Neil KR Sehgal

About

Hi! I'm currently a first year PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania and am advised by Lyle Ungar and Sharath Chandra Guntuku. I am primarily interested in using computational and causal inference techniques to better understand issues of bias and health equity. More than anything, I'm excited by research that can help inform public policy. My work has appeared in The New York Times, CNN, and The Washington Post, and has been cited by the Ohio governor, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren.

You can reach me at: nsehgal at seas.upenn.edu

CV

• Curriculum Vitae (updated Fall 2023)

Previously, I obtained a Master's of Engineering in Computational Science & Engineering at Harvard University. I also worked part time on the HealthMap Computational Epidemiology team at Boston Children's Hospital and was advised by John Brownstein and Benjamin Rader. Before that, I recieved an AB magna cum laude in computer science at Brown University, and spent summers at Reddit, Microsoft, and Case Western's Center of Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics.

Research

Peer Reviewed Publications

• The Online Language of Work-Personal Conflict (Scientific Reports, November 2023)

  Gloria Liou, Juhi Mittal, Neil KR Sehgal, Louis Tay, Lyle Ungar, Sharath Chandra Guntuku

• Dobbs’ Impact on Military Abortion Access and Estimation of Associated Travel Reimbursement Costs (JAMA, November 2023)

  Benjamin Rader, Yulin Hswen, Neil KR Sehgal, John Brownstein

• Spatial Access to Cooling Centers in the City of Boston (The Journal of Climate Change and Health, May 2023)

  Neil KR Sehgal and Ashwini Sehgal

• Parental compliance and reasons for COVID-19 Vaccination among American children (PLOS Digital Health, April 2023)

  Neil KR Sehgal, Benjamin Rader, Christina Astley, John Brownstein

• US COVID-19 Clinical Trial Leadership Gender Disparities (Lancet Digital Health, March 2023)

  Neil KR Sehgal, John Brownstein, Maimuna Majumder, Gaurav Tuli

• Estimated Travel Time and Spatial Access to Abortion Facilities in the US Before and After the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Decision (JAMA, 2022)

  Benjamin Rader, Ushma Upadhyay, Neil KR Sehgal, Ben Reis, John Brownstein, Yulin Hswen

• Impact of Vax-a-Million lottery on COVID-19 vaccination rates in Ohio (The American Journal of Medicine, 2021)

  Neil KR Sehgal

• Radiomic characterization of perirectal fat on MRI enables accurate assessment of tumor regression and lymph node metastasis in rectal cancers after chemoradiation (SPIE Medical Imaging, 2019)

  Michael C. Yim, Zhouping Wei, Jacob Antunes, Neil KR Sehgal, Kaustav Bera, Justin T. Brady, Kenneth Friedman, Joseph Willis, Andrei Purysko, Raj Paspulati, Anant Madabhushi, and Satish E. Viswanath

• A Standardized Donor Designation Ratio to Assess the Performance of Driver’s License Agencies (Transplantation Proceedings, 2017)

  Neil KR Sehgal, Catherine Sullivan, Maria Figueroa, Julie Pencak, Douglas Einstadter, and J. Daryl Thornton

• Stability of Organ Donor Designations on Driver’s Licenses (Transplantation Proceedings, 2016)

  Neil KR Sehgal, Catherine Sullivan, Maria Figueroa, Julie Pencak, and J. Daryl Thornton

• Is Signature Size Associated With Organ Donor Designation on Driver’s Licenses? (Transplantation Proceedings, 2016)

  Neil KR Sehgal, Catherine Sullivan, Ciaran Scallan, Maria Figueroa, Julie Pencak, Karen Scott, and J. Daryl Thornton

• The Relationship Between Verified Organ Donor Designation and Patient Demographic and Medical Characteristics (American Journal of Transplantation, 2016)

  Neil KR Sehgal, Ciaran Scallan, Catherine Sullivan, Maria Cedeño, Julie Pencak, Jazmine Kirkland, Karen Scott, and J. Daryl Thornton

Submitted for Publication

• Race Discrimination in Facebook Internet Advertising: Evidence From a Field Experiment

  Neil KR Sehgal and Dan Svirsky

• Follow for Follow: Racial Discrimination in the Instagram Gig Economy

  Neil KR Sehgal and Dan Svirsky

• Adherence to Non-pharmaceutical Interventions Following COVID-19 Vaccination: A Federated Cohort Study

  Benjamin Rader, Neil KR Sehgal, Julie Michelman, Stefan Mellem, Marinanicole Schultheiss, Tom Hoddes, Jamie MacFarlane, Geoff Clark, Shawn O'Banion, Paul Eastham, Gaurav Tuli, James Taylor, John Brownstein

• Beyond Bedside Manner: Examining the Role of Physician Characteristics in Online Verified Primary Care Physician Reviews

  Neil KR Sehgal, Benjamin Rader, John Brownstein

• The Impact of Abortion Bans on Short-term Housing Needs

  Neil KR Sehgal, Yulin Hswen, Jonathan Cantor, Ushma Upadhyay, Ben Y. Reis, Christopher Remmel, John S. Brownstein, Benjamin Rader

Conferences

• Race Discrimination in Facebook Internet Advertising: Evidence From a Field Experiment (American Economic Association Annual Conference 2023, Session on Racial Discrimination)

  Neil KR Sehgal and Dan Svirsky

• Reconsidering the Algorithmic Fairness of Race Adjustment in Pulmonary Function Equations (Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good at AAAI2023)

  Usha Bhalla, Isha Puri, Neil KR Sehgal*
  *All Authors Contributed Equally

News/Policy Coverage

• Vaccine Lottery Research: Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cincinatti Enquirer, Youngstown Vindicator, Ohio Capital Journal, Ohio Governor News Release, Ohio Governor Press Conference, Sky News
• Abortion Access Research: Kamala Harris Twitter, Elizabeth Warren letter to POTUS, NAACP amicus brief, New York State amicus brief, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, ABC, NBC, FiveThirtyEight, Forbes, People Magazine
• Military Abortion Travel Policy Research: ABC, Houston Chronicle, The Birmingham News/Huntsville Times, KFF Health News, Military.com, Stars and Stripes