Full Name
Swapneel Mehta
Job Title
Ph.D. Candidate
Company
New York University
Speaker Bio
Swapneel is a Data Science Ph.D. candidate at NYU and Founder at SimPPL (https://simppl.org). His research at NYU's CSMAP deals with methods to limit online disinformation on social networks using techniques from machine learning and causal inference. He has interned at Slack, Twitter Civic Integrity, Adobe Research, conducted visiting research at Oxford, and worked on machine learning for particle physics at CERN. His team helps create transparency tools to detect mis and disinformation on the social internet (https://parrot.report).
Speaking At
Operationalizing Community Participation in Trust and Safety
Safety & Community Lightning Talks | Mobilizing Student Communities in the Global South to Build Civic Integrity Tools for Journalists
Safety & Community Lightning Talks | Mobilizing Student Communities in the Global South to Build Civic Integrity Tools for Journalists
X (formerly Twitter) Handle
@swapneel_mehta
