Dr. Ilavarasan, who holds a Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur, is a recipient of the Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship Award at IIT Delhi and the Prof. M.N. Srinivas Memorial Prize of the Indian Sociological Society. He has served as a consultant to the Ministry of Labour and Employment (India), the World Bank, Oxford Analytica, and Indicus Analytics. Dr. Ilavarasan’s research interests include technology and society, with a special focus on ICTs and India.