I am a senior researcher with the AI on the Ground team at the Data & Society Research Institute (D&S). I work on developing robust methods to evaluate and regulate how algorithmic systems impact everyday life. I also help guide research ethics at the D&S and sustain equity in collaborative research practices both internally and with external partners. 

I am broadly interested in examining the everyday experiences of people subject to data-driven practices. Most people find themselves at the receiving end of data-driven systems, but this does not mean they have no agency. I follow the ordinary ethics of exercising this human agency in navigating everyday struggles with data-driven systems.

My research sits at the intersection of AI infrastructures, majority world scholarship, and public policy for data-driven systems, and uses methods of interview-based qualitative sociology and multi-sited ethnography.

Email: ranjit [at] datasociety [dot] net.

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