[1] Srinivasan earned a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, followed by a master’s degree in Media Studies from the MIT Media Lab, and a PhD in Design from Harvard University, where his research focused on the intersection of technology, design, and culture.

Srinivasan previously served as a national surrogate for Senator Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign and as an Innovation policy committee member for President Biden.

Rethinking How Technology Impacts Our World, After the Internet with Adam Fish, and Beyond the Valley, which Forbes listed as a top ten tech book in 2019.

[9][10] Srinivasan has worked with bloggers who overthrew the recent authoritarian Kyrgyz regime,[11][12][13] non-literate tribal populations in India to study how literacy emerges through uses of technology,[14] and traditional Native American communities to study how non-Western understandings of the world can introduce new ways of looking at cultural heritage and the future of the internet and networked technologies.

[18] Srinivasan is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Anthropological Association, and a member of the editorial boards of Science, Technology, & Human Values, International Journal of E-Politics, and Information Technologies and International Development.