Huma joined Coventry University in June 2014 from Reading University where she gained her PhD in 'Deception-detection and machine intelligence in Practical Turing tests'. She worked on the EU FP7 funded 'RoboLaw' project (http://www.robolaw.eu/). She directed the science and innovation (Co-Investigator) on the EU Horizon2020 research and innovation project CSI-COP. Coventry University led the international nine-partner CSI-COP team winning 'Best Innovative Privacy Project' in the inaugural PICCASO Privacy awards in December 2022. CSI-COP applied a citizen science approach investigating tracking-by-default and GDPR compliance in websites and smart phone apps . More information on the EU Horizon2020 project can be found here:  https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/873169 

CSI-COP's privacy-by-design website is here: https://csi-cop.eu/

Her recent research-related activities supported by the Sprite+ project (UKRI funded) are:

-AI > Generative AI: Do you Trust it? | SPRITE+ Hub funded event celebrating 75^th anniversary year of Alan Turing’s ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ published in October 1950

-Best Practices for Trust in the Use of Generative AI Tools (prompt-summary, text-to-video, text-to-image) | SPRITE+ Hub

Latest publications include:

• Lead author Force majeure impact on citizen science: ... | Open Research Europe (2025) peer-reviewed paper on CSI-COP citizen science project investigating GDPR compliance in websites and apps.
• Co-author, 2023 peer-reviewed article 'Modeling intrinsic factors of inclusive engagement in citizen science: insights from the participants' survey analysis of CSI-COP' in PLOS ONE. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294575
• Lead author 2023 chapter 'Not Born of Woman: Gendered Robots' co-authored with Fred Roberts, creator of  Elbot the robot (chatbot). The chapter is featured in Professor Jordi Vallverdu's edited book 'Gender in AI and Robotics: The Challenges from an Interdisciplinary Perspective', published by Springer Nature, 2023

Huma successfully supervised one doctoral candidate on the PhD by publication route:

• Matthew S. Tart  Thesis title: 'Forensic Inference from Telecommunication Records' - completed 2023.

Huma is listed in the Open Directory of Women in AI Ethics. She is co-author of 'Turing's Imitation Game: Conversations with the Unknown', published by Cambridge University Press in September 2016: http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2016/10/turings-imitation-game-a-qa-with-co-author-huma-shah/

The impact of Huma’s research is illustrated through her profile on Academia.edu : she is within the top 5% with over 28,000 view/reads/downloads of her research articles.

She is a Member of the European Platform for Women Scientists (EPWS), the EU AI Alliance, and the CLAIRE network of AI labs. She organised two Loebner Prizes for Artificial Intelligence (2006 at UCL; 2008 at Reading University). She is a member of the Alan Turing Centenary Advisory Committee and was active in raising awareness of Turing’s work for centenary events. She coorganised Turing100in2012 at Bletchley Park which gained the London2012 Inspire Mark for Education. She coordinated the Turing2014 experiment at The Royal Society London, June 2014 in which 1/3rd of judges did not correctly classify Eugene Goostman machine.

Invited participation include:

• Invited Expert speaker on AI 1st November 2025 in Aston University's Knowledge cafe
• ECPP 2024 Opening Panel in the 2024 conference on Postitive Pscyhology. 10 July 2024: 

  AI and Positive Psychology: Enhancing Wellbeing through Technology?

