Mentor list 2026-2027

First Name	Last Name	Organization	Title
Lucas	Durand	TD Securities	Director - Data & AI
Greg	McFarquhar	University of Oklahoma	Professor, School of Meteorology & Director, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High Impact Weather Research & Operations
Emanuel	Istrate	University of Toronto, Victoria College	Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
Eric	Sjerve	Apave North America	CTO
Luke	Helt	Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc.	Software Manager
Kyuho	Lee	MIT	Postdoctoral Associate - Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Darrell	Tse	Goldman Sachs	Quantitative Trader, Vice President
Brian	Wilson	University of Toronto	Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
Helen	Kirk	National Research Council of Canada	Herzberg Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Centre; Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria
Johann	Bayer	University of Toronto Scarborough	Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
A.W.	Peet	University of Toronto	Professor, Physics
CJ	Woodford	Digital Research Alliance of Canada	Research Officer
Ronny	Thomas	University of Toronto	Medical Student (4th Year)
Mary	Hoang	Spectrum Power Systems	Technical Project Coordinator / Inside Sales Engineer
Milica	Ivetic	University of Toronto	Technical Services Associate (U of T) and Data Analyst (North/Nord: Canadian Shared Print Network)
Pekka	Sinervo	University of Toronto	Professor
Raia	Ottenheimer	Harvard University	Graduate Student
Minhal	Hasham	Optigon Inc	Founding Scientist
Leo	McKinnon	University of Toronto	Teaching Assistant
Lai Chung	Liu	Uncharted Software	Principal Research Scientist
Will	Perrie	Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Government of Canada	Research Scientist (Level 5)
Erich	Fernandes	TD Securities	Senior Operations Analyst (Coding and Architecture)
John	Januszczak	Oak Ridges Advisory	President
Stephen	Green	University of Nottingham	Principal Research Fellow
Heather	Watson	Union College	Ralph A. Alpher Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Sandra	Ross (prev. Zhitkova)	Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université	PhD Candidate in Astrophysics and Cosmology
Madeleine	Bonsma-Fisher	University of Toronto	Postdoctoral Fellow
Justin	Mah	Candu Energy (AtkinsRéalis)	Reactor Core Physicist
Alex	Cabaj	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Research Scientist
Bill	Hodges	University of Guelph	Academic Coordinator
Neil	Lambert	King's College London	Professor
Jeremy	Rothschild	Vinci4D.ai	Machine Learning Engineer / Researcher
Scott	Smale	Quantum Valley Ideas Lab	Senior Scientist
Harsh	Jaluka	Amazon	Software Engineer
Ramanjit	Sohal	University of Chicago	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Robert	Cordery	MaxEnt Research LLC	Technical Advisor
Deepak	Chandan	Skyward Wildfire Technologies	Data Scientist
Ivan	Ovchinnikov	University of Toronto	Graduate Student
Julius	Lindsay	The Prismatic Project	Co-Lead
Sidhartha	Goyal	University of Toronto	Professor - Research (Biophysics)
Sam	Paudel	UofT	Graduate Student
Santa	Borel	PwC Canada	Senior Manager, Data Trust and Privacy
Paul	Kushner	University of Toronto	Professor and Chair - Physics