Nomisha Kurian, PhD

Dr. Nomisha Kurian is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. She researches child-safe LLMs and how AI can best support children’s development and wellbeing. Her work has been featured by CNN, BBC Radio and The Guardian, and has received the University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Social Impact and the University of Cambridge Applied Research Award.

She has advised organisations such as the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children on child safety and AI, led policy briefs for the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies and co-authored reports on tackling childhood inequality and adversity for the World Bank and Plan International.

Nomisha holds a PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge. Previously, she was at Yale University as a Charles and Julia Henry Fellow, researching child rights law.

Alongside her role at Warwick, she is an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (University of Cambridge) and an Associate at the Centre for Research in Digital Education (University of Edinburgh), contributing to international networks on AI ethics, education and child protection.