Meet Our Mentors

Takudzwa Caitano graduated from Stanford with Honors in Econometrics & Quantitative Economics. He gained experience at Morgan Stanley, Google, and Bain & Company, developing expertise in financial analysis, product management, and consulting. At LionTree, he contributed to major M&A deals, including the MGM-Amazon merger. Now, he leads Qqura AI, a startup transforming customer support with AI, and mentors students aiming for top global universities.

Mario is Senior Lead of Revenue Operations at Brex, specializing in financial analysis and operational strategy. He holds a Master’s in Finance from Dom Cabral Foundation. His past roles include Senior Analyst at Vale, Associate at PwC, and President of FCAP Jr. Consultoria. He is certified in Valuation Analysis and advanced in Power BI and Alteryx, and is fluent in Portuguese, English, and intermediate Spanish.

Andrea is a Lecturer in Thermofluids at Imperial College London and a Bye-Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He earned his PhD in 2014 from the University of Florence and later became a Rolls-Royce Research Associate at Cambridge. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics, researching sustainability and multiphase flows.

For over a decade, Rutaban has worked in Australian non-profit organisations at the intersection of research, policy, and advocacy in refugee law, migration, and human rights. She has held roles at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. She holds a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne, specialising in human rights and public international law.

Guan is a UI/UX designer passionate about building user-friendly mobile and web apps tailored to audience needs. He graduated from UC Davis with a 3.95 GPA in design and discovered his path through a college UX program that connected him with inspiring mentors. Now, he looks forward to mentoring the next generation of designers.

Parag is a Software Developer and Yale-NUS graduate with experience in front-end applications across e-commerce, gaming, and fintech. Founder of YNC_Hacks, he is passionate about teaching students to code. At Crimson Education, he has taught Python, C, data science, AI, web development, and Unity game design.

Govind Prabhu is a Senior Software ML Engineer at Microsoft with over 10 years of industry experience. For the past 5 years, he has specialized in AI and ML, focusing on model training and inferencing.

Mansi is a researcher at Microsoft on the PROSE team. A graduate of IIT Kharagpur with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (specializing in AI), she has worked on multiple research projects and published papers at top AI conferences including AAAI, EMNLP, and ACL.

Sahib Singh is an accomplished ML Engineer with a Master’s degree in Information Systems (Machine Learning Track) from Carnegie Mellon University. With over 7 years of experience, he focuses on building scalable AI software, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs). He has held key roles at Ford Motor Company, Google, and Niki.ai.

Rahul is a Deep Learning Engineer at Canva who builds novel algorithms for image generation and editing. His focus lies on large language models, diffusion models, and other generative AI techniques. Before Canva, Rahul was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence (IARAI) in Vienna.

Ian is a Software Engineer based in Auckland, New Zealand. He works at Amazon Web Services, building large-scale data systems for the energy sector. With over 7 years of experience, he has held engineering roles at Lightspeed Commerce and Verizon Connect, and works primarily with Java, Kotlin, Python, and TypeScript.