Rajiv Mishra
Institute: Jawaharlal Nehru University
Brief Profile: Rajiv Mishra has interest in domains encompassing sciences and social sciences. With first training as a science and technology student in general and ICTs more specifically added with his later training as a social science student provides a strong sense of inclination towards interdisciplinary research in this area.
Rajiv is also currently working into the domain of STS, Internet and Big Data. Furthermore, his interest in Diaspora studies is motivated with the fact that he was part of Diaspora as a student who went to study data communications and internet engineering in UCL, London. The whole context of his background and training provides him the necessary experience to
leverage it in the interdisciplinary research in diaspora and technology. Rajiv is more interested to study and research about the role of Indian Diaspora in United States technology industry (Silicon Valley, Fundamental
Research, Defence Productions etc), the role of returning Indian diaspora in development of India's IT hubs and clusters and how the notion of diaspora is
related to the technology
Area of Specialization (keywords): Science and Technology, Knowledge Transfer
Contact Address: Jawaharlal Nehru University
E-mail id: [email protected]