Sarah Kiden
Research Fellow (Trustworthy AI) at University of Southampton
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSarah Kiden is a Research Fellow in Trustworthy AI with eight years' experience working at the intersection of communities, design and technology policy, currently affiliated with the University of Southampton and the Citizen-Centric AI Systems project. She specialises in co-designing explainable, ethical and governable AI and IoT systems with non-expert users, blending ethnographic methods, workshops and prototyping to surface human-centred requirements. Her background spans academia, policy and capacity building—from Marie Curie fellowships and a PhD in Communication Design to hands-on network engineering and training programs across Africa. She has a strong public-interest orientation evidenced by long-term volunteering and contractor work with ICANN and Mozilla, where she translated community needs into governance and capacity initiatives. Known for turning community skills into practical design inputs, she bridges technical detail and policy impact to make emerging technologies more trustworthy and accessible.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Information Systems, Community Information Systems, Distinction, Master of Science in Information Systems, Community Information Systems, Distinction at Uganda Martyrs UniversityProduct Management Certificate, Product Management, Product Management Certificate, Product Management at Product SchoolBachelor of Science in Information Technology, First Class Hons, Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, First Class Hons at Uganda Christian UniversityVisiting Graduate, Visiting Graduate at Saint Mary's UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Communication Design (Design of Trusted Things), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Communication Design (Design of Trusted Things) at Northumbria University
English, french (a2.1), Kiswahili
Github Skills (12)
measurements9
broadband9
science7
mozilla7
open-science7
internet7
sprint4
java3
fluid1
computational-fluid-dynamics1
hydrodynamics1
load-balancing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sktomor/OpenDoTT-communities
Jul 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:157 commits, 1 PR, 145 pushes in 2 years 4 months
MozillaFoundation/mozfellows-2017
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
go-to place for materials, contributions, and worklogs for the 2017 Mozilla Fellows (Media, Science, Open Web)
Contributions:31 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 2 months
placescienceworklogsopen-sciencemozilla
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