Eswaran Subrahmanian (known as "Sub") is a cross-disciplinary computer scientist and engineering design theorist, working at Carnegie Mellon University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He is also a visiting honorary professor at the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.
Together with Yoram Reich and Sruthi Krishnan, he coauthored We Are Not Users: Dialogue, Diversity, and Design in 2020, edited several books, as well as numerous papers on design theory and practice, emphasizing its participatory and pluralistic aspects.
Subrahmanian is an AAAS Fellow, ACM Distinguished Member, and a Fellow of The Design Society.