Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science @ CU Boulder
On the job market - seeking full-time Research Scientist or UX/AI Research roles.
My research focuses on making AI more understandable, useful, and responsive to people's needs by drawing on their everyday experiences, local knowledge, and values. I design and develop LLM-based tools, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and multi-agent AI systems that support learning and work. I test these tools with real users to understand how people learn with, rely on, and collaborate with AI. Through mixed-methods research, I translate these insights into practical design recommendations while ensuring that communities often overlooked in AI development have a voice in shaping its future.
Advised by Dr. Tom Yeh at the Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder.
Studying how people understand and work with emerging AI systems.
Designing AI that centers human trust, collaboration, and context.
Making AI understandable for learners and educators in the Global South.
Designing and evaluating AI agents that support learning, collaboration, and complex tasks.
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Publications
Peer-reviewed papers and book chapters at CHI, EAAI (AAAI), IDC, AfriCHI, ICML, and Springer.
Adejoro, C. O., Anuyah, O., Sakpere, A., Ani, U. E., Tijani, I. E., & Yeh, T.
CHI EA '26Lucas, J. S., Irikefe, P. O., Uchendu, A., Najaer, U., Adejoro, C. O., Sterling, P., & Lee, D.
ICML 2026 (Position Track)Adejoro, C. O., Anuyah, O., Badillo-Urquiola, K., Raza, A., & Yeh, T.
EAAI (AAAI) '26Nkwo, M., Ikwunne, T., Adejoro, C. O., & Anuyah, O.
Springer (Book Chapter)Anuyah, O., Wan, R., Adejoro, C. O., Yeh, T., Metoyer, R., & Badillo-Urquiola, K.
AfriCHI '23Adejoro, C. O., Arn, L., Schwartz, L., & Yeh, T.
IDC '23Portfolio
How do people's cultural contexts shape trust and collaboration with AI? I led a five-person team studying these questions with 12 educators in Nigeria and the U.S., developing six AI literacy frameworks informed by HCI, cognitive science, and sociocultural theory.
Exploring how creative writing can bring children's voices into AI design. Working with teachers in Nigeria, I helped organize an inclusive writing contest for 30 children aged 10–13, inviting them to imagine how AI could address community needs and reflect their cultural values.
Investigating how infrastructure, culture, and local priorities shape AI adoption in under-resourced communities. I led research across five teams, including workshops with 56 teachers, to inform human-centered design and policy recommendations.
Designing culturally grounded AI learning experiences and studying how students trust and use them. I built a retrieval-augmented learning system supported by a knowledge base of over 5,000 K–12 lesson plans and evaluated student interactions across three classrooms.
Exploring how automation risk varies across occupations, wages, education levels, and geography. Using approximately 20,000 U.S. labor records, I developed predictive models and visual analyses to inform workforce planning and policy decisions.
Comparing deep learning approaches to recognizing emotion across speech datasets. We developed an audio processing and augmentation pipeline for over 10,000 samples, achieving approximately 77% overall accuracy while examining differences in performance across emotions.
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Background
University of Colorado Boulder
Advised by Dr. Tom Yeh. HCI, Human-Centered AI, and AI Literacy.
CU Boulder
Teaching and mentoring in HCI and Senior Capstone Projects.
Nigeria's federal public education system
An experience that continues to shape my focus on AI education in resource-constrained settings.
Before my PhD studies, I obtained:
M.S. in Computer Science
University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA
M.S. in Computer Science
University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria
Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE), Computer Science and Mathematics
Federal College of Education, Okene, Nigeria
Contact
I'm always glad to discuss collaborations on human-centered AI. The best way to reach me is by email.