Dr. Dibyadyuti Roy

Dr. Dibyadyuti Roy is a cultural analyst of dominant technologies with experience as a researcher and educator in multidisciplinary academic environments across three continents. His scholarly work spans critical AI studies, digital humanities, new media theory, and postcolonial science and technology studies, with a current focus on the impact of algorithmic technologies within marginalized communities in Global Majority regions.

His publications appear in leading journals including Feminist Media Studies, Gender, Place and Culture, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Journal of Leisure Research, Health Promotion International, and Surveillance & Society. His recent scholarship also includes the edited volume on Comics and the Global South: Decolonial Methodologies in Comics Studies (Leuven University Press, 2026) and contributions to Global Debates in the Digital Humanities and What We Teach When We Teach Digital Humanities (both from University of Minnesota Press), Digital Humanities Laboratories and Doing Digital Humanities Practice, Training, Research (both Routledge).

Dr. Roy is a Research Affiliate with the Data and Society Research Institute (USA) and has co-founded both the Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations (DHARTI)—India's first DH Alliance—as well as the Critical Lens on AI from Majority Worlds (CLAIM), a Global Majority-focused collective interrogating the societal implications of AI.

Dr. Roy's public scholarship commands attention on the world stage, with keynote, plenary, and panel appearances at high-profile international venues. Recent highlights include the UNESCO and Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs AI for Information Accessibility Conference (2024), the Human-Centred AI and Transformative Possibilities Conference (2025) at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, the India AI Impact Summit (2026), and the Cultural Institute's landmark event for the creative sector, 'What's Next: AI, Skills and the Future of the Creative Industries' (2026). These conversations extends further through Dr. Roy's media engagement, popular articles, and podcasts — amplifying critical humanistic conversations about modern AI across public audiences worldwide.

Currently, Dr. Roy is Associate Professor in cultural studies, media studies, and digital humanities at the University of Leeds.