Pratik Nyaupane is a doctoral student in communication at the University of Southern California in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, where he broadly looks at the intersection between technology and culture. As a graduate researcher, Pratik has been exploring the ways in which technology mediates interactions through state and corporate power. His most recent projects consist of evaluating policing and surveillance technologies in urban spaces such as university campuses and sports stadiums. He also looks at the digitization practices of citizenship, migration, and borders, particularly in Nepal through the National ID biometric identification system.

His academic work can be found in the International Journal of Communication, International Journal of Sport Communication, and Big Data & Society. He has presented his research at The International Communication Association (ICA), Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), International Association of Communication and Sport (IACS), Surveillance Studies Network (SSN), and the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) among others.