Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan is an interdisciplinary researcher in AI and the social sciences. He’s a PhD student at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford. Desikan continues to work in AI policy as the AI and Tech Lead at the Autonomy Institute, and was formerly senior research fellow at the IPPR. His AI policy work ranges from the labor market impact and firm composition of AI in the United Kingdom to its climate impact and integration in public services.

His research has been featured in publications and workshops at leading venues across disciplines, including Nature, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Organization Studies, Cognition, and more. He received an MA in computational social sciences from the University of Chicago, and spent two years as a doctoral candidate in the computer science department at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), before leaving to focus on public policy and social science research.