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Lilly Irani is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. She earned her Ph.D. in Informatics with a Feminist Emphasis from the University of California, Irvine, an M.S. in Computer Science with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Irani's research investigates the cultural politics of high-tech work practices, with a focus on how actors produce “innovation” cultures. Trained as an ethnographer of work, she analyzes interactional, organizational, and cultural dynamics as mediated by technology. She specializes in the cultural politics of high-tech work in the context of South Asian development and global AI economies. Her work draws on and contributes to Science and Technology Studies, Human-Computer Interaction, and South Asia studies. Drawing on ten years of experience as a computer scientist, she develops novel technical and organizational systems for the contexts she studies. She serves as faculty in the Design Lab at UC San Diego.