Indira Ganesh

Biography

Maya Indira Ganesh is assistant teaching professor co-directing the MSt in AI Ethics & Society at the Institute for Continuing Education, and a Senior Researcher at LCFI at the University of Cambridge. Maya earned a Drphil in Cultural Studies from Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Germany. Her thesis was about the material, epistemic, and discursive infrastructures shaping the emergence of driverless cars as putatively ‘ethical’ and ‘autonomous’. Her work is influenced by scholarship and practice in feminist approaches to technoscience, STS, Digital Anthropology, Media Studies, and Critical Data/Algorithm Studies. Her current research is about AI Ethics pedagogy in mediating the relationship between theory and practice. Between 2008-2017, Maya was a researcher working with digital rights organisations at the intersection of gender justice and digital freedom of expression with human rights defenders, activists, and journalists across the majority world.