Dr Eric Opoku Osei is a Lecturer in Computer Science at KNUST, Ghana, and an Educational Technology Consultant. His work operates at the convergence of computers, education and security: Educational Technology | AI Ethics | Learning Analytics | Behavioral Cybersecurity with machine learning as the focal method. His research spans four areas:

Educational Technology — adoption analytics across Learning Management Systems and mobile learning platforms in African higher education contexts.

AI Ethics — Bias, Accountability, Privacy and Transparency (BAPT) in the design and implementation of generative AI or intelligent systems for the education sector.

Learning Analytics — Machine Learning and Explainable AI methods applied to educational data, to detect learning difficulties early, flag dropout risk, and predict student success.

Behavioural Cybersecurity — Security Analytics, Education, Training and Awareness (SETA): a human-centred approach to cybersecurity in low-digital-literacy contexts, with findings feeding into how cybersecurity engineers redesign and implement behavioural protocols to reduce human error in attacks. His work appears in EdTech journals such as Education and Information Technologies, as well as in journals on Behavioural cybersecurity. 

He translates research into policy and practice. As Lead Consultant and Author, he developed four UNESCO-commissioned teacher professional development manuals for Ghana's Ministry of Education on ICT competency. He has produced TVET policy briefs with Plan International Ghana, secured funding as Principal Investigator from UNESCO Ghana, and served as Co-Investigator on projects including KReF and other funding agencies. He has contributed to three UNESCO consultancies and represented Ghana at a UNESCO co-creation workshop in Dakar. He reviews for Information Processing and Management (Elsevier).

For three years, he served as Director of Engineering Innovation and Technology Transfer at KNUST's Technology Consultancy Centre (TCC-CIMET), a UNESCO Category II Centre, leading digital transformation and the commercialisation of research. He now sits on KNUST's Intellectual Property and Research Commercialisation Advisory Board, established under the university's strategic plan as it pursues its shift from excellence to eminence as Africa's foremost science and technology institution.

He has supervised four (4) PhD, six (6) MPhil students, and over thirty (30) MSc and undergraduate students to completion, and teaches cloud architecture and security, IT project management, computing ethics, and information systems at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His conviction: computer science earns its value when it addresses problems that matter to the African development agenda, as framed by the African Union and SDGs 4 and 9. 

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