Neil Gaikwad
Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Gaikwad is an assistant professor and founding director of the Society-Centered AI Lab at UNC Chapel Hill, where he builds human-AI collaborative systems that center equity, fairness, and value alignment. With a PhD from MIT and faculty appointments spanning data science, computer science, health informatics, and ethics, he blends rigorous machine learning research with interdisciplinary deployment and policy advice. His work has appeared in top venues (AAAI, CHI, CSCW, PNAS) and attracted mainstream attention in The New York Times, Bloomberg, and WIRED, reflecting both scholarly impact and public relevance. A dedicated mentor and teacher of over 500 students and 80 researchers, he pairs hands-on technical contributions—such as front-end development on the Daemo crowdsourcing platform—with broader lab leadership. Recognized by awards from MIT, Facebook, IBM-UNC, and named a Rising Star by Stanford and UChicago, he navigates the space between academic rigor and real-world social impact.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Society-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Society-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCarnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
English, Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
front-end-development10
angular10
bootstrap9
bootstra9
javascript8
angularjs7
material-design7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
crowdresearch/daemo
Apr 2015 - May 2016
The Daemo crowdsourcing platform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:262 commits, 128 PRs, 255 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Neil primarily focused on front-end development, contributing to the landing page and CSS styling. They recreated the front-end of the demo application, including the creation of landing page functionality and related CSS work, implementing the design for a new theme. Furthermore, the user implemented the registration feature of the application by developing relevant registration page. Their contributions touched upon HTML, CSS, and Angular for UI development.
pythonethereummaterial-designpostgresangular
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