Monika Arora defended her Ph.D. thesis in Computational & Applied Mathematics from Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA in May 2018. She did her M.Sc. in Applied Statistics and Informatics (ASI) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India in May 2011. After her M.Sc. she worked for two years as a lead scientist in statistical modeling at a start up incubated by IIT-Bombay. Her current areas of research are count data and statistical modeling.

Md. Shad Akhtar completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Patna in 2019. He received his M.Tech from IIT (ISM), Dhanbad in 2014, and BEng from JMI, New Delhi, in 2009. He also has industry experience of more than two years with HCL Technologies Ltd. He has published research papers in various peer-reviewed conferences and journals of international repute. He has also served as the program committee member and reviewer for numerous international conferences and journals.

Manohar Kumar has a PhD in Political Theory from LUISS University Rome and has held Postdoctoral positions at IIT Delhi and GREQAM, Aix Marseille University. He is the co-author with Daniele Santoro of Speaking Truth to Power. A Theory of Whistleblowing. His works have appeared in Philosophy and Social Criticism, International Journal of Social Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Critical Criminology, Law and Philosophy, Economic and Political Weekly, and in edited volumes of Routledge.

Kiriti Kanjilal completed his 5 year Integrated Masters in Economics at the University of Hyderabad in 2013 and defended his Ph.D. in Economics at Washington State University in May 2018. His dissertation was titled Essays in Behavioral Industrial Organization and Natural Resource Economics. His research interests are primarily in the fields of microeconomics, game theory, industrial organization, environmental economics and behavioral economics. He also has experience in conducting economic experiments. He uses Mathematica, Stata and z-Tree for research.

Kaushik Kalyanaraman is an applied and computational mathematician. He trained to be an electrical engineer (bachelor's and master's degrees), chose to be a computer scientist (doctoral degree) and now identifies as an applied mathematician. His degrees are from Anna University Chennai, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in that order. Kaushik's research interests are interdisciplinary and span applied math, computer science and engineering.

Gayatri Nair is Assistant Professor of Sociology, at the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India. Her research interests lie in urban informal labour with an emphasis on the question of caste, gender and technology. With a focus on political economy, she has published work that interrogates the role of caste and gender in shaping ‘traditional’ livelihoods and new forms of work specifically platform-based gig work; also detailing how workers organise.

Gaurav Arora received his Ph.D. in Economics at Iowa State University in January, 2017. As part of his Ph.D. dissertation work, he combined applied economics models with remote sensing tools to study the impacts of local infrastructure, climate change and conservation policy on regional land use changes for Agroecosystems. He also designed and implemented a satellite image-processing algorithm to characterize land use change using historical Landsat sensor data. He was awarded James R. Prescott scholarship in 2016 for outstanding creativity in research, and Earl O.