My qualitative and interpretive research focused on India, brings transnational attention to how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning enables new forms of technological governance as it turns to newer sites such as smallholder agriculture. My dissertation-book project is based on an 18-month ethnography of the onion supply chain in India, where I examine the daily practices of AI-enabled AgTech and how it is reshaping farming while redefining the future of smallholder agriculture. My works is informed by and contributes to critical data studies, global media studies, Science and Technology Studies, and Human Computer Interaction.

At the School of Information, I am co-advised by Silvia Lindtner and Patricia Garcia. I am an affiliate researcher with the Centre for Ethics, Computing and Society.

Prior to my PhD, I was a Commonwealth Scholar at SOAS, University of London, where I completed my MA in Global Digital Cultures. At SOAS, I studied the technological reimagining of postcolonial Indian state through an extensive examination of the Digital India program. 

I have seven years of transnational experience as a community-based, feminist, and social-justice oriented practitioner. Among other achievements and community service, I collaboratively designed and coordinated a MacArthur Foundation-funded, social-impact award-winning infoline. This service disseminates information about sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) to marginalized rural communities with limited internet access in India.

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Areas of interest

Ethnography of Computing, Future of Agriculture, Future of Work, Feminist and Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies, Human Computer Interaction

Education

M.A. Global Digital Cultures (SOAS, University of London)

M.A. Social Work (University of Delhi)