Postdoctoral Research

Advancing Data Justice (2022/2023): Steering research output and partner engagement, of a collaborative partnership between the Turing, GPAI and 12 global research partners.

Ethics of Synthetic Data (2023): Serving in an ongoing ethics research advisory role for project at the Turing (forthcoming report).

Beyond Individual Persuasion (2021/2022): Interdisciplinary mixed-methods research between Anthropology, HCI and Built Environment at UCL. 

Doctoral Research

Doctoral Research Project (2018-2021): Conducted an analysis of India’s emerging gig-work, fintech, and digital identity technologies within the ecosystem of data sharing and AI practices.

Urban Data, Inequality, and Justice – Case Study (2019): Qualitative research, funded as primary researcher by the University of Manchester’s Sustainable Consumption Institute (GBP 2,700).

Between Digital Platforms and the Deep Sea (2019/2020): Primary researcher/CoI on a project funded by Not-Equal (UKRI ~GBP 4,000) studying social justice implications of digital platforms on urban fishing communities using two studies:

• A mixed-method study of the spatiotemporal design of gig-work technologies and algorithmic practices of businesses, aiming to identify power dynamics between workers from the community and platforms.
• A qualitative study of policymaking, programme implementation, and social impact surrounding digital identity use among urban fishers.

Predoctoral and Engineering Research (selected)

ICTs and Hope for Development (2013):  Research project on psycho-social dimensions of hope, studying users’ engagement with information and communication technologies (ICTs).  Developed case studies on the ‘One Laptop per Child’ initiative (Global) and agritech (India) – Paper published in 2016.

Telemedicine Research Consultancy (2009): Conducted primary, mixed-methods research at health camps of Sankara Nethralaya Eye Hospital (India) to investigate telemedicine field-level processes and parameters of healthcare delivery for a cost-benefit evaluation in-line with prevailing Tamil Nadu state health policy. 

Cost-Effective Wireless Sensor Network (2006): Research Assistant on TIFAC-CORE for the Wireless Technology programme of the Department of Science and Technology (India). Designed and developed firmware for proto IoT ZigBee protocol wireless devices and sensors for site-level networking.

Radio Frequency Propagation Measurements (2005): Research Assistant on TIFAC-CORE for the Wireless Technology programme of the Department of Science and Technology (India) in partnership with Motorola.