Dr Obinna Anya is a Senior UX Researcher at Google working on enterprise cloud AI solutions. He is also the Co-founder and Executive Director of VarsityMentor. He was previously a Research Staff Member at IBM Research, and prior to that, a Research Scientist at Liverpool Hope University. He received a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Liverpool and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Nigeria. His research interests include context-aware interaction, big data analytics, enterprise collaborative systems, and usable AI. Obinna's work has shaped the design of products and services in e-health, future work design, enterprise AI, ethical social robotics, cloud service compliance monitoring and usable machine learning, and has been published in high-quality peer-reviewed journals and academic conferences. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems and on the program committee of AfriCHI. He is the General co-Chair of Africhi 2025 to be held in Egypt.
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