Swapneel Mehta
@swapneel_mehta
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Run a tech nonprofit rebuilding digital trust @simpplresearch Postdoc, Digital Platforms @BUQuestrom x @mit_ide. Prev. @NYUDataScience @CSMaP_NYU @X @CERN
Cambridge, MA
Joined December 2014
New year, new updates to https://t.co/uPMvql0UUD with all of the progress (and working papers) on #onlinesafety, #digitalplatforms, and #misinformation listed under projects. Feel free to write in if you're interested in working on these topics!
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I enjoyed working with Swapneel at NYU. He is very driven and ambitious, and his heart is in a good place.
I'm on the job market for academic and industry positions, and would appreciate a repost. My research spans information systems, data science, and human-AI interaction, exploring how platforms can govern AI-mediated information exchange https://t.co/uPMvql0n55 Details in 🧵👇
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I'm on the job market for academic and industry positions, and would appreciate a repost. My research spans information systems, data science, and human-AI interaction, exploring how platforms can govern AI-mediated information exchange https://t.co/uPMvql0n55 Details in 🧵👇
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The difference between LinkedIn and X is palpable.
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I'm on the job market for tenure-track academic and industry positions, and would appreciate a repost. My research spans information systems, data science, and human-AI interaction, exploring how...
I'm on the job market for academic and industry positions, and would appreciate a repost. My research spans information systems, data science, and human-AI interaction, exploring how platforms can govern AI-mediated information exchange https://t.co/uPMvql0n55 Details in 🧵👇
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You can read more about my work, CV, and publications at https://t.co/uPMvql0n55 Feel free to drop me an email at firstname at bu dot edu to chat!
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I have contributed to various institutional efforts at NYU, BU, and MIT, mentoring capstone projects and creating academic and research programs for students.
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Teaching and Mentorship: I have created Google and Mozilla award-winning educational programs, training several hundred students over the last 8 years, with five mentees now pursuing their CS Ph.Ds in the U.S. and tens of others at big tech companies and in grad school
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Learning from big tech, I developed public-facing tools to audit information networks using deep research agents, creating Arbiter by SimPPL, a platform to study digital publics at a global scale being presented in several countries ( https://t.co/6xaDNbB1sq)
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All rights reserved. SimPPL, 2025 Arbiter is a collaborative research platform that surfaces civic discourse across the social internet for journalists, technologists, public benefit orgs., and...
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Research Infrastructure: I led significant technical research projects, creating a patented recommender system at Adobe, civic integrity classifiers at X, and collaborations to audit algorithmic information manipulation with Oxford and Meta.
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developing research infrastructure and field experiments resulting in grants and awards of $2.5 million with our partners. I was recently awarded two grants with collaborators at INSEAD and Harvard, spanning the next 1-4 years to support our research.
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Research Applications: I founded and co-lead a nonprofit research lab, SimPPL, rebuilding trust on the social internet, developing projects in several countries focused on AI and information integrity. We work with international newsrooms, think tanks, and UN agencies, ...
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I present at ICIS, WISE, ACR, SCP, ICWSM, AAAI, ICML, NeurIPS, and Stanford's TSRC. My work has also been featured by @Google, @dw_akademie, @UNDP to heads of state and global development agencies and resulted in investigations and threat actor takedowns by major social platforms
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Research Outcomes: Across my studies, I use causal designs and field experiments to evaluate interventions that make digital information environments more transparent and trustworthy.
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I'm on the job market for academic and industry positions, and would appreciate a repost. My research spans information systems, data science, and human-AI interaction, exploring how platforms can govern AI-mediated information exchange https://t.co/uPMvql0n55 Details in 🧵👇
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could have sworn there was an r/designhorror but i guess r/crappydesign will have to suffice.
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one for r/designhorror yes of course we should make all the MFA options look the exact same and not show a timestamp so the user has no clue which authenticator to delete when they try to add a new one.
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“Forward deployed engineer” is gonna take on a whole new meaning soon
Our TPUs are headed to space! Inspired by our history of moonshots, from quantum computing to autonomous driving, Project Suncatcher is exploring how we could one day build scalable ML compute systems in space, harnessing more of the sun’s power (which emits more power than 100
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The @AllTechIsHuman Summit was truly special 🌍✨ Incredible learning from leaders like @TechEthicist & @SamGregory , and great vibes with @swapneel_mehta , @MDSShiva , & @LeahFerentinos 🙌 Excited to turn our conversations into impactful collaborations 🤝 at @contrails_ai
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Was super cool dropping in on some talks, talking trust, ZK, interop, attention economy. I especially liked @swapneel_mehta's talk on digital trust - I think sources of truth and propaganda are an ever-interesting and relevant topic
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I was impacted by Meta layoffs today. As a Research Scientist working on LLM posttraining (reward models, DPO/GRPO) & automated evaluation pipelines, I’ve focused on understanding why/wehere models fail & how to make them better. I’m looking for opportunities; please reach out!
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