Teaching Fellow 2020
Academic Job Search Seminar
Neil Gaikwad is a doctoral scholar at the MIT Media Lab, specializing in human-centered machine learning and public policy for sustainability. He designs and develops socially-aware artificial intelligence systems for sustainable development, with a focus on increasing equity in institutional policymaking and spatial planning, analyzing socio-economic processes and large-scale data emerging from environmental remote sensing satellites.
Neil is one of the founders and chairs of the Humanitarian Mapping initiative and co-organizer of the Computational Sustainability Open Graduate Seminars. His honors include the Facebook Research Fellowship, the MIT Graduate Teaching award, and the Karl Taylor Compton Prize, MIT’s highest student award.
Neil was the Teaching Fellow for the Fall 2020 class 6.S899 Academic Job Search Seminar which guides EECS PhD students and postdocs on the job market through the faculty application process.