Lilly Irani

Lilly Christine Irani is an Iranian-American academic whose research spans topics in computer science, communication studies, feminist studies, entrepreneurship, and microwork. She is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego.[1] She specializes in cultural politics of high-tech work in the South Asian development and focuses on how actors create innovation cultures.[2]

Education and career

Irani graduated in 2004 from Stanford University with both a bachelor's degree in Computer science with honors in the Science, Technology, and Society program and a master's degree in computer science, specializing in human-computer interaction.[3] After working in user interface design at Google from 2003 to 2007,[4] she returned to graduate school, completing a Ph.D. in informatics at the University of California, Irvine in 2013.[3] Her dissertation, Designing Citizens in Transnational India, was supervised by Paul Dourish.[4]

She joined the University of California, San Diego faculty as an assistant professor of communications in 2013, and was tenured as an associate professor in 2019.[3] In 2023, she became the inaugural Faculty Director of the UC San Diego Labor Center.

Selected publications

Irani is the author of the book Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India (Princeton University Press, 2019),[5] which won the 2019 Diana Forsythe Prize for Science, Technology, Engineering, or Medicine of the American Anthropological Association[6] as well as the 2020 Outstanding Book Award of the International Communication Association.[7] She is also the coauthor, with Jesse Marx, of the book Redacted (Taller California Books, 2021).

Her journal and conference papers include:

  • Irani, Lilly; Vertesi, Janet; Dourish, Paul; Philip, Kavita; Grinter, Rebecca E. (2010), "Postcolonial computing: a lens on design and development", in Mynatt, Elizabeth D.; Schoner, Don; Fitzpatrick, Geraldine; Hudson, Scott E.; Edwards, W. Keith; Rodden, Tom (eds.), Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 10-15, 2010, ACM, pp. 1311–1320, doi:10.1145/1753326.1753522, S2CID 3128663
  • Ross, Joel; Irani, Lilly; Silberman, M. Six; Zaldivar, Andrew; Tomlinson, Bill (2010), "Who are the crowdworkers?: shifting demographics in mechanical turk", in Mynatt, Elizabeth D.; Schoner, Don; Fitzpatrick, Geraldine; Hudson, Scott E.; Edwards, W. Keith; Rodden, Tom (eds.), Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2010, Extended Abstracts Volume, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 10-15, 2010, ACM, pp. 2863–2872, doi:10.1145/1753846.1753873, S2CID 11386257
  • Irani, Lilly; Silberman, M. Six (2013), "Turkopticon: interrupting worker invisibility in Amazon Mechanical Turk", in Mackay, Wendy E.; Brewster, Stephen A.; Bødker, Susanne (eds.), 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '13, Paris, France, April 27 - May 2, 2013 (PDF), ACM, pp. 611–620, doi:10.1145/2470654.2470742, S2CID 207203679
  • Irani, Lilly (2015), "The cultural work of microwork", New Media Soc., 17 (5): 720–739, doi:10.1177/1461444813511926, S2CID 377594
  • Huber, Linda, et al. From Tech Lash to Tech Fash: Strategic Reflections on a Decade of Collective Organizing in Computing. 18 Aug. 2025, pp. 1–4, https://doi.org/10.1145/3737609.3747097[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Lilly Irani", Profiles, UC San Diego Department of Communication, retrieved 2021-11-03
  2. ↑ "Lilly Irani". communication.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2026-02-05.
  3. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae, 2021, retrieved 2021-11-03
  4. 1 2 Irani, Lilly Christine (2013), Designing Citizens in Transnational India, University of California, Irvine, ProQuest 1413316761; see especially vita, p. xi.
  5. ↑ Reviews of Chasing Innovation:
  6. ↑ "Diana Forsythe Prize", Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology & Computing, American Anthropological Association, retrieved 2021-11-03
  7. ↑ "Indian American Author Lilly Irani Wins Outstanding Book Award by International Communication Association", The Indian Panorama, 5 June 2020
  8. ↑ Irani, Lily (30 August 2025). From Tech Lash to Tech Fash: Strategic Reflections on a Decade of Collective Organizing in Computing. pp. 1–4. doi:10.1145/3737609.3747097. ISBN 979-8-4007-1968-4. Retrieved 2026-01-30. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
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