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Wolfram High School
Summer Research Program

Bentley University, Boston, MA June 25–July 12, 2025

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. Our teaching assistants are selected from the top-performing alumni of the Wolfram High School Summer Research Program and the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program.

Directors

Rory Foulger

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Program Director

Rory joined Wolfram in 2019, and is currently the Pre-College Education Programs Manager. Rory graduated as part of the first graduating class at Minerva University, where he received a BS in computational sciences. While working at Wolfram, Rory gained an MA in education and technology from University College London, and is currently working on an MA in video game development. Rory's academic studies have focused on data science, statistics and designing software to improve educational experiences for gifted students. This is Rory's fifth year as Program Director for the Wolfram Summer Research Program, and they also run the Wolfram Middle School Summer Camp and the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program. Rory is passionate about gifted education, radical pedagogy and youth justice.

Eryn Gillam

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Academic Director

Eryn joined Wolfram in 2021 as the Technical Team Lead for Public Relations, and is now a part of the Pre-College Education Programs team. They graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in materials science and engineering, focusing on computational modeling. This is their second year as Academic Director. Before becoming Academic Director, Eryn was a mentor at the Wolfram Summer Research Program for four years. In their free time, they enjoy various creative hobbies, including knitting, baking and painting.

Megan Davis

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Academic Director

Megan joined Wolfram in May of 2019 as a Technologist after completing their MS in mathematics at DePaul University. They now work at Wolfram|Alpha as the Manager of Design Analysis. Additionally, Megan is a dance teacher and performs in Chicago, Illinois, and volunteers for various tech, queer and dance nonprofits.

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

Adam Millar

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Mentor

Adam is a logician with a background in foundations of mathematics and methodology of science, with degrees from Princeton University and Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests center around constructivist mathematics, formalization and generally the methodology and epistemology of mathematics. Adam has a particular fascination with how sometimes "lofty" epistemic ideas pop up as useful design/methodological practices, and a conviction that mathematical progress can be made via purely methodological investigations.

Carlos Merardo Angulo Zumaeta

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Mentor

Born and raised in Peru, Carlos is a third-year BSc Economics student at the University of Warwick in the UK. His research is focused on welfare economics, micro-econometric techniques, comparative statics and competition policy. He came across Wolfram Language when he received an undergraduate research grant, scoring the highest amongst all applications in Warwick's Department of Economics. By coding interactive visualization tools for 35+ topics in economics, statistics and finance, Carlos is helping students build their intuition independently from class material. He promotes computational economics and applied mathematics in Wolfram Language through social media to undergraduate and high-school students, providing them with review guides and worked solutions to problems.

Carolyn (CJ) Applebaum

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Mentor

Carolyn J. Applebaum is excited to return for her third summer as a mentor at the Wolfram Summer Research Program. She works full-time as a linguistic programmer for Wolfram|Alpha and most recently has contributed to the development of the Wolfram|Alpha ChatGPT plugin. She has a degree in linguistics, with a minor in digital humanities, from the University of Chicago, and her academic/professional interests lie at the intersection of language and technology. When not at work, she sings in a chorus and reads too many novels.

Daniele Ceravolo

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Mentor

Daniele Ceravolo is a developer on the Wolfram|Alpha math team, where he creates new physics content for the Wolfram|Alpha website. His main scientific interests regard quantum field theory and general relativity. Other than science and math, Daniele enjoys literature and creating games.

David DeBrota

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Mentor

David began using Mathematica with Version 2.0, and has been an avid user ever since. He has attended multiple Wolfram events over the years, most recently participating in the Wolfram Summer School in 2023. He retired from Eli Lilly in 2017, having used Wolfram technologies extensively during his 27 years there as a drug developer.

Drake Hayes

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Mentor

Drake Hayes is a student at Wabash College pursuing majors in mathematics and computer science and a minor in religion. At Wabash College, he runs track and cross country. He's also a member of the Asian Culture Club and the fraternity Phi Gamma Delta. He attended the Wolfram Summer Research Program and the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program in 2019 as a student, and he was a Teaching Assistant in 2021. Using Wolfram Language, Drake has created simulations of binary star systems, generated models of how diseases spread through populations and performed voltage and current waveform analyses. In his free time, Drake enjoys playing chess, watching YouTube and reading about Russian history.

