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Neil Gaikwad

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Neil S. Gaikwad 

Biography  

Snehalkumar `Neil' S. Gaikwad received his PhD in Society-Centered AI from MIT.  After the MIT Media Lab,  he joined as an Assistant Professor in Data Science and Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill, where he also serves on the Faculty Advisory Council of the UNC Parr Center for Ethics and is a Fellow at the MIT Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values. He is an alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science.

Neil's research advances socially responsible design of AI systems and policy through computational approaches that align human values and ethical principles for equitable decision-making in high-stakes settings. This work has been featured in leading AI and HCI conferences as well as The New York Times, Bloomberg, WIRED, and the United Nations. He is an alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. 

Neil has been recognized with the Facebook Research Fellowship, Human Rights & Technology Fellowship, Rising Star recognition from Stanford University and the University of Chicago, and MIT's highest student honor - the Karl Taylor Compton Prize and Graduate Teaching Award. As a dedicated educator and mentor, he has guided over 30 students to publish influential papers, secure competitive fellowships, and shape AI fairness policy, while teaching at Carnegie Mellon, MIT EECS, MIT IDSS, and the MIT Media Lab.

Selected Awards and Honors

Leadership

  • Karl Taylor Compton Prize, 2019, MIT's Highest Student Award

Research and Innovation

  • Facebook Research Fellowship, 2019
  • Rising Star in Stanford Management Science and Engineering, 2024
  • PKG Fellowship for Public Interest Tech and Social Impact, 2024
  • Schmidt Science Fellowship MIT Nomination, 2023
  • Fellow, MIT Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, 2023
  • MIT Social & Ethical Responsibilities of Computing Scholar, 2023
  • Rising Stars in Data Science, UChicago, 2021
  • MIT William Asbjornsen Albert Memorial Science & Engg Fellowship, 2021
  • MIT Human Rights & Technology Fellowship, 2021
  • INK Fellow Emerging Innovator, 2019
  • Best Paper Honorable Mention, UIST 2017

Teaching

  • MIT GSC Graduate Teaching Award, 2018
  • MIT Kaufman Teaching Certificate, 2017
  • Teaching Fellow MIT EECS Comm Lab, 2020

Professional Service

  • EAAMO 2021, Program Committee, Best Reviewers
  • CHI 2020 and CHI 2019 Special Recognition, Outstanding Reviews
  • IJCAI 2018, Distinguished PC

Arts

  • MIT Arts Scholars
  • National Geographic Photo of the Day

Google Scholar Publications 

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Event Events

Neil Gaikwad speaks at University of Chicago, Data Science Institute

Community-based designs of Human-centered AI and Public Policy: Towards Promoting Global Inclusion, Resilience, and SustainabilityThe field…
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Neil Gaikwad recognized by MIT and University of Chicago

Named Human Rights & Technology Fellow by MIT Center for International Studies, and a Rising Star by UChicago Center for Data & Computing.
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Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping and Policymaking, 3rd Workshop at the ACM SIGKDD 2022

#human-AI collaboration #decision-making #Data science #AI #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #HumanitarianCrisis #SDGs #Sustainability
April 25, 2022
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Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping and Policymaking, 1st Worksop at the ACM SIGKDD 2020

Neil Gaikwad from the Space Enabled research group is co-organizing the KDD Workshop on Humanitarian Mapping.
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Neil Gaikwad chosen as a 2019 Facebook Fellow

Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.
Archived
Project Research

A voting-based system for ethical decision making

The problem of ethical decision making presents  a grand challenge for modern AI research. Arguably the main obstacle to automating et…
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Neil Gaikwad has been honored with the 2019 Karl Taylor Compton Prize, MIT's highest student award

The Compton Prizes are the highest awards presented by the Institute to students and student organizations.
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Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping and Policymaking, 2nd Workshop at the ACM SIGKDD 2021

climate change, sustainability, humanitarian actions, global development
April 23, 2021
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Neil Gaikwad chosen for 2019 INK Fellows Program for Emerging Innovators

Neil Gaikwad, a doctoral student at the Space Enabled research group,  has been chosen for the 2019 INK Fellowship Prog…
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2018 GSC Graduate Teaching Award

Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student at the Media Lab, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute Award presented annually to one MI…
Publication People

Boomerang: Rebounding the Consequences of Reputation Feedback on Crowdsourcing Platforms

Gaikwad, S. with Crowd Research Collective Members.
Academic Paper
Publication People

Daemo: A Self-Governed Crowdsourcing Marketplace

Gaikwad, S. with Crowd Research Collective Members.
Academic Paper
Article Research

Beyond Boundaries

The fusion of ecological arts and computations to sense the presence of absence on the planet Earth - by Neil Gaikwad
July 20, 2020