About Us

Founder and President

Angelina Huang is a highly accomplished high school student, athlete, and leader with a stellar academic profile, extensive extracurricular involvement, and numerous awards and honors. With a 4.95 GPA, Angelina ranks first in her class of 690 students at Ed W. Clark High School.

Outside of the classroom, Angelina is a nationally top-ranked junior golfer and a passionate advocate for women in STEM. She founded the Nevada Chapter of Women in STEM and has been its president and ambassador since 2022, empowering and encouraging young girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Angelina is also the President of NV Girls in STEM to empower and encourage young girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Additionally, Angelina and her younger sister, Cameron Huang, founded Dentistry for Kidz, a nonprofit organization and podcast dedicated to educating young kids about oral health and raising awareness about the importance of oral health, good diet, and oral disease from a young age.

Angelina is also an accomplished author, having published the book “I Want to Play College Golf” on Amazon in 2021. The book was based on interviews with over 15 golf coaches and experts and raised over $17,000 through book sales, which Angelina donated back to various community charities. She has also conducted research on the effects of EEG and brainwave signals on golf putting performance and volunteered with the American Heart Association and Cancer Awareness Marathon.

In addition to her academic and extracurricular achievements, Angelina has received numerous awards and honors, including the Princeton Book Award, London Book Festival Winner, Los Angeles Book Festival, and Beach Book Festival Honorable Mentions in 2023. She has also been recognized as a National AP Scholar with Distinction, the Gold Medal of the 2022 President Volunteer Service Award, and the 2022 Youth Community Service Award by the Global Federation of Chinese Business Women.

Angelina founded Neuroscience for Athletes, an organization that bridges neuroscience, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, psychology, and statistics to assist athletes in achieving their peak performance.

Advisory Board Chair

Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Director of Learning & Performance

Mark Guadagnoli is a professor of neuroscience and neurology for the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. He will develop and execute the school’s “Intersession” program, which provides medical students with resources for effective learning and performance strategies, communication and life skills, and specialized medical curricula. All of which are woven into the culture of medical school from its students to faculty to administration.

His primary line of research is related to the Challenge Point Framework, which has been used to optimize learning and performance for athletes, corporate executives, medical professionals, students and others who compete in high-performance situations. His model of learning shows appropriate short-term challenges can result in long-term and stress resistant learning.

Dr. Mark Guadagnoli has worked in industry and academia for over two decades. He has taught/lectured at Harvard University, MIT, UCLA, UNLV, and USC, and has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, GolfDigest, and appeared on the History Channel and CBS Sports. Academic: He received BS and MS degrees at Texas A&M University and PhD at Auburn University (Human Performance: Cognitive Psychology). He specializes in optimizing performance, communication, leadership, and learning and received numerous awards for this work (multiple times Student of the Year, Teacher of the Year, Faculty of the Year, and Researcher of the Year). He published more than 100 articles and abstracts and is the author of two books (Human Learning; Biology, Brain, and Neuroscience, and Practice to Learn, Play to Win). Corporate: Primary corporate work includes executive advising/coaching, core and culture development, and feedback and assessment systems. He has worked with companies such as Zappos and Grammarly, where he developed their corporate university, developed and worked on performance optimizations with their executive team. Dr. Guadagnoli has also worked with corporate optimization and executive development with companies such as DaVita Healthcare Partners, Gemvara, Naturebox, Walk & Co. (P&G), and Rev.com, as well as consulting with Bose, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Google, Sony, and Panasonic. Performance: Dr. Guadagnoli’s research demonstrates that short-term challenges result in long-term and stress-resistant learning. He has been invited to present this work around the world including such countries as Canada, China, France, Germany, and Scotland. Dr. Guadagnoli has also worked in performance optimization with athletes in several sports, including the USA Olympic Elite Track and Field Coaches and PGA, and LPGA.

