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| Mar 30, 2026 | Invited closing talk on going from AI Projects to AI Products in Kenya (virtual) for the DW AI in the Newsroom Fellowship. [slides] |
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| Mar 27, 2026 | Presented research areas and major project topics at DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering’s Tech Reboot session. [slides] |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Talk from the 9th Annual Psychology of Technology Conference (Nov 2025) is now available online — presenting our collaborative AI-assisted mobile health literacy intervention connecting frontline health workers in India and Bangladesh. |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Invited talk at NYU CSMAP presenting the Arbiter platform for tracing digital discourse across social media platforms. [slides] [post] |
| Mar 18, 2026 | Invited expert talk at ITM University Raipur on “Exploring the Future of AI and Online Safety.” |
| Mar 5, 2026 | SimPPL selected into the Fast Forward 2026 Tech Nonprofit Accelerator in San Francisco, joining a cohort of leading tech nonprofits from hundreds of global applicants. |
| Feb 22, 2026 | Himanshu Beniwal presented SimPPL’s Arbiter platform at the India AI Impact Summit, demonstrating AI for social intelligence and transparent trust & safety investigations. |
| Feb 10, 2026 | Presented Arbiter at the University of Mannheim and collaborated with DW Akademie on digital media consumption research during a week-long visit to Germany. [recap] |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Featured speaker alongside OpenAI and Google leaders at the DW Summit on “Breaking the News” in Berlin, presenting SimPPL’s work on digital trace data and information integrity. |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Selected for NEXT Milan Business Leaders Award by ISPI. |
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| Dec 1, 2025 | Selected for ITS Rio Global Policy Fellowship (Brazil). |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Launched a Mozilla-funded Responsible AI Product Development Program to scale AI ventures. |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Invited talk to Google’s Monetized Product Policy Team. |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Cofounder Smriti Bhaya finalist at Commonwealth Youth Awards for Sakhi. |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Invited talk at Misinfocon India. |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Finalist for the OSV Fellowship, 2025. |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Invited talk at AMA Marketing and Public Policy Conference. |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Invited talk at Splice Beta 2025 on monetization models for news (thanks to DW Akademie!). |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Invited panelist for panel at NYU CDS titled “What the heck does a Data Scientist Do?”. |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Invited talk for Arbiter at WikiCon North America in NYC. |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Invited talk to the JournalismAI community on Arbiter. |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Invited lightning talk at Day Zero event by DW Akademie in Chiang Mai, Thailand. |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Invited talk for Arbiter to journalists in the Philippines. |
| Nov 15, 2025 | Presenting Sakhi at Psych of Tech Conference in DC. |
| Oct 12, 2025 | Trainer for Kenyan Journalists to use LLMs, part of DW Akademie’s AI in the Newsroom Fellowship. |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Joined my friends at the MAD Warfare Podcast for a discussion on how to “Hack the Algorithm” and bend recommender systems to your will. |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Presenting Sakhi at MIT Decentralized AI Summit (April 14-16). |
| Jan 27, 2025 | Invited panelist on “Our Tech Future: Promise and Perils” at Prince Mahidol Awards Conference 2025. |
| Dec 16, 2024 | Selected for Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders Program in Morocco. |
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| Dec 1, 2024 | Featured on DW Akademie’s Toolkit. |
| Dec 1, 2024 | Invited Panel on AI Auditing by Dr. Rumman Chowdhury. |
| Dec 1, 2024 | Finalist for BU Postdocs Lightning Talk Competition. |
| Dec 1, 2024 | Nominated for BU’s Inaugural Best Postdoc Award. |
| Dec 1, 2024 | Short Oral at WISE 2024 on economic welfare in reputation-based marketplaces. |
| Dec 1, 2024 | Finalist, Schmidt Futures Intl. Strategy Forum. |
| Dec 1, 2024 | Talk at MarkTech Conference at Columbia Business School. |
| Dec 1, 2024 | Talk at Yale AI, ML, Business Analytics Conference on “Market Interventions for Safer Agentic AI”. |
| Jul 17, 2024 | Oral Talk at IC2S2 on governance in online marketplaces. |
| Jul 17, 2024 | Lightning Talk and 2 Posters at Stanford T&S Research Conference. |
| Jun 9, 2024 | Paper on the “History of Transparency Regulations” accepted at Dg.O in Taiwan. |
| Jun 1, 2024 | Invited Panelist at TrustCon 2024 on GenAI and Election Threats. |
| Jun 1, 2024 | Selected for MIT’s Delta V Accelerator Program for Sakhi. |
| May 3, 2024 | Invited talk at UNESCO World Press Freedom Day event in Chile. |
| May 1, 2024 | Sakhi featured on Rest of World. |
| Apr 1, 2024 | Won 2nd place at MIT’s PKG IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge. |
| Mar 6, 2024 | Invited Panelist at Finnish Embassy in NYC on Strengthening the Information Ecosystem. |
| Dec 1, 2023 | Hosted talks and workshops for Deutsche Welle Akademie staff and partners (read more). |
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| Dec 1, 2023 | Received WikiCred (Wikimedia) funding for Parrot Report (featured blog post). |
| Dec 1, 2023 | Received Google Research Innovator Award. |
| Dec 1, 2023 | Accepted into the Integrity Institute. |
| Dec 1, 2023 | Won the AI2Amplify Fellowship and Hackathon. |
| Dec 1, 2023 | Mentioned on the Google Cloud blog. |
| Dec 1, 2023 | Co-authored Integrity Institute’s Blog post on GenAI, Transparency Best Practices Deck, and Response to Oversight Board. |
| Dec 1, 2023 | Selected as Responsible Tech Affiliate with All Tech is Human. |
| Dec 1, 2023 | Won the Belfer Fellowship for research into networked hate and harassment. |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Presented work on Twitter interventions at Stanford Trust and Safety Research Conference. |
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| Dec 1, 2022 | Invited to present research at MIT Media Lab, Misinfo. Village @ DEFCON 2022, Truth and Trust Online, Graphika. |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Accepted position on Board of Studies at D.J. Sanghvi College of Engineering. |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Co-organized NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Broadening Research Collaborations in ML. |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Training undergrads in social network analysis via Unicode Research Seminars. |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Workshop on AI for Agent-based Models accepted at ICLR 2023. |
| Jul 1, 2022 | Paper with Oxford and CSMAP accepted for Oral at AI for Agent-based Models Workshop at ICML 2022. |
| Jun 1, 2022 | Interned at Twitter’s Civic Integrity team. |
| Dec 1, 2021 | Trending Hashtag Recommendation for Videos with Adobe Research accepted at ISM 2021. |
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| Dec 1, 2021 | COVID-19 Policy Interventions paper accepted at PROBPROG 2021, MIT. |
| Dec 1, 2021 | Early SimPPL work presented to Twitter’s Cortex Org and Facebook’s Probability Org. |
| Dec 1, 2021 | SimPPL selected for NYC Media Lab’s AI and Local News Challenge. |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Offer to be Data Scientist Intern with Microsoft’s Azure ML Team. |
| Jun 1, 2021 |
I received a generous grant from Google Research India to teach a (independent) 10-week Unicode ML Summer Course in Summer 2021 to students from Tier II and Tier III universities in India. Much obliged to my TAs from Unicode Research for their hard work and commitment!
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| Dec 1, 2020 | Published articles in Open Source for You (OSFY) Magazine. |
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| Jun 1, 2020 | Data Science Research Intern at Adobe Research (May - Dec 2020). |
| Dec 1, 2019 | Launched Unicode Research. |
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| Dec 1, 2019 | Received IRIS-HEP Fellowship, 2019. |