Swapneel Mehta

swapneel@bu.edu
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Bio

Swapneel is a postdoctoral associate at Boston University and MIT conducting behavioral economics research into platform governance and free speech. He founded and co-lead a nonprofit, [SimPPL](https://simppl.org), rebuilding trust on the social internet in 6 countries through responsible computing tools deployed with over 20 newsrooms, CSOs, nonprofits, and the UN. The nonprofit is focused on translating research into practice, spinning out an award-winning, MIT-incubated tech venture delivering maternal health literacy information in rural India called [Sakhi](https://sakhi-health.com).

Swapneel has been a Google Research Innovator, CTS Belfer Fellow, and won several grants from Google, Mozilla, and Wikimedia to support his work. He received his Ph.D. from NYU Data Science, estimating the causal effects of interventions to limit misinformation. In industry, he worked at Twitter, Adobe, Slack, with Meta at Oxford, (now acquired) startups, and CERN on AI products, algorithms, and applications.

He serves as a Community Advisory Board member at the Integrity Institute, Responsible Tech Affiliate at All Tech is Human, and Board of Studies member at D.J. Sanghvi College of Engineering. He has mentored about 8 graduate, 130 undergraduate, and 4 high-school students.