Dugan Hammock

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Mentor

Dugan is a mathematician and an artist with a focus on geometry and visualization. His research interests include minimal surfaces, quasicrystals and aperiodic tilings. He also enjoys finding new ways to visualize four-dimensional hypershapes. His notable Wolfram Community posts include essays about animating the Penrose tiling, manipulating slices of a hypertorus, computing 4D regular polytopes and visualizing the evolution of hypergraphs for the Wolfram Physics Project.

Felipe Amorim

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Mentor

Felipe joined Wolfram in 2022 as an intern and is currently the Project Manager for the Resource System team, which, among other tasks, maintains the various Wolfram repositories. Felipe graduated from Ave Maria University with a degree in physics. Other than math and science, Felipe enjoys books and sports.

Henry Gustafson

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Mentor

Henry is passionate about math and computer science, in particular mathematical logic and the foundations of math. He has participated in both the Wolfram Summer Research Program and the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program several years, working on projects like sub-axiomatic foundations of group theory in combinators and cellular automata models of traffic. Henry also enjoys competition math (his favorite is BAMO). At school, he is on the math, computer science, policy debate and baseball teams. In his free time, Henry likes to read science fiction and play chess and other board games.

Jack Heseltine

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Mentor

Jack is completing his master's in artificial intelligence in Austria, at Johannes Kepler University, working on LLMs for accessible document preparation. He has several years of experience as a software developer and currently works as a consultant for Wolfram Research as a software engineer in the Cloud team, alongside his graduate work.

Jesús Adrián Montesinos Correa

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Mentor

Montesinos is interested in artificial intelligence, math, electromagnetism and solving programming challenges. He presented the topic Comparison of Papers of English and Non-English Speakers in Physics at the Wolfram Technology Conference in 2023 and is a Wolfram Student Ambassador. He loves collaborating with people in AI-NLP and math-physics areas, attending conferences and networking to expand his vision.

Karan Chakravarthy

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Mentor

Karan is an avid surfer and loves everything to do with the ocean. The time he spends in the water has led him to become involved in activities related to preserving the health of the oceans. He attended the Wolfram High School Summer Research Program and the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program in 2022, and then served as a Teaching Assistant at the High School Summer Research Program last year. His interests include coding, physics and math, where he gets more opportunity to develop his Wolfram skills. In his free time, Karan enjoys playing fingerstyle guitar, making pop-up greeting cards and hanging out with his brothers.

Lusine Sukiasyan

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Mentor

Lusine is an applied mathematician, and since 2019 she's been working at Wolfram on the Discrete Computation team as a kernel developer. She holds a bachelor's degree in informatics and applied mathematics and a master's degree in numerical analysis and mathematical modeling, both from Yerevan State University. As a part of the Discrete Computation group, Lusine works on projects related to development, documentation for number theory and geometry functionality, and also on books and courses about number theory for Wolfram U. She immensely enjoys the research she does in mathematics for all the projects, mainly in number theory, calculus and geometry. Lusine's other big passions in life are music, films, books and tennis.

Lyman Hurd

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Mentor

Lyman earned a PhD in mathematics at Princeton with a doctoral dissertation about cellular automata. From there he moved to the Chaos Group at the University of Maryland. Eventually he left academe to join a company and has been a software engineer at several companies, including Google. Even after leaving academe, he has continued to consider teaching a major part of his responsibility.

Macy Levin

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Mentor

Macy is currently an undergraduate taking courses at Harvard Extension School, majoring in philosophy. She attended the Wolfram High School Summer Research Program in 2018–2020, taught at the Wolfram Middle School Summer Camp in 2021 and 2023 and was a teaching assistant at the Wolfram Summer Research Program in 2022–2023. Outside of academia, her main interests are in literature, music and East Asian studies.

