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Krishnan Narayanan

Krishnan Narayanan

PhD Student

Dept. of HSS / DSAI IIT Madras

Krishnan Narayanan is the co-founder and President of itihaasa Research and Digital, and studies the evolution of technology domains in India. He is an award-winning author, and has co-authored Against All Odds - The IT Story of India (Penguin India 2022) and Empowering India (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2023).

Earlier at Infosys, he was a member of the Infosys Labs Management Council, managed a global transformation program in partnership with Microsoft and collaborated with research & innovation clusters from the US, Netherlands and Australia. He has degrees from IIT Madras and XLRI Jamshedpur. He is past President IIT Madras Alumni Association, and a founding governing board member of AquaMAP Water Centre.

Publications

Easing gig workers' stress
Omir Kumar , Krishnan Narayanan
Media The Hindu Businessline 2026
COIN #99. From Learning Organizations to Learning Architectures
Venkat Ramaswamy , Krishnan Narayanan
Blog Co-Intelligence Revolution Substack 2026
COIN #98. Imagining a COIN University
Venkat Ramaswamy , Krishnan Narayanan
Blog Co-Intelligence Revolution Substack 2026
COIN #97. Why Education Can No Longer Be a Sector — and Must Become a COIN System
Venkat Ramaswamy , Krishnan Narayanan
Blog Co-Intelligence Revolution Substack 2026
COIN #92. The New Meaning of Learning
Venkat Ramaswamy , Krishnan Narayanan
Blog Co-Intelligence Revolution Substack 2026
COIN #102. The New Unit of Educational Design: Interaction Loops and TDIs
Venkat Ramaswamy , Krishnan Narayanan
Blog Co-Intelligence Revolution Substack 2026
COIN #101. Towards COIN Education: Reimagining Learning and Teaching in a Co-Intelligent World
Venkat Ramaswamy , Krishnan Narayanan
Blog Co-Intelligence Revolution Substack 2026
COIN #100. Why Curriculum Is No Longer the Unit of Design
Venkat Ramaswamy , Krishnan Narayanan
Blog Co-Intelligence Revolution Substack 2026
The Algorithmic–Human Manager: AI, Apps, and Workers in the Indian Gig Economy
Omir Kumar , Krishnan Narayanan
Report / Discussion Paper CeRAI, under the Co-Intelligence (COIN) Network 2025
AI models for India
Balaraman Ravindran , Krishnan Narayanan
Media IITM Shaastra Magazine 2025
AI and the Future of Work in India
Omir Kumar , Krishnan Narayanan
Media CeRAI's Substack 2025
Should India build its own AI foundation models?
Balaraman Ravindran , Krishnan Narayanan
Media The Times of India 2025
Focus on AI Education for Both AI Users and AI Creators
Balaraman Ravindran , Krishnan Narayanan
Media The Times of India 2025
After DeepSeek: For India, time for the AI leap
Balaraman Ravindran , Krishnan Narayanan
Media The Indian Express 2025
AI safety isn't just about preventing a 'rogue AI'
Balaraman Ravindran , Krishnan Narayanan
Media The Times of India 2024
Data Analytics vs Data Science: Is there a difference? Know jobs and roles available
Balaraman Ravindran , Krishnan Narayanan
Media The Indian Express 2024

Projects

AI in Higher Education; AI and Knowledge Futures
Balaraman Ravindran , Krishnan Narayanan , Omir Kumar , Sriya Sridhar , Bangalore
Policy ResearchEthicsFuture of WorkGovernance/Regulation
Future of Education-Society Research Collaboration with Aapti Institute
Balaraman Ravindran , Krishnan Narayanan , Sriya Sridhar , Omir Kumar Collaborator: Aapti Institute
Policy ResearchFuture of WorkGig Economy
GenAI4Edu: Generative AI at Higher Educational Institutions and Schools
Krishnan Narayanan , Karthik Raman
ai-and-society
Impact of AI and Digital Technologies on Gig Workers
Balaraman Ravindran , Sudarsan Padmanabhan , Omir Kumar , Krishnan Narayanan
Policy ResearchFuture of WorkGig Economy
UPRIGHT: Understanding Socio-Technical Pathways of Risky GenAI Use: A Global North–South Seeding Project
Balaraman Ravindran , Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios , Geetha Raju , Gokul S Krishnan , Krishnan Narayanan
Policy ResearchGovernance/RegulationEducationTechnical Research
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