Lecturer • Researcher • Scholar-Innovator • Research Commercialisation • Responsible AI & Public Impact
Dr. Iniakpokeikiye Peter Thompson
I am a lecturer, researcher and technology innovator working at the intersection of computing research, persuasive computing, natural language generation (NLG), responsible AI, research commercialisation and societal impact. I build and evaluate practical digital systems, translate promising research into products and ventures, develop students and emerging innovators, and advance evidence-based responsible citizenship and ethical leadership in Nigeria and beyond.
Focus areas
A connected practice spanning rigorous inquiry, practical adoption, people development and public value.
Computing and AI research addressing real problems, with particular strength in culturally attuned AI, persuasive computing, mobile sensing and low-resource contexts.
Learn moreA disciplined pipeline for moving research, prototypes and student work toward usable products, institutional deployment, licensing and sustainable ventures.
Learn moreTeaching, mentoring and supervising students and early-career researchers to move from code and academic projects to evidence, prototypes and impact.
Learn moreEvidence-based civic education that promotes lawful conduct, integrity, public accountability, service and leadership for the common good.
Learn moreResearch-to-impact method
A disciplined path helps promising work move from evidence to responsible adoption and back into new research.
The goal is not to commercialise every research output. The goal is to identify the work with genuine user, institutional or market value and create a responsible pathway from evidence to adoption.
Flagship evidence
Safe Drive Africa is a culturally attuned, AI-enabled road-safety research programme that combines smartphone telematics, machine learning, natural language generation and behaviour-change theory for Nigerian and comparable low-resource contexts. The completed evaluation provides a strong evidence base for continuing work on institutional adoption, fleet deployment and wider African adaptation.
Completed research evaluation; these findings are not a guarantee of outcomes in new deployments. Evidence summary reviewed September 2026.
802
Trips collected
54
Drivers evaluated
19.4%
Reduction in unsafe behaviours per kilometre
79.6%
Drivers who improved
0.855
Alcohol-detection AUC
Offline-first
Designed for constrained connectivity
Portfolio
Selected programmes show how research questions can lead to tested systems, public value and enterprise opportunities.
Completed road-safety research moving toward institutional and fleet adoption.
Learn moreA project-validation and accountability concept connecting technology, public administration and evidence.
Learn moreHuman-centred mobile development experience in cancer aftercare and context-aware patient interaction.
Learn moreA supervision programme connecting student research to larger research and prototype programmes.
Learn moreEnhancing Road Safety and Security in West Africa through AI Telematics
Transitioning a validated smartphone-based telematics prototype into a widely adopted safety tool for fleet operations in West and Central Africa.
Computing knowledge, practical problem-solving, responsible innovation and entrepreneurship: helping students move from code to evidence and impact.
Explore teaching and supervisionThrough the Office of the Nigerian Citizen, I am developing a non-partisan, evidence-based civic education platform focused on rights, responsibilities, lawful conduct, integrity, accountability and leadership for the common good.
Explore public impactIdeas in practice
Research-to-market thinking, responsible AI, African digital innovation and lessons from teaching and public life.
Explore Safe Drive Africa's research on road safety with smartphone telematics and machine learning. Discover pilot programs and adoption strategies today!
Read InsightA prototype direction for public-project information, with evidence quality and accountable interpretation at its centre.
Read InsightA practical pathway from an assessed academic artefact to a carefully validated product opportunity.
Read InsightTalks and conversations on responsible AI, innovation, research translation and public impact.
Collaboration
Discuss research commercialisation, institutional training, responsible AI, technology advisory, pilot partnerships or civic education.
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