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Judith Uchidiuno

Also known as Judith Odili Uchidiuno

Judith Uchidiuno is a human-computer interaction researcher who designs learning technology and AI curricula for students in low-income and underserved communities. A Nigerian native, she studied computer science at Lincoln University and completed a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon in 2020, advised by Amy Ogan and Ken Koedinger. After a postdoctoral position at Carnegie Mellon, she joined Georgia Tech in 2023 and started the Play and Learn Lab, whose team co-designed a middle school AI curriculum for the AI4GA program; by May 2024, more than 1,500 students had learned AI through that work. In 2025, she gave a keynote at the SITE conference on co-designing AI instructional materials with students and teachers. She is an assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing and directs the Play and Learn Lab.

Timeline

  1. By 2020

    A Carnegie Mellon HCI PhD

    A Nigerian native, she earns a bachelor's degree in computer science at Lincoln University just outside Philadelphia. She completes a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon's HCI Institute in 2020, advised by Amy Ogan and Ken Koedinger. Her research there contributes to a tablet-based learning system that over 500 students in rural Tanzania use to supplement formal education.

  2. By 2023

    Postdoc at the Robotics Academy

    After her 2020 PhD, she works as a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Academy until Georgia Tech hires her in 2023. At Carnegie Mellon she begins working on AI4K12 under lead investigator Dave Touretzky, a National Science Foundation-funded effort to develop national K-12 guidelines for AI education.

  3. 2023

    Assistant professor at Georgia Tech

    She begins as an assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing in 2023. There she starts the Play and Learn Lab, hires two research assistants devoted to AI4GA, and sets out to work with informal learning centers in urban Atlanta to widen access to computer science education.

  4. May 2024

    The AI4GA middle school curriculum

    Her team works with more than a dozen Atlanta-based schools to develop an AI curriculum for Artificial Intelligence for Georgia (AI4GA), and by May 2024 over 1,500 students have learned AI through the work over three years. Through Georgia Tech's BridgeUP STEM Program, she works with high school students to design video games that demonstrate their knowledge of AI. The curriculum and teacher training are publicly available.

  5. 2025

    AI co-design papers and a keynote

    In 2025, she coauthors "From Lecture Hall to Homeroom: Co-Designing an AI Elective with Middle School CS Teachers" for the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education and "Escape or D13: Understanding Youth Perspectives of AI through Educational Game Co-design" for the CHI conference. She also gives the SITE 2025 keynote "Improving the Efficacy of AI Instructional Materials via Co-Design with Students and Instructors", which draws on AI games and materials co-designed with teachers and students and implemented across 9 diverse schools in the US.

  6. July 2025

    Training teachers in four states

    By July 2025, eighty teachers from four states have completed intensive training in teaching AI to middle schoolers through AI4GA, a program now supported by Google. The curriculum they learn was co-designed with educators and faculty, including her.

  7. As of October 2026

    Directing the Play and Learn Lab

    She is an assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing and directs the Play and Learn Lab. Her projects include co-designing AI literacy games with high school students, building an AI curriculum with middle school CS teachers across multiple U.S. states, and developing CS professional development and curriculum used by more than 600 teachers across West Africa. The National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, Google and NCWIT support her research.

Career

  1. Since 2023Georgia Institute of TechnologyAssistant professor, Founder
  2. 2020–2023Carnegie Mellon UniversityPostdoctoral researcher

Education

  1. 2020Carnegie Mellon UniversityPhD
  2. Lincoln UniversityBachelor's degree

From the biography.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  3. People shaping AI work at a median of 3 organizations over a career: 3 for university starters and institute and lab starters, versus 2 for company startersIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. Across 6,853 people shaping AI with a dated work role, we estimate a median of 3 parent organizations over a career (mean 3.6), comparing role groups, starting sectors and starting decades from the 1950s to 2020–2026.
  4. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorateIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorate. Across 2,116 people with both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate recorded, we trace which undergraduate schools feed which doctoral programs, how often students stay at the same school, and how paths differ by birth-country region.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Judith Uchidiuno | School of Interactive Computing ic.gatech.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. New Faculty Member Seeks to Expand Computer Science in Urban Communities | College of Computing cc.gatech.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. AI4GA Lays Groundwork for NSF-funded Nationwide K-12 AI Curriculum | College of Computing cc.gatech.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. jiou3 | College of Computing cc.gatech.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Speakers for SITE 2025 - SITE site.aace.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Teachers Across Multiple States Prepare to Bring AI Lessons into the Classroom | Research News Center research.gatech.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Judith Odili Uchidiuno – Human Computer Interaction ~ Education Technologies Design judithu.com. Checked 21 October 2026.