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300+ instructors from prestigious universities and institutions around the world have worked with Scholar Launch. They provide extensive experience in research and teaching over a catalog of disciplines.

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  • Harvard University

  • Columbia University

  • Princeton University

  • Yale University

  • University of Cambridge

  • University of Chicago

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • University of Oxford

  • Duke University University of Pennsylvania Northwestern University California Instutite of Technology Dartmouth College Brown University Cornell University Williams College Amherst College Swarthmore College Rice University Wellesley College University of California, Los Angeles Washington University in St. Louis University of Notre Dame University of California, Berkeley Peking University University of Tokyo McGill University University of Toronto Vassar College

Faculty Advisors (partial)

  • Professor W

    Former Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine

    Research Areas: Public Health, Biology, Medicine, Music Therapy

    Past Student Projects: The Role of Government in Controlling COVID-19; How the Human Nerve System Responds to Musical Sounds; Teenage Pregnancy in Africa

  • Professor M

    Professor, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

    Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Computer Science

    Past Student Projects: Nexus between Covid-19 and Cancer: an Information Retrieval Study; Technical Analysis: Recognizing Candlestick Patterns in Stock Charts; Evaluation of a Multi-model Approach to Chatbots

  • Professor S

    Adjunct Associate Professor, Urban Design, Columbia University

    Research Areas: Urban Design, Architecture

    Past Student Projects: Environmental Protection of Shenzhen Bay; Design a Museum with a Responsive Building Facade; Pittsburgh Climate Change Resilience Planning

  • Professor R

    Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, UCLA

    Research Areas: Health Analytics, AI and Health Informatics, Mathematical Methods, Data Science

    Past Student Projects: Deep Learning Model to Categorize Fatigue / Rested People; Predict Diabetes Using Machine Learning Technique; Analyzing Dataset of Cancerous Gene Sequences and Using Machine Learning to Determine Primary vs Metastasis Cancer

  • Professor R

    Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego

    Research Areas: Neuroscience, Psychology, Biology

    Past Student Projects: Psychology and Cognitive Brain Science; Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Brain; The Biology and Psychology of the LGBTQ Community; Alzheimer's Disease: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategies

  • Professor G

    Professor of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology

    Research Areas: Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics

    Past Student Projects: Guide to Einstein’s Special Relativity; Dynamics of an Inverted Pendulum on a Moving Platform; Oscillations of Bridges Induced by Marching Soldiers; Number Theory and Applications to Cryptography; Deterministic Walks in Random Environments

  • Professor K

    Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University

    Research Areas: History, Anthropology, Sociology

    Past Student Projects: Orientalism in Western Literature: the Biology and Socio-psychology of Coronavirus in Historical Context Epidemics throughout History

  • Professor H

    Lecturer in Management, Yale University;

    Adjunct Professor of Marketing, Columbia University

    Research Areas: Business, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship

    Past Student Projects: Future Marketing Strategies for Coca Cola; Analysis on Nike and Suggestions for its Future Marketing Strategy

  • Professor P

    Associate Researcher, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

    Research Areas: International Relations, History, Religion

    Past Student Projects:

    Mass Repression in the Heart of Brazil: Facing the Brazilian Military Coup in Goiás; Representations of Post-Colonial Brutality; An Unintended Blunder: Re-assessing Kennedy’s Decision to Use Agent Orange in Vietnam

  • Professor G

    Assistant Professor, New York University Stern School of Business

    Research Areas: Entrepreneurship, Business Communications and Strategy, Publicity, Organizational Communication, Marketing

    Past Student Projects: Acquiring Knowledge of the International World of Business; Developing Elements of a Business Plan and Increasing Understanding of International Business, Sports Management,; Entrepreneurship and Crisis Management; Business Plan of an Eco-friendly Company

  • Professor M

    Associate Director of Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences, Brown University

    Research Areas: Geography, Spatial Data Science, and Social Sciences in general

    Past Student Projects: Spatial Disparities in Hospital Access during Covid-19 Pandemic; Data Visualization: Using Data Models and Geographical Information to Design Web-Mapping Projects

  • Professor B

    Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Georgetown University

    Research Areas: Political Economy, Formal Political Theory, Public Finance, Microeconomics, Game Theory

    Past Student Projects: The Economics and Political Constraints of a Green Jobs Guarantee; Pharmaceutical Market Failure, Subsequent Policy, and its Obstacles in China; Economics of Education: Why do People Invest in Education?

Teaching Assistants (partial)

Apart from the renowned faculty advisor, students also have the unique opportunity to work with an outstanding teaching assistant with elite credentials. Over 95% of our teaching assistants have an advanced degree and/or an Ivy League degree. They work with students one-on-one to provide research and writing support throughout the practicum.

  • D.B.

    Ph.D. candidate in Literature, Harvard University

    Past Student Topics:

    • The Birth of the Workhouse: Poverty, Nutrition and Reform;

    • Laura Cereta: Renaissance, Feminism, and Intellects;

    • The 1884 Cholera Outbreak in Naples, Italy: Violence Caused by Miscommunication

  • V.Y.

    Ph.D., Human Development, University of Pennsylvania

    Past Student Topics:

    • Fertility and Women’s Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Teachers’ Mental Health: Research and Policy Proposal

    • Gender Inequality in STEM Education in China

  • Z.S.

    PhD. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Center for Applied Biomechanics, University of Virginia

    Past Student Topics:

    • Applying Machine Learning to Predict COVID-19 Transmission and Mortality on a County-level Basis in the USA

    • Laser Fundamentals, Underlying Physics, Theory and Practice

    • A Comparative Study of Classical, Image Recognition, and Sequence Recognition Neural Networks for Street Safety Audio Classification

  • J.G.

    JD, Fordham School of Law, MA, Computer Science, Columbia University

    Past Student Topics:

    • Predict Diabetes Using Machine Learning Technique

    • The World of Interactive Design

    • Study of Open Cluster of Stars

  • B.H.

    Ph.D., Higher Education, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University

    Past Student Topics:

    • Industrial agriculture and its impact on consumers, farmers, and the environment

    • International and Comparative Trends in Economics

    • Informality in Labor Markets and Poverty Alleviation in Developing Countries