Current Research Areas: feminist technoscience; feminist surveillance studies; South Asian studies; participatory design research; data feminism
Radhika Radhakrishnan (she/her) is a doctoral student at MIT in the History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) program, and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Data + Feminism Lab. Her doctoral research analyses the digital surveillance of urban public spaces in India as experienced by gender-minoritised communities, with specific attention to street-level sex workers, using feminist, participatory, ethnographic, and design methodologies.
Radhika holds an M.A. in Women’s Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India, and a B.E. in Computer Science Engineering from M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, India. She has worked in India for over five years with civil society organisations to study the intersections of gender justice and digital technologies, most recently at the World Wide Web Foundation as a Gender Research Manager. Her scholarship has spanned the domains of Artificial Intelligence, data governance pertaining to surveillance technologies and health data, and feminist Internets, among others.
Radhika has published in the Catalyst journal of feminist technoscience, presented at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), and been featured in the global list of “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics.” She regularly writes for media publications, gives public talks, and hosts a podcast on digital rights from a feminist lens.
Website: https://radhika-radhakrishnan.com/