Anubha Singh

My research examines how AI, data-driven technologies, and digital infrastructures reshape labor, care, and everyday life in the majority world, with a particular focus on India. I hold a PhD in Information with a graduate certificate in STS from the University of Michigan, and an MA in Global Digital Cultures from SOAS, University of London, where I was a Commonwealth Scholar.

My first book project, Ungovernable Onions: AI, Agriculture, and the Fantasy of Precision, draws on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in one of the world's largest onion supply chains. The book follows AI graders, IoT sensors, digital marketplaces, and seed traceability systems as they collide with the multispecies realities of smallholder farming, asking what happens when AI-driven governance expands into the living world. It extends a longer trajectory of research in postcolonial computing that examines how technology restructures labor and knowledge across agrarian, care, and platform economies in India.

A second strand of my work focuses on labor in the digital economy. I have published extensively on gig work in India, and my current projects in this area take up physical AI and egocentric data to ask what it means to labor within the AI political economy.

Before returning to academia, I spent seven years as a development practitioner with international feminist human rights organizations, including UN Women, CREA, and MacArthur Foundation–funded initiatives. This work continues to shape my scholarly commitments to gender, labor, and technology justice.