Prof. Jerry John Kponyo is the Dean of the Quality Assurance and Planning Office of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) under the Vice-Chancellor’s Office. Previously, he was Dean of the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at KNUST. Before assuming the role of Dean, he served as the Head of the Electrical Engineering Department.

He is the Project Lead of the KNUST Engineering Education Project (KEEP), a 5.5 million Dollar Africa Center of Excellence Impact project sponsored by the World Bank with a focus on Digital Development and Energy, and the Co-Founder of the Responsible AI Network (RAIN) Africa, a collaborative effort between KNUST and TUM Germany. Between 2016 and 2019 he was a visiting Professor at ESIGELEC, France on a staff mobility programme where he taught postgraduate courses in Business Intelligence and conducted research with staff of ESIGELEC. He currently leads the Emerging Networks and Technologies Research Laboratory at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, KNUST which focuses on digital development technologies research.

Prof. Kponyo is the PI and Scientific Director of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Lab sponsored by IDRC and GIZ and coordinator of the West Africa Sustainable Engineering Network for Development (WASEND). He is also the PI for the Partner-Afrika project funded by BMZ.

He has done extensive research in IoT, intelligent systems, and AI and has over 70 published articles in refereed Journals and Conference proceedings and he is a member of the Ghana Institution of Engineers.