[1][2][3] Victoria Chibuogu Nneji was born in Eko, Nigeria; at age 5 she and her family immigrated to the United States and was raised in Durham, North Carolina.
[5] She has a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Columbia University, being one of the first in her family to pursue post-secondary education, and studying under Adam Sobel.
[7] The research paper, Exploring Concepts of Operations for On-Demand Passenger Air Transportation (2017), by co-authors Nneji, Alexander Stimpson, and Mary Cummings from Duke University, and Kenneth H. Goodrich, from NASA Langley Research Center determined that the technology in order to create "on-demand passenger air travel" and related regulatory framework will take more than a decade to create.
The research paper, Tell Me More: Designing HRI to Encourage More Trust, Disclosure, and Companionship (2016), by co-authors Nikolas Martelaro, Wendy Ju, and Pamela Hinds, found that vulnerability and expressivity may improve peoples' relationships with robots.
In this study, Nneji and her team engaged high school students with robots with low/high vulnerability and low/high expressivity in a learning activity.