• UCL 'Citizen Science: Perspective from an EU funded project on GDPR compliance, 8 March 2024. Link to slides on LinkedIn.
• CEPIS 'Ethics of Generative AI' delivered online 23 June 2023: Link to LinkedIn post
• BCS Karen Spärck Jones lecture 2023, delivered in London 5 June 2023: Link to event on YouTube
• Open Science, delivered in Bar Ilan University Open Science event, 28 February 2023, Ramat Gan, Israel
• Is Online Privacy a Privilege? delivered to BCS Coventry, 15 February 2023: https://coventry.bcs.org/csi-cop-your-right-to-privacy-online/
• AI Safeguards: Preserving your Right to Privacy Online. ASIS&T, 30 November 2022: https://www.asist.org/africa-chapter-ai-safeguards-preserving-your-right-to-privacy-online/
• GDPR and Healthcare apps.  Brocher Foundation, 13 October 2021: https://www.brocher.ch/en/events/417/health-citizen-science-dilemmas-under-the-gdpr
• Human Rights in the Age of Google Cookies. Invited talk to Crowd Justice, July 1, 2020
• Complying with the general data protection regulation (GDPR): how hard is it to design privacy-by-default? Invited e-talk to Office of National Statistics, Wales, June 25, 2020
• Are non-diverse AI research and development teams risking bias in innovated algorithms and artefacts? AI4EU February, 5, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM9La4df3k0
• International talks in the 2nd Latin American 'Brain and Mind Evolution' Symposium, August 27- September 3, 2019, Montevideo, Uruguay: http://www.iibce.edu.uy/ 
• How to involve Citizen Scientists to develop Ethical AI for Knowledge Exchange. CERN/UNIGE workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Exchange, University of Geneva, 21 June 2019. https://indico.cern.ch/event/786048/timetable/#20190621.detailed
• AI Gems in Historical Text. 13 February 2019. Invited talk in Bar-Ilan workshop on technological tools for manuscript research. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel: https://is.biu.ac.il/en/album/3656
• Trust in AI, Social Robots and Conversational Agents. 22 November, 2018. Keynote at University of Amsterdam, RPA Communication Lecture Series: http://www.digicomlab.eu/events/current-events/special-session-trust-in-ai-social-robots-and-conversational-agents-with-dr-huma-shah/
• Turing's Substantive vs. Simulated Intelligence: can a machine answer any question?' 15-16 November 2018. Keynote in 'Rethinking, Reworking and Revolutionising the Turing test' interdisciplinary conference, University of Edinburgh: https://turingtest2018.wordpress.com/
• 'Can AI buttress safety & security?' 20 June 2018 in CityForum/IFSEC International 2018, ExCel London: https://www.cityforum.co.uk/event/ifsec-international-2018/
• In EEMA 2018 Conference, Microsoft London, 13-14 June: 'Maximising Digital Transformation'  https://annualconference.eema.org/programme/speakers/
• The Spreading of Artificial Intelligence and its Control over Individuals, University of Padova, Italy, December 18, 2017: https://www.academia.edu/35577487/Will_AI_Benefit_Us
• 4th Global AI Assistant Summit, London, September 22nd: https://www.re-work.co/events/ai-assistant-summit-london-2017
• In Latin America's 'Brain and Mind Evolution' Symposium, 5-12 September 2017, Montevideo, Uruguay: http://www.iibce.edu.uy/UNIC/index.html
• In Skolkovo AI conference in Russia, November 2016

Other activities include:

• Invited panellist in 'Digital Action Ethics' UCL's HEIDI project, 29 November 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjRipCKDuPY
• Invited Speaker 'International Women's Day 2019', Stanmore College, Middlesex
• Participating in 'Feminism and Tech Day', at the Feminist Library in London, SE1 on November 25, 2017: http://feministlibrary.co.uk/feminism-and-tech-day/
• STEM Ambassador duties at  DSEI 'People & Skills Day' - ExCel centre, London, 15/09/17

Media engagement:

IEEE Spectrum contribution to article 'Is the Turing test dead?' December 2023 issue: https://spectrum.ieee.org/turing-test

WBUR radio Boston-US podcast: Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part VI: The quest to build machines like us. 16 December 2022: https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2022/12/16/turing-test-machines-bots-ai

FT interview for November 2022 article by Anjana Ahuja 'A Machiavellian machine raises ethical questions about AI': https://rb.gy/2swma

Guardian podcast: Human or machine error? On January 13, 2018 in Hawaii a text message was sent to the populace and visitors regarding a ballistic missile, it was a false alert: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2018/feb/09/hawaii-false-emergency-alert-ballistic-missile-chips-with-everything-podcast

Artificial Intelligence and Trust. AI Ethics. Data protection and online privacy. Social Robotics. Digital trust. Digital Identity. Turing test. Deception-detection. Natural language understanding. Voice-activated devices. Chatbots. Conversational commerce. Human and machine intelligence. Human-computer interaction. Social, legal and ethical issues in STEM. Gender in STEM.