Dhaval Adjodah

Dhaval Adjodah is a Fellow at Schmidt Futures focusing on artificial intelligence and social media research and policy. He shares responsibility in advancing Schmidt Futures’ Scientific Knowledge portfolio by identifying and supporting ideas, research areas, people, and technologies that are underfunded but show tremendous potential for high-leverage and scalable positive change.

Previously, he was a research scientist at the MIT Quest for Intelligence working to push the limits of modern machine learning while maximizing its social good. His areas of expertise are computational social science and reinforcement learning. He also has software and data engineering experience building large data-intensive pipelines such as the World Bank’s monitoring system to track unemployment as part of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. He was a member of the Harvard Berkman Assembly on Ethics and Governance in Artificial Intelligence. Earlier, he worked as a data scientist in banking and insurance, consulted with the US Army and Veterans Health Administration on improving the mental health care delivery pipeline for PTSD therapy, and founded startup incubators in Sri Lanka and Mauritius.

From MIT, he holds a PhD in computational social science and reinforcement learning, a masters in technology policy from the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, and a bachelors in physics focused on PDE modeling.