentor

Isabel works at Wolfram as the Lead Nutrition Developer, where they direct food content development in Wolfram|Alpha. During their time pursuing a degree in integrative biology, they conducted research on the symbiotic relationships between bacteria and insects. They enjoyed using technology and programming to sequence genomes, model population dynamics and understand metabolic interactions. Since joining Wolfram in 2019, they have enjoyed working with the Wolfram Language in both professional and personal applications. In their free time, they enjoy playing in local bands, drawing, printmaking, 3D modeling and gaming.

James Choi

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Mentor

James Choi has worked as a researcher at several global companies, such as Siemens, Motorola, Aon and Borg Warner. His research topics include 3D medical image reconstruction, automatic electronic circuit inspection, earthquake damage prediction, etc. He finds it baffling that computers have made so little difference in math education so far. In fact, he feels math, physics and computer science should not even be separate subjects because he has never seen a problem in the real world that can be solved without using all three at the same time.

Kurt Gimbel

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Mentor

Kurt Gimbel first joined Wolfram Research in 2001 and has since been watching over front end and cloud functionality as part of the Quality Assurance group. His primary task is to get annoyed by things that don't work before anyone else notices. He focuses on continuous incremental improvement and, as a side effect, has slowly become unconcerned about describing anything as broken. His background includes a BS in computer science and graduate study in nuclear engineering with a focus on plasmas for fusion.

Kyle Keane

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Mentor

Dr. Kyle Keane is a computational scientist with 15 years of extensive and continual R&D and teaching experience throughout academic, corporate and startup settings. Recently, he has explored the intersection of human, natural and artificial intelligence at the MIT College of Computing's Quest for Intelligence, where his research project focused on the intersection of cognition and learning in humans and machines. Previously, Kyle served at a Lecturer at MIT and taught classes in applied computational models across many departments, as well as designing and teaching the class Principles and Practices of Assistive Technology. At Wolfram, Kyle has worked as a Research Programmer on many projects, including integrating Wolfram|Alpha with Apple's Siri.

Noemi Chulo

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Mentor

Noemi is a computer science and pure mathematics double major at UC Berkeley. She attended the Wolfram High School Summer Camp and Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program in 2020 and taught at the Wolfram High School Summer Camp and Wolfram Middle School Summer Camp in 2021. She's interested in the study of competition through computational means. Noemi has long had an interest in teaching, which she hopes to utilize by becoming a research professor in the future. Teaching STEM for so long has made her particularly aware of issues of inequity in STEM and drives her passion to help fix it. Outside of teaching, research and school, Noemi enjoys visual art and spending time with her cat.

Peter Barendse

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Mentor

Peter attended the University of Vermont and received his PhD in mathematics from Boston University in 2010, and he has taught at several top Boston-area universities, as well as community colleges, community centers and a prison. The topic of his dissertation was in the combinatorial logic of infinities, but his scholarly and teaching interests include Mathematica, dynamical systems, theoretical computer science, physics, philosophy and economics. Besides these, he enjoys playing sports, making music, debating, watching and making movies, traveling, and creating and destroying stuff.

Rahul Sharma

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Mentor

Rahul is an MS student at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal. His current research uses machine learning models to analyze data from various spectroscopic techniques. He is also pursuing a data science minor. He has a passion for learning and is happy to discuss any exciting ideas with anyone. He was a student at the Wolfram Summer School in 2021 and joined Wolfram as an Intern in September of the same year. He also worked as a TA for the Wolfram India School 2022. Besides all that, he likes to read comics, is your go-to expert in Star Wars lore and loves to sleep.

Simeon Buttery

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Mentor

Simeon Buttery is majoring in civil engineering at UC Davis. During high school, he attended and then became president of the CT@TP club, wherein he used the Wolfram Language to create and run activities as well as learned new ways to approach problems. Simeon attended the 2019, 2020 and 2021 Wolfram High School Summer Camps as a student, as a TA and then as Lead TA, respectively. Other than exploring the Wolfram Language, Simeon enjoys tinkering with engineering projects and competing nationally in archery.

Teaching Assistants

Anika Patel

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Lead Teaching Assistant

Anika participated in the 2020 Wolfram High School Summer Camp and was subsequently selected for the 2020 Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program. She has experience with geographical, linguistic and math-heavy projects in the Wolfram Language, Python and C#. Anika is in the class of 2022 for the Loudoun Academy of Science, where she has been researching the creation of a partial exoskeleton to assist knee rehabilitation. In her free time, she loves to play the violin, do taekwondo and play video games.

Logan Gilbert

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Teaching Assistant

Logan Gilbert attends a performing arts high school, majoring in violin. While in middle school, he was also a student at a local college and took math courses such as Modern Algebra and Complex Analysis. He attended the Wolfram High School Summer Camp in 2020 and 2021 and participated in the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program twice. In addition to his passion for math and for music, he has a strong interest in physics and astronomy. He enjoys collaborating in math research—particularly in the areas of graph theory, number theory and linear algebra. Other interests include attending math conferences, coding, playing video games with friends and spoiling his two dogs.

Macy Levin

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Teaching Assistant

Macy is a 2022 graduate of Stanford University's online high school. She loves science, math, philosophy, Russian literature and programming. In her free time, she enjoys participating in and watching theater, riding horses, playing violin, reading, and editing videos. She hopes to pursue a career in astrophysics, cosmology and the philosophy of science.

Megha Narayanan

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Teaching Assistant

Megha Narayanan is a STEM enthusiast and has been competing in the FLL and VEX robotics competitions since third grade. She has participated in numerous competitions in the US and Asia, with two world championship awards. She loves to work with younger children and has mentored several elementary school FLL teams, in addition to being a peer tutor at her school and being a TA at the Wolfram Middle School Summer Camp in 2021. Besides her STEM interests, Megha loves reading, playing cards and cooking for her friends and family.

Nika Chuzhoy

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Teaching Assistant

Nika is a high-school student from Illinois. She attended the Wolfram High School Summer Camp in 2021 and subsequently participated in the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program, where she worked on a project to analyze the information density of texts. She plans to major in computer science but is also deeply interested in mathematics and data science. In her spare time, she enjoys woodworking, reading science fiction and working on her Russian and Hebrew.

Theo Moustakas

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Teaching Assistant

Theo Moustakas is a curious student who has always held deep interest in music programs and science classes. His favorite courses include physics, algebra and geometry. He participates in multiple musical ensembles, including the school wind ensemble and marching band. He was accepted into the audition-based Western International Band Clinic in 2020, where many mentors and other influential figures helped shape his talents and mindset.

Unnathi Kumar

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Teaching Assistant

Unnathi is a high-school student from India. She is interested in computer science, specifically human-computer interaction and machine learning. Alongside that, she is extremely passionate about promoting women in technology and strives to bridge the gender gap in technological fields with her non-profit initiative, girls.exe. Unnathi attended the Wolfram High School Summer Camp and the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program in 2021. In her free time, you’ll likely find her reading feminist literature, editing a scientific article or coding another project.

Yana Outkin

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Teaching Assistant

Yana is the founder of her high school's Girls Who Code club, where they create projects ranging from programming games to using the Wolfram Language to create computational art. She attended the Wolfram High School Summer Camp in 2021 and had a lot of fun working on her project visualizing 4D cellular automata. Following the camp, she attended the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program, where her team worked on using the Wolfram Language to create adversarial pair AIs to play simple combinatorial games. In her free time, Yana enjoys learning German, longboarding and playing tennis.