Ashwin J. Mathew

Ashwin J. Mathew is a Senior Lecturer in Global Digital Cultures at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. He holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley's School of Information (2014) and previously worked as a programmer/architect at Adobe and Sun Microsystems. His research focuses on the sociotechnical dimensions of Internet infrastructure, cybersecurity cultures, and global digital governance. Key themes include technical communities' practices, trust in network operations, and comparative studies between Global South/North contexts.

Research affiliations include the Cyber Security Research Group, King's Cybersecurity Centre, and the Global Digital Cultures Research Group. He teaches courses on digital infrastructure's political-economic conditions and has organized events like the Symposium on Information Controls (2025) and the #GoingGlobal conference (2022).

Awarded the 2016 iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award for his work on inter-domain routing trust dynamics and the 2021 STAST Best Paper Award for PGP web of trust analysis. Active in interdisciplinary research groups addressing cyber security, digital culture, and global capitalism.