Swapneel Mehta
Co-Founder at NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSwapneel Mehta is a researcher-engineer and co-founder with a decade of experience building agentic, scalable systems that trace and mitigate digital harms across major social platforms. He leads SimPPL, an award-winning nonprofit whose Arbiter platform supports journalists in eight countries and has been recognized by UNESCO, Google, Wikimedia and others, and he has incubated AI-driven health literacy ventures at MIT. His work bridges ML, causality, and multiagent simulation—spanning policy-facing research at NYU’s CSMAP, productized integrity tools used in the field, and field experiments improving reproductive health outcomes across 400+ families. A Ph.D. from NYU’s Center for Data Science, Swapneel pairs rigorous causal inference with production engineering, having boosted misinformation detection at Twitter and deployed human-in-the-loop RAG systems for health. He is active in governance and community roles—from board membership at Integrity Institute to mentoring capstones at MIT—bringing a rare combination of academic depth, product chops, and on-the-ground impact.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
ICSE, ICSE at Arya Vidya Mandir, JuhuDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Data Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Data Science at NYU Center for Data ScienceICSE, Primary Certificate Education, ICSE, Primary Certificate Education at Chatrabhuj Narsee Memorial SchoolBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at Mumbai University MumbaiHSC Examinations, HSC Examinations at IITians PACE Junior Science College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (124)
python10
discounts10
database9
nlp9
energy9
hbase9
particle9
pytorch9
geometry9
java9
mathematics9
natural-language-processing9
physics9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
djunicode/djunicode.github.io
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
The Unicode Blog
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 months
unicode
SwapneelM/awesome-particle-physics-for-non-physicists
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
A curated list of introductory resources to Particle Physics (Quantum Field Theory, QED, QCD, Standard Model, Colliders) for people without a formal background in Physics
Contributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 months
physicsparticleqcdquantum-computingqed
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