Human-Centered AI
Conversational agents, LLM-supported research methods, and systems designed around human judgment.
Postdoctoral Fellow · Saarland University
I am a postdoctoral fellow at Saarland University, advised by Prof. Ingmar Weber. I work at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, ICTD, and Thoughtful AI.
I am also a KCRC Fellow at the Kigali Collaborative Research Centre, a research community based at Carnegie Mellon University Africa in Kigali that helps researchers build practical solutions for Africa.
About
I design and study practical, low-cost AI systems that support learning, reflection, and civic participation. My work is particularly concerned with settings where infrastructure, connectivity, and resources shape what useful technology can look like.
I completed my PhD in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Amy Ogan and Prof. Tim Brown. My dissertation evaluated low-cost, chat-based teacher learning systems that supported 400+ teachers and 10,000+ students in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Read the thesis draft.
Research
Conversational agents, LLM-supported research methods, and systems designed around human judgment.
Aspirations, asset-based design, and locally meaningful innovation in low-infrastructure contexts.
Teacher professional development, learning communities, and access to health information.
Publications
For the complete, current publication record and citation counts, visit Google Scholar or DBLP. Selected metadata verified with indexed/publisher records in May 2026.
Browse all paper pages · Download BibTeXProceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 6203-6225.
@inproceedings{behmanush2026safe,
title = {Designing Safe and Accountable GenAI as a Learning Companion with Women Banned from Formal Education},
author = {Behmanush, Hamayoon and Akhtari, Freshta and Weber, Ingmar and Cannanure, Vikram Kamath},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency},
pages = {6203--6225},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ACM},
doi = {10.1145/3805689.3806466}
}
American Educational Research Journal.
@article{wolf2026impacts,
title = {Impacts of Targeted Instruction with Mobile-Based Support on Teachers and Students in Rural Côte d’Ivoire},
author = {Wolf, Sharon and Ogan, Amy and Jasińska, Kaja K. and Kembou, Samuel and Cannanure, Vikram Kamath and Whitehead, Hannah and Corbett, Julianna and Tanoh, Fabrice and Wortsman, Brooke and Lim, Joshua and Zhao, Hui and Kumar, Anahita},
journal = {American Educational Research Journal},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.3102/00028312261430679}
}
Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2026), Communications in Computer and Information Science, 249-261.
@inproceedings{cannanure2026whatsapp,
title = {Teacher Professional Development on WhatsApp and LLMs: Early Lessons from Cameroon},
author = {Cannanure, Vikram Kamath and Yinkfu, Bruno and Bryan, Douglas and Amin, Mati and Weber, Ingmar},
booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2026)},
series = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
pages = {249--261},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-29791-4_18}
}
Highlighted Work
Seven representative publications spanning human-centered AI, education, and technology for development.
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 6203-6225.
@inproceedings{behmanush2026safe,
title = {Designing Safe and Accountable GenAI as a Learning Companion with Women Banned from Formal Education},
author = {Behmanush, Hamayoon and Akhtari, Freshta and Weber, Ingmar and Cannanure, Vikram Kamath},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency},
pages = {6203--6225},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ACM},
doi = {10.1145/3805689.3806466}
}
American Educational Research Journal.
@article{wolf2026impacts,
title = {Impacts of Targeted Instruction with Mobile-Based Support on Teachers and Students in Rural Côte d’Ivoire},
author = {Wolf, Sharon and Ogan, Amy and Jasińska, Kaja K. and Kembou, Samuel and Cannanure, Vikram Kamath and Whitehead, Hannah and Corbett, Julianna and Tanoh, Fabrice and Wortsman, Brooke and Lim, Joshua and Zhao, Hui and Kumar, Anahita},
journal = {American Educational Research Journal},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.3102/00028312261430679}
}
Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2026), Communications in Computer and Information Science, 249-261.
@inproceedings{cannanure2026whatsapp,
title = {Teacher Professional Development on WhatsApp and LLMs: Early Lessons from Cameroon},
author = {Cannanure, Vikram Kamath and Yinkfu, Bruno and Bryan, Douglas and Amin, Mati and Weber, Ingmar},
booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2026)},
series = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
pages = {249--261},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-29791-4_18}
}
ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 3(4), 1-23.
@article{cannanure2025designbased,
title = {A Design-Based Research Approach to Bridge Teacher Aspirations and Goal-Setting},
author = {Cannanure, Vikram Kamath and Ngoon, Tricia J. and Wolf, Sharon and Jasińska, Kaja K. and Brown, Tim and Ogan, Amy},
journal = {ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies},
volume = {3},
number = {4},
pages = {1--23},
year = {2025},
doi = {10.1145/3736648}
}
ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 3(3), Article 20, 1-23.
@article{verma2025exploring,
title = {Exploring AI in Education: Child-Computer Interaction in the Global South},
author = {Verma, Riti and Weber, Ingmar and Cannanure, Vikram Kamath},
journal = {ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies},
volume = {3},
number = {3},
articleno = {20},
year = {2025},
doi = {10.1145/3736645}
}
Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI), Article 70, 1-23.
@inproceedings{adhikari2025exploring,
title = {Exploring LLMs for Automated Generation and Adaptation of Questionnaires},
author = {Adhikari, Divya Mani and Hartland, Alexander and Weber, Ingmar and Cannanure, Vikram Kamath},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces},
year = {2025},
articleno = {70},
doi = {10.1145/3719160.3736606}
}
Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI).
@inproceedings{zhu2025learn,
title = {Learn, Explore and Reflect by Chatting: Understanding the Value of an LLM-Based Voting Advice Application Chatbot},
author = {Zhu, Jianlong and Kempermann, Manon and Cannanure, Vikram Kamath and Hartland, Alexander and Navarrete, Rosa M. and Carteny, Giuseppe and Braun, Daniela and Weber, Ingmar},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces},
year = {2025},
doi = {10.1145/3719160.3736611}
}
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Software & Making
I have built systems for web, Android, desktop, iOS, and hardware. Selected projects include scalable Flask APIs serving 4M+ users, a WebGL 3D viewer, Learn Kannada with 10K+ downloads, and Jedi Mouse, a gesture and EEG cursor control project.
Explore Akka, a Kannada-supported alphabet learning tool.
Swimming
I am a long-distance swimmer and have raised approximately $25,000 for social causes in India. Selected swims include Elephanta Island to Gateway of India, Swim Miami in 2016 and 2021, and Lake Muhazi in Rwanda.
Read a swimming story on my blog.