Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal holds the professorship in Digital Humanities, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and Media Studies in the department of Arts, Media, and Philosophy at the University of Basel, where he also directs the Digital Humanities Laboratory. He obtained a PhD in English and Science and Technology Studies (STS) from University of California Davis and a BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, and was previously the Ruth and Paul Idzik Collegiate Chair in Digital Scholarship, English, and Film, Television, and Theater at the University of Notre Dame. He is the co-author (with Théo Lepage-Richer and Lucy Suchman) of Neural Networks (University of Minnesota Press and meson press, 2024), and his award-winning writing—situated between media theory, literary studies, computer science, critical design, and STS—can be found in Critical Inquiry, Configurations, Social Text, American Literature, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, ACM FDG, ACM UIST, Design Issues, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among other scholarly and popular venues. His major book project, “Rendering: A Political Anatomy of Computation,” shows how our cultural narratives, politico-economic formulations, and epistemic beliefs become crystallized into computational hardware and software architectures, and his current research finds him researching topics as diverse as degrowth videogame design, small-scale interpretable AI, programming folklore, 13th-century Mongolian financial instruments, and cringe meme aesthetics. He is an incoming president of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA).