Swapneel Mehta
PhD Alumni
Contact: sm8523@nyu.edu
Bio: Swapneel Mehta was a PhD student at the NYU Center for Data Science working with Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler, and Joshua Tucker at the Center for Social Media and Politics with interests in simulation-based inference and causality. He used probabilistic programming to conduct social network analysis, with a focus on understanding misinformation spread and control in a simulated training environment that he worked to develop. In the past, he has worked with recommender systems at Adobe Research, graph neural networks and particle physics at CERN, and Fortune 500 startups in cybersecurity and IoT. He has also mentored students doing research and software development as part of a student organization he co-founded, called Unicode.