Hi there, I'm a postdoc at Boston University and MIT researching economic welfare in two-sided markets at the Platform Governance Lab. My research focus is to understand the social, technological, and economic drivers of digital trust. I am a co-founder of SimPPL where we build responsible computing systems in 6 countries with 20+ partners with support from Google and Mozilla, and Sakhi where we are piloting our digital health literacy platform for maternal care in rural India and Bangladesh incubated at MIT and UNICEF. I got my Ph.D. at NYU Data Science and CSMAP where I researched methods to limit misleading information online.
In the past I worked on productionizing machine learning for particle physics, prototyping and productionizing a graph-based trending hashtag recommendation for videos, and graph-based deep learning in physics! I've also worked on ML in cybersecurity, chatbots, and open-source client APIs for IoT ML pipelines. I'm an engineer at heart and a researcher by profession so I enjoy building scalable systems to tackle hard problems!
I've led and advised the NYU AI School since 2020, conceptualized and built a Google AI-backed ML course for undergrads. I (amateur-ishly) hosted an advanced statistics reading group following Cosma Shalizi's wonderful textbook on the weekends and continue to mentor students doing impactful research. I was involved as a technical mentor for the Grand Challenge at CERN and the Stanford Scholar Initiative but most notably I co-founded and continue to lead a fast-growing FOSS-development + mentorship program for undergrads called Unicode which continues to help its undergrad mentees land offers from FAANG companies and Ivy League universities!
I managed to land a couple of nice internships (although it's super-sad that I couldn't do them all) and wrote a guide for students at the undergraduate and graduate level. I'm also working on a book about engineering education in India at the undergraduate level, hopefully coming out in 2022 2025!
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