Ravtosh is responsible for identifying, developing, and executing strategies for research and development collaborations, building and strengthening relationships with stakeholders and partners of strategic importance, analyses of research and creative practices activity and trends for strategic planning and decision making, human ethics reviews, and grant proposal development. 

She received her PhD in public policy from Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University, Montreal. Ravtosh also holds an MPhil and an MA in sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, and a BA (Hons) in sociology from Miranda House, University of Delhi. As a faculty member at Duke University, she taught graduate classes in science, technology, and development policy. 

Ravtosh has worked as a researcher on projects funded by NSF, SSHRC, IDRC, Canada and the Institute on Governance, Ottawa, and as a consultant to The World Bank, Washington DC. Her research experience includes projects on public engagement with emerging technologies, anticipatory technology governance, innovation policy, computer science research capacity in Kenya and Uganda, gender and computing in Uganda, societal and ethical implications of synthetic biology, research cultures and the construction of scientific careers, and trust and integrity in science. Her publications appear in journals like Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, Minerva, Science and Public Policy, Scientometrics, and Social Studies of Science. Ravtosh also has over a decade of experience as a public sector financial manager in key ministries of the federal government of India.