Swapneel Mehta

Swapneel Mehta is a 4th year Ph.D. student at NYU Data Science and a Graduate Research Associate at NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics where he researches interventions to limit misinformation using tools from causality and probabilistic machine learning. He is also the founder of SimPPL, an organization that helps local news understand online audiences. Swapneel is a Computer Engineer by training and has previously worked on graph neural network-based recommendation systems at Adobe Research and machine learning for particle physics at CERN.