Summary
Swapneel 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.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
ICSE, ICSE at Arya Vidya Mandir, Juhu
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS at NYU Center for Data Science
ICSE, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, ICSE, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at Chatrabhuj Narsee Memorial School
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at Mumbai University Mumbai
HSC Examinations, HSC Examinations at IITians PACE Junior Science College