Research

Research Interests

• Information organisation and knowledge representation
• Human information behaviour in low-resource environments
• NLP for information quality and classification
• AI-assisted information systems for the Global South
• Learning technology design for low-bandwidth, mobile-first contexts
• Educational data and learning analytics
• Responsible AI and information ethics
• Offline-first and sovereign data architectures

My primary research interest sits at the intersection of information science and the design of intelligent systems for underrepresented contexts. I want to understand how information organisation systems — classification schemes, retrieval architectures, knowledge representations — encode assumptions about users and environments, and how those assumptions fail when the user is a researcher at a regional African university, a community health worker without reliable connectivity, or a small-business owner transacting through mobile money. The technical methods I bring to these questions include natural language processing, machine learning, and large language model evaluation — tools I have applied in research and in production, and that I want to apply now with a more rigorous theoretical foundation.

My secondary interest is Educational Technology, grounded in two years of teaching over 300 undergraduate students at the University of Cape Coast. I am interested in how learning systems can be designed to be genuinely responsive to learners in low-bandwidth, multilingual, mobile-first environments — not adapted from Western defaults, but built from the ground up for the contexts where most of the world actually learns. I believe the two interests are inseparable: access to information and access to learning are the same problem, viewed from different angles.