Dr Eric Opoku Osei is a Lecturer in Computer Science at KNUST, Ghana, working under the REAL framework: Responsible AI, Educational Technology Adoption and Security, and Learning Analytics.

His research spans three areas. Responsible AI covers the ethics of AI adoption in education: transparency, fairness, bias, privacy, and accountability in how intelligent systems are designed for African learners. EdTech centres on technology adoption analytics across Learning Management Systems (LMS) and mobile learning platforms, and on Security Education, Training and Awareness (SETA), a behavioural, human-centred approach to cybersecurity in low digital-literacy contexts, with findings intended to inform how security engineers redesign protocols for the education sector. Learning Analytics applies machine learning and explainable AI to educational data to detect learning difficulties early, flag dropout risk, and predict student success. Published work appears in Education and Information Technologies, Discover Education, Internet of Things (Elsevier), and JITE: Innovations in Practice, all grounded in Ghana and the broader African context. https://tinyurl.com/EO-OSEI 

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 research commercialisation. 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) MPhils, 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 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.