Lilly Irani

PhD Candidate
UC Irvine, Dept. of Informatics
lirani ( at ) uci.edu

I am a PhD candidate in Informatics with a Graduate Feminist Emphasis, working at the intersection of Anthropology, Science Technology Studies, and HCI. I'm particularly interested in political economy and globalization issues in technoculture. My dissertation work looks at new design practices emerging at the intersection of design and development discourses in India.

I study with Paul Dourish in the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction. I also work with Kavita Philip (Women's Studies and Informatics) and Keith Murphy (Anthropology).

Previously, I spent four years at Google as a User Experience Designer on a range of products including AdWords, Page Creator, Notebook, and some other things that haven't seen the light of day yet. My focus was on early stage design research, information architecture, and interaction design. I have an M.S. in Computer Science specializing in Human-Computer Interaction, a B.S. in Computer Science with honors in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford University.