Chaudhary Hamza Riaz is a law graduate from Ulster University (LLB Law with Politics and International Studies), where he was awarded both the EDGE Excel Student of the Year and the Convocation Undergraduate Student of the Year 2025. He is a member of Lincoln’s Inn and is pursuing the Bar Practice Course (BPC) with an LLM at the University of Law, aiming to qualify as a barrister in England and Wales. With a commitment to widening access to justice, he founded AURA Law, an AI-powered legal assistant designed to support solicitors and clients by reducing cost barriers and improving legal information accessibility. His research focuses on Human Rights, Refugee Law, Transitional Justice, and the Governance of AI in Legal Technology. He has published on the risks of algorithmic bias to fair trial rights and is currently developing comparative research on AI regulation across the EU, UK, US, and China.

Dr Usman Hadi received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Bologna, Italy. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Aalborg University, Denmark, in close collaboration with Nokia. He was a Visiting Researcher with ESIEE Paris, France, and Nokia Bell Laboratories. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the School of Engineering, Ulster University, Belfast, U.K. He has authored more than 70 journal articles and transactions. As a Principal Investigator, he has received EPSRC DTNET+, Innovate U.K., British Council Going Global Partnerships, Garfield Weston Trust, R&I funds and EPSRC, DFE, and ISPF research grants as a Co-Investigator. His research interests include machine learning for engineering applications, unmanned aerial vehicles, fiber wireless communication, microwave photonics, and devices for telecommunications. He has been included in top 2% of researchers for consecutive three years since 2021.