WAILabs

Chief Research Officer

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Vinutha is a computer scientist, working on innovation and use of AI technology in systems across Space, Healthcare and Transport sectors at lower TRLs. Her work, and interests lie in mediation between the artificial and the real, building and understanding AI models, and making them useful in the real world through relevant methodologies.Her mandate as CRO in WAI is to increase opportunities for women researchers.

Science Communicator

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Seren is a researcher and consultant in the AI Psychology field, focusing on the integration of psychological principles into human-AI systems. She has a background in psycholinguistics and NLP for emotion recognition, personality modeling, and user profiling. Her focus areas include empathetic AI, conversational systems, and mental health applications.​​​​

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Volunteer Coordinator
 

Ibtissam is a Research Engineer at Nokia Bell Labs, specializing in machine learning and artificial intelligence for wireless communication systems. She holds a Ph.D. in Vehicular Edge Computing from the University Grenoble Alpes, completed under a CIFRE agreement with Renault France. Her research experience spans machine learning for wireless networks, autonomous vehicles, edge computing, and semantic communication.​​​

Lead in Psychology

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Auxane is a cyberpsychologist and AI-ethics researcher examining psychological impacts of AI as social agent, social robots, video games, and immersive XR. At TUM's Institute for Ethics in AI, she coordinates the EU-funded MSCA doctoral network alignAI. A Friedrich Schiedel Fellow, she co-leads TUM Think Tank's Immersive Realities working group and serves as Women in Games and WAI Germany ambassador.​

Affiliated Researcher​

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Jauwairia Nasir is a postdoctoral fellow at Chair of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at University of Augsburg. Her research interests broadly include human-machine interaction, social robotics, multimodal behavioral analysis, and machine learning applied in the fields of education and health care. ​

Lead in Healthcare, UAE

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Jinane is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at RIT Dubai, UAE. She has been in the research field for over more than 15 years in machine learning and computer vision, during which she worked with multidisciplinary teams on a long track of research papers.

Lead in Model Testing, USA

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Suparna an experienced software engineer with expertise in aiding small businesses in their digital transformation efforts in transformative, emerging technologies like AI. As Chief of Staff for WAI USA, she has been instrumental is growing the team and their initiatives.

Affiliated Researcher

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​Annu is a PMRF-funded PhD researcher at IIT Hyderabad specializing in 5G-enabled vehicular communications, exploring V2X technologies, resource allocation in 5G-VCN, MAC-layer signaling, and NOMA-based schemes. Expert in Python (TensorFlow, PyTorch), MATLAB, HFSS and CST, Annu is a BTech gold medalist who has presented at international conferences including ANTS and ITU Kaleidoscope and participated in Google Research Week.

Affiliated Researcher

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Asma specializes in AI, software development, and technical coaching, building human-centered solutions for healthcare. As GDG Setif lead, she organizes events and workshops across the MENA region. Her work focuses on integrating AI for early disease detection, clinical decision-making, and multi-cancer screening, collaborating with clinicians and researchers to ensure transparent, explainable technology aligned with medical needs.

Affiliated Researcher

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Chinalu holds a PhD, MSc, and BSc in Computing with over 15 years of academic and industry experience. She is a Certified Data Scientist and Oracle professional (SQL, OCA, OCP). Her research explores Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Digital Innovations for Security, and AI for Development applications.

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Affiliated Researcher
 

Jennifer is an interdisciplinary research scientist in Civil Engineering, Public Health, and Data Science. Her doctoral work at Texas A&M University examined disaster response and social vulnerability using computational modeling and social sensing to understand how diverse populations experience critical infrastructure disruptions during crises. She works to make digital experiences more human-centric and grounded in real-life experiences.

Co-Founder Women in AI

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Hanan works as Assistant Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi. Her research activities and interests span the areas of Human-Robot Interaction, automatic understanding of human behavior, social signal processing and affective computing.