PORTFOLIO / PROJECTS & AWARDS

Projects & Awards

Funded research, grants, and fellowship experience in artificial intelligence and computing.

CURRENT FUNDED RESEARCH

Research projects.

INSTITUTION-BASED RESEARCH GRANT

Explainable AI for breast cancer classification

Developing a context-aware, explainable and trustworthy AI framework for breast cancer classification at Federal University of Lafia Teaching Hospital, with a focus on clinical trust and low-resource healthcare.

Federal University of LafiaCurrent research

DISABILITY RESEARCH GRANT

AI for accessibility, independence & participation

Reviewing AI-driven technologies for persons with disabilities, spanning computer vision, natural language processing, robotics, and ambient intelligence, alongside questions of bias, affordability, and local relevance.

Grant KSRG-2026-710Current research

RESEARCH GRANTS & FELLOWSHIP

Research experience.

Oct 2023 – Jan 2026

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Grant

University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur

Studies towards a framework of AI trust in healthcare.

Nov 2017 to May 2021

Ph.D. Doctoral Candidate

University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur

Investigated feature engineering and fusion for sarcasm identification in Twitter data and developed a multi-feature fusion framework addressing word context, sentiment polarity, and training data sparsity.

Feb 2020 – Jan 2021

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Malaya · Grant FP056-2019A

Bring Your Own Device security policy compliance framework for the Malaysian public sector.

Dec 2020 – Jan 2021

Research Project Co-investigator

University of Malaya · Grant HRG033B-2019

Technology-enhanced classroom-based assessment tools for science teachers and young STEM learners.

Feb 2010 to Jan 2011

Postgraduate Research Project

University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Investigated Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) on mobile devices for peer-to-peer computing.

Research partnership

Research Assistant / Co-investigator

Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University · Grant RP-21-07-07

Deanship of Scientific Research partnership programme.