Swapneel Mehta

Postdoctoral Associate
Boston University and MIT

United States of America
I am a postdoctoral associate at Boston University, staff at MIT, and run a nonprofit advancing digital trust, called SimPPL. I co-founded a startup incubated at MIT and UNICEF, focused on digital health literacy in India. I have been an Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leader, Google Research Innovator, and a Belfer Fellow, conducting research into platform governance and deploying real-world interventions to limit the effects of online misinformation. Since 2017, I have trained students from the global majority to equip them to lead the Google and Mozilla award-winning projects I am now engaged in, with 20+ nonprofits and local newsrooms in India, Bangladesh, Mongolia, the US, UK, and Germany. I have worked at Twitter, Slack, Adobe, Oxford, Fortune 50 companies, startups, and CERN in various machine learning and data science roles.

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Feb

PS 2.3
Our Tech Future and Implications for Society: Promise or Peril?

10.30 - 12.30 (BKK)