Dr. Jaideep Gupte is the principal investigator on Smart Data for Inclusive Cities funded by the European Commission. He a is Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex where his research interrogates urban violence and well-being.

Jaideep is interested in using multi-disciplinary approaches and local data to understand material, temporal and political aspects of urban informality. Jaideep also leads the Cities and Sustainable Infrastructure portfolio of the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), UKRI.