Swapneel Mehta Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Working with Marshall van Alstyne, Nina Mazar, Mayank Varia, Ran Canetti on free speech, social media, and democracy. Building measurement and mitigation techniques for online harms to inform platform governance and policy-making.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Working with David Rand at the Institute for Digital Economy and with Gordon Pennycook at Cornell.

New York, New York, Us

Nonprofit research collective advancing responsible computing and building AI tools for the global majority! Analysing billions of social media posts across multiple social platforms to understand the social and technological drivers of misinformation. Working with newsrooms to deploy AI for understanding audiences, and improving access to reliable information.Partnering with leading newsrooms, national broadcasters, global civic tech orgs., and intergovernmental agencies like the United Nations to deploy our tech to thousands of users.Awarded grant funding from the Center for Tech and Society, Mozilla, Wikimedia, the NYC Media Lab, Google, Amazon, MIT, and others. Invited to lead capstone teams at MIT and NYU.

MIT-incubated tech venture improving women’s health literacy throughAI-informed, personalized behavioral interventions on WhatsApp.• Launched IRB-backed maternal health pilot with 140 families in Jalgaon,India, menstrual health pilot with 200+ families in Dhaka, Bangladesh.• Won USD 62,500 in grants from AWS, MIT IDEAS, Delta-V, UNICEF, UNDP.• Invited to present to World Bank, consult with teams at MIT SEID.

Advisory role on Policy and Research.

New York, Ny, Us

Affiliate with CSMAP.

New York, Ny, Us

Analyzing the causal impact of Twitter’s interventions on tweets spreading political misinformation.Leading the development of SimPPL: Simulating Social Networks with Probabilistic Programs.Modeling policy interventions on spread of infections for COVID-19 as an analogy to misinformation control accepted at PROBPROG 2021, MIT. Finalist at the NYC Media Lab's AI + Local News Challenge (grant recipient).

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Helping organize the syllabus for the students across the Computer Engg., Data Science, and AI branches of the institute.

New York, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Product adoption-focused quantitative research with the Central Data Science team. Improved measurement of product growth from social learning of new product features.

Organizing, speaker management, participant support, community-building, fundraising from top tech and biotech companies (DeepMind, Genentech).

New York City, Us

Participated in mentorship program guided by Ms. Alyssa Zeisler at Dow Jones to develop a product roadmap and customer profiling, resulting in the first iteration of our product deck at SimPPL: https://pitch.com/v/npa-artifact-z3it9c

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Working with Twitter's Civic Integrity team on the early detection of online misinformation on the platform. Improved the model precision for their production misinformation classifier in the civic and public health space.

Oxford, Oxfordshire, Gb

Studying how to mitigate the effects of influence operations amplified by recommender systems in the context of multiagent systems.Collaborating with the Integrity Institute and partners in the industry.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Building graph ML-based recommendation systems for videos. Accepted an extension of my summer internship to productize + publish the work.

New Delhi, Delhi, In

Contributing articles for 'Open Source For You' magazine, focusing on the tech industry.Topics include Ethereum and the blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning, Docker, Linux, enterprise software, Windows tools for developers, Jekyll, getting started with open-source, Puppet, and others.

Meyrin, Genève, Ch

Technical Student working on particle track reconstruction using machine learning and extending the DeepJet deep learning library for multijet classification developed by the the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) Experiment at CERN.

Meyrin, Genève, Ch

Unsupervised Learning for Anomaly Detection: flagging suspicious connections to the database instances within the CERN Network.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Investigated approaches to automate the evaluation of Blender assignments in order to aid MOOCs.Course Moderator for the SKANI101xA MOOC on IITBombayX.Developed Python Scripts and Machine Learning approaches for the same, available on Github.

Boston, Us

Developed proof-of-concept for deception techniques in network security.Leveraged machine learning for automating core workflows and integrating dynamic techniques for their award-winning product, IllusionBlack.

Cupertino, California, Us

Worked on reactive programming, building open-source APIs in Javascript, Python, and Java to enable outflow of signal processing assessments directly to the clients.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked on a project by Microsoft Research, India - developed Analytics Dashboards for the 'Lokacart' Client as well as Administrator Application.Worked on Android-based ICT Solutions at IIT-Bombay, for the agricultural market in the state.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Founded a team of freelance website developers in Mumbai to develop CMS-based websites for clients that need better functionality and faster development along with a product of industrial standards. Worked on websites for over 10 different clients from India, China and Dubai.The websites were built with functionality ranging from online booking systems to educational course selection.Primary responsibility: Web development, and additionally handled PR, Social Media and Development for clientele, working remotely as well as on-site.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering

Hsc Examinations

Icse, Primary Certificate Education

Icse