P.I. — Habeeb Kolade, ResearchRound 

Through the AIAI seed grant, the Lune AI.Humanities.SocialSciences Fellowship will provide Nigerian graduate and postgraduate students in humanities and social sciences with an exploration of artificial intelligence through assignments, research projects, and coursework in NLP, machine learning, creative computing, learning technologies, and AI ethics. The program will offer remote delivery and data stipends. Fellows, through the support of expert facilitators and personalized mentors, will examine the development, implementation, social implications, and real-world impacts of AI technologies to develop interdisciplinary approaches and critiques for region-specific research, methodologies, and tools in low-resource graduate education settings focusing on intersections between AI and linguistics, literary and creative arts, communication and digital media, public interest research, education, community engagement, and legal frameworks. The fellowship aims to establish a post-fellowship collaborative network of Nigerian graduate students conducting technology-focused humanities and social sciences research.

ResearchRound is an independent, nonprofit research institute collaborating with various stakeholders to strengthen the capacity for world-class research in lower-resource settings. We are organising and catalysing the research and innovation community for an inclusive and better future.