Rishab Nithyanand is the Ford-Mozilla Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute in New York. His work focuses on uncovering opaque Internet ecosystems and understanding the impact of the Internet on our socio-political realities. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University in May 2017. He was the recipient of the Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellowship in 2017, a Senior Fellowship in the Open Technology Fund Emerging Technology Program in 2016, and the Qualcomm Research Franklin Antonio Fellowship in 2015.