Aditi Dey is a PhD candidate in Politics at the New School for Social Research, New York. Her research focuses on cities, technology, labor and political economy. Trained as a historian and a political scientist, she works with an interdisciplinary methodological approach, combining archival and ethnographic methods. Her doctoral research examines the historical political economy of technology in India from the city of Bangalore, with a focus on the transformation of tech-work, labor politics and deindustrializing urban ecologies. Her works on cities have been published in journals such as Urban Studies.

Prior to pursuing her PhD in New York City, she worked and researched in Mumbai Bangalore and Delhi. In addition to academic research, she has engaged in multiple public history and digital humanities projects, having presented her works at spaces such as Science Gallery in Bengaluru and Center for Performance Research in New York.