“Follow your passion fearlessly”
- How Dr. Rimma Dzhusupova, AI4Her Earth Award Finalist, is driving real-world sustainability through AI
Dr. Rimma Dzhusupova is an Industrial AI and AI compliance expert with over 16 years of industrial experience across engineering, AI, and enterprise IT. Her work has supported large energy-transition and green hydrogen projects, where AI helped reduce engineering effort and optimise resource usage in complex infrastructure. For more than half of her career, she has worked in roles influencing technical and strategic decisions, with the last seven years focused on AI leadership in large, complex industrial environments where safety, sustainability, and reliability truly matter. And now, Rimma has been shortlisted for the AI4Her Earth Award, which honors women using AI for sustainability, climate resilience, and biodiversity protection.
Written by Berna Syuleymanoglu
Born in Kazakhstan, Rimma studied engineering and technology in Russia and Finland before continuing her research career in the Netherlands. She began her professional path as an electrical engineer and gradually moved into roles where she led and influenced large-scale industrial initiatives.
This journey shaped her understanding of how AI must function in the real world: at scale, in safety-critical environments, and within tightly regulated industrial contexts.
Rimma is also a founder of ExplorAI, which she established with the ambition to operate as an independent EU AI Act certification body, focusing on high-risk AI in critical infrastructure and essential services.
Through ExplorAI, she works to contribute to the power of AI being used responsibly and for people’s good, translating regulatory requirements into approaches that industry can realistically apply in practice.
Scaling AI Innovation for Real-World Sustainability
Rimma’s experience is grounded in applied work carried out within large Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) projects, where AI systems were designed and validated in real engineering workflows. This practical experience also became the foundation of her PhD research, which focused on building AI systems that operate under real industrial constraints such as scale, safety, reliability, and energy efficiency.
Her work shows how AI can be integrated into complex engineering environments to support more sustainable outcomes. This includes applications in energy and infrastructure, particularly in the context of the energy transition and green hydrogen.
Alongside her industrial work, Rimma is a part-time Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Department of Mathematics & Computer Science. Her academic research in compliance-aware software engineering focuses on embedding assurance, traceability, and conformity assessment directly into AI-enabled industrial systems, helping bridge regulatory requirements with real-world implementation.
“Believe in your potential, follow your passion fearlessly, and you may be surprised by how the world around you starts to support you.”
Empowering the next generation of AI professionals
Beyond her technical and professional expertise, Rimma is passionate about guiding and supporting women in their early careers in the field of AI.
“Believe in your potential, follow your passion fearlessly, and you may be surprised by how the world around you starts to support you”, she advises.
And having been shortlisted as a top three finalist for an AI4Her Award, an initiative that celebrates the remarkable contributions of women in Artificial Intelligence, that’s something Rimma can certainly say she’s doing already.
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