Biography

Dr. Sushant Kumar is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean of Social Outreach at Jindal School of Government and Public Policy. He is a PhD in Public Policy from Northeastern University, Boston and has been a Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, Program in Science, Technology and Society. He works on science and technology policy issues, specifically focusing on the governance of Artificial Intelligence technologies currently. He uses a constructivist approach in his research to understand how ideas come to be, the role science and framing plays in legitimizing policy ideas, and how scientific evidence itself is socio-politically situated. He deploys interdisciplinary analytical frameworks from policy studies, STS and political communication.

His work has been published and accepted in leading journals including The Lancet, Journal of South Asian Studies, Behavioral Sciences, Economic and Political Weekly and in media platforms like The Wire and scroll.in. He has presented his work at leading international annual conferences of Society for Social Studies of Science, Association of South Asian Studies, Association of Asian Studies and Science and Democracy Network at Harvard. He has taught courses in Science, Technology and Public Policy, Techniques of Policy Analysis and Data Analysis using Python programming language.