Liz Ankrah
Post-doc Research Scientist
About
Liz Ankrah is a Research Scientist at Microsoft Research Lab – Africa Nairobi, Kenya. Here, she co-leads HCI research on culture and AI in the Global South (Project Gecko), and understanding Human-Centered Evaluation in the AI era for low data spaces and communities in the Global South.
She takes a people-centric, theory-driven, and empirical approach to understanding how knowledge flows through social and technological systems, and to designing technologies that respect and amplify community expertise. Her work is centered around the following 3 pillars, (1) Knowledge Systems & Social Infrastructure, (2) Culture, language and AI, and (3) Community Centered design and evaluation.
She received her PhD from the Universtity of California Irvine, where she was advised by Gillian R. Hayes. Her dissertation work was about on Designing for Transitions: Supporting the Informational Needs of Youth Cancer Survivors.