She is a member of the United Nations Global Pulse Data Privacy Advisory Group, and of UNESCO India's Media Freedom committee. She is also a Fellow of the Berkman Klein Centre at Harvard University, and has been a consultant to the Law Commission of India in the past. Chinmayi has published work on algorithms, harmful speech, privacy and information gatekeepers. She is lead author of the India country report in Freedom House's Freedom on the Net report for 2014 and 2015, and of the India report in the Global Network of Centers’ study of online intermediaries.