Mariah Laugesen

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Mentor

Mariah Laugesen (Mariel) joined Wolfram part time in 2021 while working on her bachelor's degree in mathematics and Spanish at the University of Illinois. In 2022, she joined Wolfram full time as a developer for Wolfram U, where she uses Wolfram Language to deploy interactive course websites, simplify recurring tasks for her coworkers and more. In her free time, Mariel enjoys digitizing public-domain works, translating song lyrics and shuttle lacemaking.

Shenghui Yang

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Mentor

Shenghui is very experienced in Wolfram Language for both development and teaching, and online community contribution. His unique mentoring and writing style attract a large audience online. Shenghui's advanced problem-solving skill demonstrates the power of Wolfram Language for competitive math training and computer science algorithm learning courses. He has contributed over 70 staff-picked blogs on Wolfram Community and many videos on problem solving for the Wolfram Technology Conference, R&D Live and Artisan Calculus in Wolfram U.

William Wei

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Mentor

William is a rising freshman at Yale University. He enjoys tennis, coding, jazz (anything music, to be honest) and late-night drives. He attended and served as a Teaching Assistant for the Wolfram Summer Research Program in 2022 and 2023 and the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program in 2022, and he has created Wolfram Language projects in the areas of computational music and fake-news detection.

Teaching Assistants

Logan Gilbert

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Lead Teaching Assistant

Logan 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 Summer Research Program in 2020 and 2021 and was a Teaching Assistant in 2022 and 2023. He has also attended the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program as a student in 2020, 2021 and 2022, and as a mentor in 2023. 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 real analysis. He performs in various ensembles, including orchestras, choirs and musicals. Other interests include attending math conferences, coding, playing video games with friends and spoiling his two dogs.

Zoya Brahimzadeh

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Teaching Assistant

Zoya Brahimzadeh is a high-school student who has always been intrigued by the world. She enjoys exploring her passions in STEM through clubs such as Robotics, Girls Who Code and Computer Science Club, but also through personal projects regarding a variety of things she's interested in. Ranging from fields of interest such as psychology, philosophy, neuroscience and robotics, she hopes to work with the cognitive sciences to understand how humans socialize. Outside of STEM, she enjoys walking her dog, giving impromptu speeches and exploring nature.

Alexander Do

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Teaching Assistant

Alexander is an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University studying applied mathematics and statistics and computational medicine. His interests lie in the union of computer science and mathematics to solve real-world problems. Having done research in the intersection of machine learning and medical image analysis, he has seen the ability of technology to be leveraged to create societal impact. He has competed in several computer science and mathematics competitions, earning Honorable Mention in the 2023 Mathematical Contest in Modeling, qualifying for ICPC NENA, being in the top 5% in the 2023 IMC Trading Prosperity competition and having qualified for the 2022 MathLeague National Championships. He is an Eagle Scout with 103 merit badges and enjoys his time in the outdoors.

Alisa Zaitseva

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Teaching Assistant

Alisa is a high-school student who has a deep passion for astronomy and space science. In 2023, she embraced the opportunity to learn computational thinking and problem solving using Wolfram Language and became a Wolfram Student Ambassador. The same year she attended the Wolfram Summer Research Program, completing the project Solar Panel Placement on Mars, and later joined the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program. With a sincere aspiration to contribute to the field of astronomy, she aims to engage in research that uncovers new insights and expands humanity's understanding of the universe. In her free time, she enjoys running and watching space mission launches. Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, she is fluent in English, Ukrainian and Russian.

Andrea Li

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Teaching Assistant

Andrea is a rising college student planning to major in computer science and minor in mathematics, economics or entrepreneurship. She is interested in theoretical computer science topics like game theory, graph theory and combinatorics. She has completed projects in Wolfram Language exploring the properties of math games including Dots and Boxes, Reversi and generalized Tic-Tac-Toe, along with modeling plants using 3D fractals. She attended the Wolfram High School Summer Research Program and Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program in 2023. In her free time, she loves baking, playing badminton and binging everything from crime/action shows to reality TV!