Specialties: Performance Optimization, Communication, and Leadership

Learning and enhancement of physical and mental performance for athletes and corporate executives

To get a copy of Dr. Guadagnoli’s book, “Practice to Learn, Play to Win” here:

Founder and President

Cameron Huang is a rising star in both academics and athletics. She is a junior at Ed W. Clark High School in Las Vegas and is part of The Academy of Mathematics, Science, and Applied Technology (A.M.S.A.T). With a weighted GPA of 4.455, she ranks in the top 3% of her class out of 776 students.

Cameron is also an accomplished athlete with numerous awards and honors. She is a nationally top-ranked junior golfer, with over one hundred wins and top-ten finishes in state, regional, and national tournaments. Cameron has been part of the Clark High School Women’s Golf Team since 2021, and she has also received recognition as a 2nd Team All-Southern Nevada and 2nd Team All-Divisions All-Las Vegas golfer.

Cameron’s passion for helping others is evident in her extracurricular activities. Cameron founded Dentistry for Kidz, a nonprofit organization and podcast dedicated to educating young kids about oral health and raising awareness about the importance of oral health, good diet, and oral disease from a young age. She is also the co-founder, president, and ambassador of Women in STEM, a non-profit organization that empowers and encourages high school girls to immerse themselves in STEM fields. Cameron is also theVice President of NV Girls in STEM, to empower and inspireyoung girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Cameron’s achievements extend beyond the classroom and the golf course. She is an Amazon-published author of “I Want to Play College Golf,” which has raised over $17,000 through book sales, with 100% of the proceeds going to various community charities. This book won the 2023 London Book Festival Award and the Honorable Mentions of the 2023 Los Angeles Book Festival Award and Beach Book Festival Award. In addition, she is a recipient of the President Volunteer Service Award-Gold Medal and the Youth Community Service Award by the Global Federation of Chinese Business Women (GFCBW). She also completed 12-week coaching sessions with the Certified High-Performance Coaching Institute for leadership, time management, and persuasive skills to be a high-performance leader.

Cameron and her older sister, Angelina Huang, founded Neuroscience for Athletes, an organization that uses neuroscience, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, psychology, and statistics to help athletes achieve peak performance.

Vice President

Dakota Tallent is a nationally ranked Junior golfer who plans to further her golfing career at the collegiate level. Academically Dakota has a 3.6 GPA and is a part of the National Junior Honor Society. She volunteers at her high school for tutoring and for the US Kids Golf Las Vegas Local Tour. Dakota wants to pursue a career in forensic science. Outside of playing golf and keeping up with her studies, she enjoys getting her nails done and hanging out with friends.

VP Finance

Sanjeev Chundu is a highly gifted student and athlete that goes to Ed W Clark High School. In academics, his talents will be going into the field of quantitative finance with a 4.95 GPA, with his athletic ability being directed towards tennis.

In school, he participates on his Varsity Quiz and Science Bowl team, helps coordinate new clubs like Indian Culture Club and Cricket Club, and tutors at his Mu Alpha Theta chapter. He also excelled playing for his tennis team in 10th grade, winning the 5A state title with ease and earning 1st Team All-Southern Nevada tennis player. For this breakthrough performance, he was selected as a finalist for the Las Vegas Sun Standout Awards, which recognizes the highest caliber of all high school athletes in the Las Vegas Valley.

Outside of school, he gets involved with this community through his local Boys and Girls Club chapter. He often volunteers and tutors there, teaching kids important skills such as problem-solving and compromise with different team-building games. He also spends time at his local high school helping younger kids at tennis clinics, sharing his insight into the game of tennis, and often setting parents up with a plan of how to approach the different levels of competition as their child grows in Vegas. He is currently a blue-chip tennis recruit heading for the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and will further develop his athletic and academic ability in the years to come.

Secretary

Alliah Jordan is a nationally ranked Junior golfer who plans to further her golfing career at the collegiate level. Academically Alliah has a 3.5 GPA. Alliah would like to pursue a career in medicine as an Anesthesiologist. Outside of playing golf and keeping up with her schoolwork, she enjoys hanging out with friends and going bowling with her family, and is joining the bowling team at Clark High School.