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Ph.D., Data Science

Center for Data Science, New York University

• Google Research Innovator; AI2Amplify Fellow
• Thesis - Towards Informed Interventions to Limit the Effects of Misleading Information on Social Networks
• Advisors - Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler at Center for Social Media and Politics
• Machine Learning, Causal Inference, Social Networks, Probabilistic Programs

B. Eng., Computer Engineering

D.J. Sanghvi College of Engg., University of Mumbai

• Applied Math, Graph Theory, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms

Postdoctoral Associate and Staff

Boston University and MIT

• Belfer Fellowship, Center for Tech and Society and Responsible Tech Affiliate, All Tech is Human
• Researching platform governance, free speech, and democracy jointly at BU (Questrom Business School) and MIT (Sloan, Initiative for Digital Economy).

Founder

SimPPL, New York

• Audit online disinformation, influence operations, and state-backed cyber warfare via parrot.report
• Digital strategy and audience analysis for The Sunday Times (UK), Deutsche Welle, Yale Daily News; GCHQ, USAF.
• Awarded USD 35,000 in grants from AWS, Google, the Wikimedia Fdn., the NYC Media Lab, and JournalismAI.

TSP Researcher

CERN, Geneva

• Built graph neural networks for particle track reconstruction using collision data from the Large Hadron Collider.
• Built, maintained, and deployed the ‘DeepJet’ deep learning package into production across 42 global sites.
• Google Cloud Award and the Oxford MLHEP Award for our work

Graduate Researcher

Center for Social Media and Politics, NYU

• Estimating the causal effects of Reddit’s platform downtime on the spread of low quality news online (ongoing).
• Estimating the causal impact of Twitter’s interventions on Donald Trump’s tweets presented at Stanford T&S Conf.
• Modeling policy interventions for epidemiology models accepted at PROBPROG 2021, MIT.

Ph.D. Product Data Science Intern

Slack (Salesforce) Inc., New York

• Working on Slack's Central DS Team to understand how 'social' learning affects product feature adoption among enterprise Slack users.
• Developing strategies for product growth using tools from machine learning and causal inference.

Ph.D. Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Twitter Inc., New York

• Worked with Civic Integrity and sister teams at Twitter Health, improving the precision of their civic and health misinformation classifier (BigQuery ML) by 30% to be deployed into production to score millions of tweets a week.

Visiting Researcher

University of Oxford, UK

• Simulating the impact of influence operations on ranking and recommender systems on social networks.
• First-author workshop paper presented at the AI4ABM Workshop at ICML 2022; Misinfocon at DEFCON 2022.

Data Science Intern

Adobe Research, California

• Trending Hashtag Recommendation for Videos; web-scraping, weakly-supervised learning, graph neural networks.
• First-author paper accepted IEEE Intl. Symposium on Multimedia 2021; U.S. Patent App P10634-US.

Research Intern, Prof. Sameer Sahasrabudhe

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

• Automated the evaluation for 3D Modeling assignments in Blender; Course Instructor, edX Prize Finalist, 2019.
• Published a first-author short paper at IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2018.

Software Engineering Intern

Smokescreen Technologies (acq. ZScaler), Mumbai

• Combined low-latency network scans, hostname clustering, intelligent decoys, and automated deployment using custom-built modules integrated into the NASSCOM-DSCI award-winning IllusionBlack software, 3rd Gen., 2017.

Software Engineering Intern

Falkonry Software Solutions, Mumbai

• Developed and deployed real-time data streaming and subscription-based alerts in the three client connectors released as open-source codebases in Java, Python and Javascript.

Research Intern, Microsoft Research

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

• Created a Google Analytics Dashboard to track and monitor user interactions on the “Lokacart” app.
• Presented the project to Microsoft Research and a committee of IIT-B faculty (video available).

• Google Research Innovator Award
• WikiCred Grant, Wikimedia Foundation (USD 10,000)
• 2nd place “Spam and Misinformation”, WSDM Smart City Challenge (USD 1000)
• Grant Funding, JournalismAI Team Parrot (USD 2000)

• News Product Alliance Mentorship Program
• Digital Forensics Lab - Digital Sherlocks Program
• Algovera AI Research, Community Grant Rounds 5, 7, 8 (USD 3000)
• Amazon Web Services Research Grant (USD 5000)
• Google Cloud Research Award (USD 1000)
• NYU Tech Ventures Workshop (USD 1000)
• NYC Media Lab AI + Local News Challenge (USD 7500)

• Google AI Research India (INR 85,000)
• IRIS - HEP Fellowship
• UK Research and Innovation Grant, Profs. Philip Torr and Günes Baydin (GBP 23,200)

• 2nd place, Oxford MLHEP Challenge
• Economic Times Campus Stars, India's Top 33 Engineers