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Lilly Irani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Her research broadly investigates the cultural politics of high-tech work practices and the ways in which actors produce cultures of innovation. As a trained ethnographer and computer scientist, she analyzes the interactional, organizational, and cultural dynamics that are mediated by technology. Her work specializes in the cultural politics of high-tech work within the contexts of South Asian development and global AI economies. Irani has authored the book 'Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India,' published by Princeton University Press in 2019, in which she explores the historical and political aspects of development framed within entrepreneurship. She serves on the editorial advisory boards for several journals and has received various grants for her research from institutions such as the Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Her scholarly contributions extend across multiple disciplines, including Science and Technology Studies and Human-Computer Interaction.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).