LUCID MENTORS

Meet the people raising the ceiling on student work.

Researchers, engineers, founders, and STEM competition winners—matched to students because they have already done the kind of work being pursued.

FOUNDERS + PROGRAM LEADS

Who is leading each track, and why students should trust them with serious technical work.

Physical AI & RoboticsKaden Cassidy

Leads robotics, physical AI, and systems work for students building agents that perceive, plan, and act.

Led autonomous software for a FIRST World Championship Inspire Award-winning team.

NASA

RISC-V

AI Agents & Research SystemsParth Kocheta

Leads applied-AI and research-system work for students turning technical questions into measurable projects.

Won the $10,000 Massachusetts Science and Engineering Fair Overall Grand Prize.

MSEFUniversity of Maryland

Experience and recognition across

MENTORS

Founder · AI research mentor

Parth Kocheta

AI builder and science-fair mentor working across applied machine learning, scientific research, and student project development.

$10,000 Massachusetts Science Fair Grand Prize winner
AI research at Carnegie Mellon AirLab
Two machine-learning internships at Sanofi
Founded programs serving 150+ students

MSEFUniversity of Maryland

Physical AI, robotics and computer-systems lead

Kaden Cassidy

Robotics and computer-systems mentor focused on autonomous systems, processor design, hardware/software co-design, and technical product development.

Authored 600+ RISC-V Vector certification tests
Led autonomous software for a FIRST World Championship Inspire Award-winning team
Helped unblock NASA’s Lunar Autonomy Challenge simulation
Harvey Mudd · Applied Mathematics and Digital Systems

NASA

RISC-V

Senior mentor · Medical AI and applied machine learning

Vaibhav Mishra

Medical-AI researcher and technology founder working across ECG analysis, clinical language models, computational pathology, and research education.

Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar and ISEF Finalist
Published medical-AI research across JACC, AMIA, and ML4H
Medical-AI research with Stanford Medicine and Dana-Farber/Harvard Medical School
Georgia Tech computer-science graduate

Georgia TechStanford MedicineDana-FarberJACCAMIAML4H

Mentor · Wireless sensing and physical-world AI

Pranay Kocheta

Wireless-sensing and applied-machine-learning researcher building systems that use low-cost wireless hardware and embedded AI to understand physical-world activity.