GAIN India - Organising Committee
Kanta Dihal
Dr Kanta Dihal is a Senior Research Fellow on the AI Narratives project. She is one of the Project Leads on Global AI Narratives and the Project Development Lead on Decolonizing AI. In her research, she explores how fictional and nonfictional stories shape the development and public understanding of artificial intelligence. Kanta's work intersects the fields of science communication, literature and science, and science fiction. She is co-editor of the forthcoming collection AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2020) and is currently working with Dr Stephen Cave on the monograph AI: A Mythology.
Patrick French
Patrick French is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Ahmedabad University, and Professor for the Public Understanding of the Humanities. His works of history and biography have won awards including the Hawthornden Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Royal Society of Literature WH Heinemann Prize and the US National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2016-18, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge University.
Elizabeth Seger
Elizabeth Seger is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and a research assistant at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI). Elizabeth’s PhD research broadly addresses the ethics and regulation of AI-enabled technologies with emphasis on trust in user-AI interactions and the epistemic impacts of AI on knowledge production and dissemination. Elizabeth holds an MPhil in Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge and a BSc in Human Biology and Society from UCLA.
Rashi Maheshwari
Rashi Maheshwari is a Research Assistant at Ahmedabad University with a background in literature, gender, and media studies. She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Delhi and an MA in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Literature from Ashoka University.
Saumya Malviya
Saumya Malviya is an assistant professor at the School of Arts and Sciences at Ahmedabad University. He is trained as a social anthropologist and specialises in the sociology of mathematical knowledge. His doctoral research involved an ethnographic study of mathematics and mathematicians across institutional contexts in India. He is working on a monograph titled ‘Mathematics as a Form of Life: An Ethnographic Study’.