Summary
Anmol Panda is a doctoral student at the University of Michigan School of Information researching political communication, election campaigns, and civic discourse on social media, with a complementary focus on ICTD and how platforms shape public conversation. With nine years of research and engineering experience spanning Microsoft Research India, IIT Delhi, and international internships, he blends computational methods with domain expertise in misinformation, extreme speech, and classifier development for diverse political contexts. His work has produced applied systems—such as classifiers for identifying public figures on Indian Twitter—and contributed to systems research on compiler optimizations and networking during earlier roles. Comfortable moving between field-facing political analysis and low-level systems work, he brings a rare mix of social-science rigor and engineering depth to problems of technology and democracy.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Exchange Studies, Information Technology, Exchange Studies, Information Technology at Uppsala University
English, Marathi, Hindi, French