Ramesh Srinivasan is Associate Professor of Information Studies and Design Media Arts at UCLA. He is the founder of the University of California system's Digital Cultures Lab, exploring the meaning of technology worldwide as it spreads to the far reaches of our world.

Srinivasan earned his PhD in design studies at Harvard; his master's degree in media arts and science at MIT; and his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering at Stanford. He has received fellowships in MIT's Media Lab in Cambridge and the MIT Media Lab Asia. He has also been a teaching fellow at the Graduate School of Design and Department of Visual and Environmental Design at Harvard.

Srinivasan is a regular speaker for TEDx Talks, and makes regular media appearances on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Young Turks, MSNBC, and Public Radio International. His writings have been published by The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Quartz, and CNN, among others.