Mark Kuria

MSc Psychology, BPS Accredited GBC | Research: Explainable AI (XAI) in Human-AI Trust Calibration at Edge Hill. British Council GREAT Scholar.

Specialises in Research, Innovation, and Policy Operations. From psychological insights and regulations to compliant solutions.

6+ years of work experience across the UK, USA, and Africa inform my work in Research & Development, Inclusive Digital Designs, Responsible AI, Policy and Compliance.

I strategically combine my academic excellence, tech skills, and lived experience of disability. To bridge human behaviour science and technical progression, ensuring accessibility, bias mitigation, and human agency from initial planning.

• Expertise
• Responsible AI Ethics and Governance
• Policy Frameworks
• Digital Accessibility Standards
• AI Ethics Reviews, Auditing and Bias Mitigation
• Inclusive UX Research and Human-Factors Engineering
• Psychology-Informed Human-AI Interaction Design
• Selected Impact

Microsoft EA Garage: Led a neurodiverse team to prototype a PWD-aware ethical AI safety shield with bias auditing layers.

UNDP: Contributed to the 2025-'27 Disability Inclusion Strategy on Digital Accessibility.

Policy Leadership: Facilitated national KS 2952 ICT accessibility workshops with the Communications Authority of Kenya.

EdTech & AI Scaling: Co-developed Tumaini, a Swahili LLM mental wellness chatbot, and built a mobile AI literacy curriculum via WhatsApp to bridge a 48% digital gap.

My academic, work and lived-disability experience, inform this delivery of impactful solutions.

Open for global consulting, policy advisory, institutional research, collaborations, and audits.