Adya Danaditya

(Depending on the academic job market, maybe soon to be former) Product Manager

Spent the better part of 10 years defining and delivering software products - including marketing tools, loyalty app, hotel booking app, and government portals for civil servant lecturers and teachers, most of them used by a lot of people (one or two of them has millions of users - see LinkedIn below for full brag sheet!)

Currently…

I am a PhD student in Human Centered Computing at Georgia Tech. Part of the Critical Technocultures Lab, advised by Dr. Cindy Kaiying Lin. My research interest is understanding how digital technology adoption, readiness, and governance are done in the Global South, emphasizing narratives often overlooked in Global North-centered discourse on the topic.

Full CV here.

Past work in research

I worked with Dr Kathleen Carley - used network science and discourse analysis to help identify threats and risks in social media (PII exploitation, mis/disinformation, propaganda). One paper got published here

I also did work with Dr Illah Nourbakhsh on how to best engage the society on AI ethics literacy, documented here

Interned at the Brookings Institution helping empiric research on how propagandas being spread on digital medium including podcasts (here and here) and search engines (here) with Jessica Brandt and Valerie Wirtschafter

Worked with UNESCO as a consultant in deploying their ‘AI readiness’ and AI capacity building frameworks across South East Asia (Indonesia report here and Laos report here)

Fun stuffs you might wanna know

Friends and family called me Baday, mainly because Adya is hard to pronounce. Adya → Aday → Baday/Badai - /ˈba.dai̯/ (bah-DAI) Indonesian for storm. Has been using that name since elementary school, my mom and dad even called me that

I play bass from time to time - check out the band I played bass for since I was in my high school days here for things we recorded years ago. Planning to do more soon!

I taught CS night classes on the undergraduate level for around four semesters and had fun doing that, getting to know people and develop them

I also ran a mental-health focused non profit, BagiKata

I am a proud father of a boy and husband of a wonderful wife