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Swapneel Mehta

AI expert

Swapneel Mehta
Swapneel Mehta portrait

Dr. Swapneel Mehta is co-founder of the tech nonprofit, SimPPL, where he is building the transparency layer for the social internet. Through his tech nonprofit he helps journalists investigate the online accounts shaping public conversations and influencing elections, policy, and healthcare. Their collaborations with reporters in 8 countries have made national news, informing platform enforcement by Meta and X. SimPPL has won awards from MIT, Google, Mozilla, Wikimedia, and is supported by the UNDP. Dr. Mehta pursued AI research at MIT and Boston University, and has shipped machine learning algorithms at X, Adobe, Slack, and CERN.