Redesigning Governance: The Globalization of India’s Digital Public Infrastructure

Aleksandra Korolova

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs and Associate Director of the Technology and Society Certificate Program, Information Technology Track

Princeton University

Aleksandra (Sasha) Korolova is an assistant professor of computer science and public affairs and the associate director of the Technology and Society Certificate Program, Information Technology Track. Most recently, Korolova was a WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. She was previously a research scientist at Google and a privacy advisor at Snap, Inc., a camera company. Her research focuses on the study of the societal impacts of algorithms and machine learning.

Mihir Kshirsagar

Tech Policy Clinic Lead, Center for Information Technology Policy

Princeton University

Mihir joined Princeton's CITP in 2019 to run a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary technology policy clinic that gives students and scholars an opportunity to engage directly in the policy process. Before coming to Princeton, he served in the New York Attorney General’s Bureau of Internet & Technology as a civil prosecutor involved in novel litigation concerning consumer protection, antitrust, and technology. He was lead trial counsel for one of the largest consumer payouts in the State’s history. Previously, he worked for Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Cahill Gordon Reindel LLP in New York City on a variety of antitrust, securities and commercial disputes involving emerging and traditional industries. Before law school he was a policy analyst at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C., educating policy makers about the civil liberties implications of new surveillance technologies. Mihir attended Deep Springs College and received an A.B. from Harvard College in 2000 and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006.

Akash Kapur

Senior Fellow, The GovLab (NYU)

New York University

Akash Kapur is a writer and journalist whose work focuses on utopia, technology and the intersection of the two. He is the author of two books, “Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia” and “India Becoming.” He is a former columnist for the New York Times, and writes regularly for the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and various other publications. He is a senior fellow at The GovLab (NYU), where his work focuses on data policy and the legal and ethical implications of emerging technologies like AI. He is a member of the founding Academic Advisory Council for Krea University, a liberal arts university in India. D.Phil. Oxford University

Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Princeton University

Andrés Monroy-Hernández works on human-computer interaction and social computing. Along with his team, he designs and studies technologies that help millions of people connect and collaborate in new ways. He led the creation of the Scratch online community at MIT, the crowd-powered Cortana scheduling assistant at Microsoft, and several social AR and wearable experiences at Snap Inc. At Princeton, he directs the Human-computer Interaction Lab, focusing on public-interest technology development.

His research has received best paper awards at CHI, CSCW, HCOMP, and ICWSM, and has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, Wired, BBC, and The Economist. He was the technical program co-chair for the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’18) and the ACM Conference on Collective Intelligence (CI ’19). He was named one of the most influential Latinos in Tech by CNET and one of the MIT Technology Review’s 35-under-35 Innovators for his research on citizens’ use of social media to circumvent drug cartel violence and censorship.

Monroy-Hernández was on the leadership team of the Future Social Experiences Lab at Microsoft Research and founded the HCI research team at Snap Inc. He holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab and a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics engineering from Tec de Monterrey in México.

Rajesh Veeraraghavan

Associate Professor, Science Technology and International Affairs, School of Foreign Service

Georgetown University

I am currently an Associate Professor of Science Technology and International Affairs (STIA) Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University and was previously a Fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard University. I consulted for the Gates Foundation and Open Society Foundation. Previously, I worked as an associate researcher at the Technology for Emerging Markets group at Microsoft Research, India. In my prior life, I was a software developer at Microsoft. I have a Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Clemson University, Master’s degree in Economics from Cleveland State University, and Bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Management from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India.