Anne Shuai

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Teaching Assistant

Anne Shuai is a high-school student who loves math, music and computer science. She participated in the Wolfram High School Summer Research Program and the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program in 2023. She is part of her school's Women in STEM and Mu Alpha Theta clubs, where she helps encourage younger students in STEM. When she's not studying, she's often found swimming, curled up with a good book or playing piano.

Dashel Myers

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Teaching Assistant

Dashel has participated in Wolfram's Student Ambassador Initiative for a year, where he enjoyed presenting on neuronal dynamics with the FitzHugh–Nagumo model at the annual Wolfram Technology Conference, competing in hackathons like the One-Liner Competition and coauthoring a pre-algebra textbook. In his leisure time, Dashel likes to explore areas at the intersection of incumbent and emerging fields and tries to look at the world through a contrarian framework, seeing opportunities where others don't. On the weekends, you may find him slurping a bowl of classic Tokyo ramen at a new Korean restaurant!

Jenny Wang

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Teaching Assistant

Jenny Wang is a current high schooler who has always loved STEM. She has previously attended the Wolfram Summer Research Program as well as the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program. She is especially interested in how computer science can apply to real-world issues and its intersections with other fields such as psychology and statistics. As a part of her school's magnet program, Jenny enjoys research and went to ISEF in 2023. In her free time, Jenny dances ballet and loves to read and write.

Nicolò Monti

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Teaching Assistant

Nicolò is a high-school student interested in rocketry, space and machine learning. His primary research interests are fuzzy automated reasoning systems. Aside from artificial intelligence, Nicolò is a big fan of everything space related and divides his time between his hobbies and reading the latest space news. He attended the Wolfram Summer Research Program and Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program in 2022 and was a Teaching Assistant in 2023.

Nora Popescu

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Teaching Assistant

Nora is a high-school student who is passionate about all possible subfields in psychology, neuroscience, political science and linguistics. She participated in the 2022 Wolfram Summer Research Program, where she did a linguistics project on the classification of English-language adjectives. Additionally, she worked on a group project in the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program that covered fake-news detection on Twitter and joined the 2023 Wolfram Summer Research Program as a Teaching Assistant. When she is not conducting research for her study on the influence of ludomusicology on memory encryption, you can find her playing cards with her friends, performing movie soundtracks with her orchestra, dancing or reading about the nichest topics.

Sofia Wang

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Teaching Assistant

A full-time high-school student, Sofia is passionate about computer science, math, data analysis and computational humanities. She participated in the 2023 Wolfram Summer Research Program and thoroughly enjoyed completing her project on evaluating different voting systems. She then participated in the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program to work on a research project on computational visualizations of photosynthesis. Alongside her love for STEM, Sofia enjoys visual arts and creative writing. She is also passionate about educating and teaching younger children across various academic subjects.

Sophie Chen

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Teaching Assistant

Sophie is a high-school student. She enjoys math, reading and computer science. She is especially intrigued by the intersection of math, programming and science. She likes learning computer languages and used Python and Java prior to learning of Wolfram. In her free time, she runs, plays tennis, goes birding and learns about French culture through books and movies. She also enjoys playing movie soundtracks, particularly those of Joe Hisaishi, on the piano.

Tianyi Evans Gu

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Teaching Assistant

Tianyi is a high-school student who loves coding and competing in hackathons, creative writing, playing tennis, card games and playing poker with friends. He loves exploring different ways in which technology can be used to create solutions to modern-day problems, whether it be through research or developing applications. He is particularly fascinated by large language models and artificial intelligence. He researched the linguistics of large language models as part of the 2023 Wolfram Summer Research Program and efficient machine learning as part of the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program. At school, Tianyi is also a part of the computer science club, debate society and chess club and is the Managing Editor for the school newspaper.

Tyler Rose

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Teaching Assistant

Tyler Rose is a motivated high-school student from Monta Vista High School in Cupertino. He has gained valuable experience through software development internships and contributing to projects at companies like Wolfram Research and Vortle. Tyler is passionate about leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance global wellbeing and has engaged in substantive research in bioinformatics and hydrology. As a founding member of South Bay Robotics, he actively promotes inclusive access to robotics education. Outside school, Tyler enjoys playing badminton and volunteering as a STEM tutor.