Organisers and panelist

Panelist

Simi Akintoye

Dr. Simi Akintoye is an Associate Professor at the Northumbria Law School, UK. Her current research focuses on legal and ethical regulation of emerging technologies and data protection law. As a practitioner, Simi consulted for the Human Brain Project (partly funded by the European Union), providing specialist advice on data protection and ethical responsibility.

Neha Kumar

Dr. Neha Kumar is an Associate Professor jointly appointed at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Her research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction and global sustainable development, with a focus on global health and community informatics. Her work contributes feminist perspectives to the design and integration of emerging technologies across marginalized contexts in the Global South. Neha co-started the HCI across border global community (HCIxB).

Shaimaa Lazem

Dr. Shaimaa Lazem is an associate research professor at the City of Scientific Research and Technology Applications (SRTA-City). She is interested in HCI in non-Western cultural contexts, participatory design, and decolonizing HCI. She is working on developing human-centred approaches to design Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications in Africa with support from the Google 2020 Award for Inclusion Research and the Google AI 2021 Award. She is the co-founder of the ArabHCI community and general chair of the AfriCHI 2025 conference.

Stef Garasto

Dr. Stef Garasto is a Researcher and Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, focusing on applied machine learning and ethics and justice in data science. Stef’s approach to responsible use of AI, machine learning, and data science, rooted in intersectional feminism and critical pedagogy, encompasses applications and pedagogy, computational and participatory methods.

Joel Fisher

Prof. Joel Fischer is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK, where I am a member of the Mixed Reality Lab, and affiliated with the Cobot Maker Space, and the Responsible Digital Futures group. My research in Human-AI Interaction takes a human-centred view to understand the adoption and embedding of AI-infused technologies into everyday life and work to benefit societies. Joel is the Co-Investigator and Research Pillar Lead on Responsible AI UK, Research Director on the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems TAS Hub and a Co-I on the Horizon Digital Economy centre on “Trusted Data-Driven Products”.

Organisers

Makuochi S. Nkwo

Dr. Makuochi S. Nkwo is a Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, London, UK, where he works at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Responsible AI, and Digital Ethics and Governance. As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in a Google-funded research project at the University of Namibia, Windhoek, I developed a project titled "Responsible Human-Centred AI in Africa (RHAI-AFRICA)", which was recognized as one of the 19 Excellent AI Research Projects Worldwide, according to the IRCAI UNESCO Global Top 100 2022 Report. My research focuses on leveraging AI-driven technologies to advance efforts towards achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Muhammad Adamu

Dr. Muhammad Adamu is a Research Fellow in Responsible AI for Health at the University of Nottingham, UK. His current research focuses on establishing the “AI in/from Africa” theme via responsible research and innovation, health data governance, and responsible digital futures. He is strongly associated with the African perspective on Human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence.

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