Sukanya Shukla is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Virginia’s Digital Technology for Democracy Lab. Her research examines the ethics of emerging technologies, focusing on digital nudging and behaviour interventions, climate action, and data self-governance.
At the DTD Lab, she investigates how digital infrastructures and self-governance mechanisms shape decision-making, attention, and habit formation in climate policy contexts. She is developing System Consequentialism, a pluralistic ethical framework for evaluating technologically-mediated policy interventions. In her doctoral work, she applied this framework to green nudging.
Her research addresses concerns regarding autonomy, manipulation, and ethical design in digital environments by providing both theoretical frameworks and concrete policy recommendations. Her work has been published in Technology in Society. She has been a Ronald Coase Fellow and Don Lavoie Fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, where she explored how markets, institutions, and individual choice interact in policy design.
Sukanya received her PhD in Applied Ethics from Dublin City University. Before her PhD, she completed her MS in Philosophy of Science from the London School of Economics and her BS in Applied Physics from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra.
