Bio
Aindriya Barua is a queer Indigenous disabled artist and AI engineer from rural Tripura in northeast India. Their work sits at the intersection of ethical artificial intelligence, art, and social justice, with a particular focus on making technology more inclusive, accessible, and responsive to lived experience. They founded Shhor, an initiative recognized by UNFPA and the World Summit Awards for its intersectional feminist AI work addressing online hate speech, particularly harms affecting marginalized communities in India’s diverse linguistic landscape.
Barua’s work has been featured in national media and presented in art exhibitions internationally. Across both their technical and artistic practice, they explore how AI systems can be designed around equity, accessibility, and the experiences of communities that are often excluded from mainstream technology development. (they/them)