Responsible and human-centred AI
Fairness, bias, cultural representation, AI literacy, and public trust in AI systems.
Speaking
Public conversations across AI, music, culture, and community.
Speaker, panellist, judge, facilitator, and public scholar with experience across academic, industry, cultural, and community spaces.
Speaker biography
A voice across research, creativity, and public good.
Oyinkansola Onwuchekwa is a PhD Researcher in Data Science and AI at the University of Hull, an AI Research Engineer at SAGE-AI, and a multidisciplinary artist known as KKC. Her public work connects multilingual and bias-aware AI, cultural heritage, music emotion analysis, and creative practice.
She speaks on responsible AI, African language technologies, retrieval-augmented and hierarchical modelling for emotion recognition, AI literacy, music and culture, and the role of community-led knowledge in technology.
Topics
Available for talks, panels, media, workshops, and judging.
Multilingual NLP and African languages
Low-resource language technologies, language routing, evaluation, and culturally aware model development.
Music, emotion, and AI
Emotion recognition in Afrobeats and multilingual music lyrics across English, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, and Nigerian Pidgin.
Creative practice and research
How music, poetry, writing, identity, and public scholarship can shape the future of technology.
Cultural heritage and data governance
Community-led approaches to digital heritage, AI literacy, and responsible technology adoption.
Community, education, and impact
Volunteer leadership, public good, creative confidence, and inclusive routes into technology and culture.
Selected appearances
Academic, industry, cultural, and community platforms.
- Digital Humanities Conference 2025, Lisbon
- European Chatbot and Conversational AI Summit
- Greater Manchester Black Tech Expo
- Portsmouth Tech and Cultural Hub Summit, Hackathon Judge
- Public-facing talks on fairness, bias, and cultural representation in AI-driven music systems
Speaking enquiries
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For keynotes, panels, workshops, judging, podcasts, media, and public events.
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