Pariroo Rattan is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and is completing a secondary field in Music.
Her dissertation work is on digital identification, the urban poor, and the rise of populism in India. She conducts ethnography on the adoption of digital biometrics and payment systems by street vendors in Delhi. She has given public talks on digitization to street vendors and activist leaders at events organized by the National Hawkers Federation (NHF) and the People's Resource Center (PRC) in India. She is also writing comparatively on citizen resistance to legal data regulation regimes across China, India, the EU and the US and the sound politics of the urban economy. Pariroo has co-founded the Graduate Research in Science and Technology Studies (GRiSTS) Network to bring together young scholars working at the intersection of science, technology and society.