“I ask how things work, and what they cost the people who use them.”
I research sustainable AI, energy-aware computing, and human-centred technology. I also write Afrofuturist fiction about memory, history, and who gets to control the past.
Ziga Aadum is a writer and interdisciplinary researcher with one question running through everything she makes: how do things work, and what do they mean for the people who use them?
Her research interests include how AI can run on less energy, how intelligent systems can support real-world infrastructure, and how technology can be designed around human needs. On the writing side, she is the author of a completed ten-story Afrofuturist collection, stories of pirate queens and buried libraries, of mines that remember and names that refuse to be erased, all asking who gets to control the story of a people.
She is drawn to the same frontier from two directions: building the future, and imagining who it is for.
Research at the intersection of computation, infrastructure, and care. Project pages are designed to grow with methods, findings, and research logs.
What does it actually cost to ask an AI a question? Benchmarking compressed language models on simulated edge hardware to explore intelligence with less energy.
Research in progressExplore project ↗Hybrid LSTM-Transformer forecasting trained on open energy datasets, helping microgrids anticipate demand as renewable supply fluctuates.
Research in progressExplore project ↗Priority-based routing in congested urban IoT environments, exploring how medical data can remain reliable when milliseconds matter.
Research in progressExplore project ↗
Approach: Hybrid LSTM-Transformer models. Data: NREL Open Energy Data and Kaggle smart-grid datasets. Detailed findings will be published when validated.
Approach: Analyze priority-based routing protocols under congestion. Tool: NS-3 network simulator. Detailed findings will be published when validated.
Follow project setup, obstacles, experiments, and findings in the journal as work develops.
Read research updates ↗A completed ten-story Afrofuturist collection, roughly 64,000 words. Ten speculative worlds. One enduring question: who controls the story of a people?
“The forgotten do not stay forgotten forever.”
Across a reimagined Africa, where AI speaks in proverbs and ruins whisper forgotten truths, ten bold stories reclaim the erased and reframe the past as both warning and weapon.
From the techno-archives of Neo-Accra to pirate queens of the Red Sea, from the cobalt heart of Katanga to floating kingdoms in the sky, this collection explores memory, identity, and the cost of deciding whose history survives.
Working title
Ten Stories from the African Future and Past Remembered
STORY 01A machine resurrects buried history, until a global corporation moves to rewrite it.
STORY 02Archaeology becomes a war of truth when the fall of Benin refuses to stay in the past.
STORY 03A mother and daughter carry ancestral songs across shattered timelines.
STORY 04Beneath the cobalt, the earth itself remembers, and chooses.
STORY 05A sound architect discovers the system she built is being used to erase a people.
STORY 06As Earth dies, a people carry the memory of home across the vacuum of space.
STORY 07When machines forget mercy, one woman refuses to let the truth be deleted.
STORY 08The war that never happened, and the last great riders history tried to erase.
STORY 09A song beyond memory, from before the stars were numbered.
STORY 10A vault opens beneath an ancient church, and the absences inside it speak.
She called him Ezenna. Not Eze, the way his father said it, short, proud, a name that stood at attention. She used all of it. Every syllable. As though his full name were a small ceremony she performed each time she needed him near. He was nine years old the last time he heard her say it.
Ziga H. Aadum’s children’s book celebrates Africa’s history, cultures, and legends through stories of courageous queens, wise kings, and remarkable children. The Royal Readers Project extends that spirit through a “Buy One, Gift One” mission: helping children see themselves as royalty by gifting books to schools, libraries, and communities.
Visit The Royal Readers Project ↗ Book details ↗Research logs, essays, creative process, and updates. New posts can be published from the WordPress dashboard without editing code.
Some days begin with questions, others with ideas that refuse to stay quiet. Somewhere between science, stories, creativity and the occasional happy accident, there is always…
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Email: fijehrose@gmail.com