What it's like to work at SimPPL, in their own words.
Long-form essays from SimPPL alumni and NextGenAI project teams. Written by the people who shipped the work, about what it actually took: the projects, the pivots, the things they would do differently. Each story lives here on simppl.org, not on a separate site.
NextGenAI FellowsCrediboost Team
How NOT to Build a Project: Our journey of learning to build a product that people actually care about, pivoting from misinformation detection to fake review analysis.
NextGenAI FellowsSpeakBoost Team
From Idea to Deployment: Our journey with SpeakBoost, transforming an idea into a comprehensive platform for enhancing spoken communication through real-time feedback and personalized learning.
NextGenAI FellowsPhysioPlay Team
From concept to reality: Building PhysioPlay, an AI-powered WhatsApp platform that bridges theory and practical learning in physiotherapy education through interactive patient simulations.
NextGenAI FellowsFairify Team
This isn't a success story. But it is a story of learning how to build an AI auditing product - our journey through research, interviews, and understanding when to pivot.
NextGenAI FellowsEngraph Team
Our experience with SimPPL - A wonderful journey of responsible computing and explainable AI that started with a 6:00 AM Zoom call on a winter morning and evolved into professional growth and collaborative innovation.
NextGenAI FellowsFinsage Team
Our Journey with Finsage - When we first joined the Mozilla Fellowship program under simPPL, mentored by Swapneel Mehta, we had a simple but ambitious goal: to build something meaningful. Little did we realize how deeply the experience would shape not just our product but also our understanding of building products that matter.
CERN Summer StudentUday Sharma
From Delhi to Geneva: My Journey to CERN as a Summer Student selected from 10,000 applicants worldwide.
NYUViral Dalal
My journey with SimPPL transformed me from a student researcher to confident AI engineer, working on cutting-edge LLM systems and internal AI tools that impacted real operations.
University of MarylandPankti Sheta
SimPPL transformed me from a CS student into a confident data scientist, equipping me with real-world skills in social media analysis and AI tools-key to my Master's admission and career path.
Student Assistent, PEASEC TU DarmstadtAditya Surve
From hackathon curiosity to academic research - my journey studying decentralized networks and disinformation patterns.
University of Texas at DallasNahush Patil
From building Sakhi at SimPPL to landing a US internship - how real-world product experience shaped my career in AI/ML.
Google NYCMrunmayi Parker
From SimPPL to Google NYC: My journey from Research Engineer to Technical Program Manager intern.
Columbia UniversityChaitya Shah
Messy Data, Clear Goals: The Story Behind My Columbia Admit - From Actuarial Science to Data Science at an Ivy League.
AI/ML Engineer, ArmakuniArpit Sharma
From B.Tech student to Research Engineer: My transformative journey at SimPPL working on AI-driven social listening, hate speech detection, and misinformation research.