RAHMAN ALADE MUKAILA

Information and Communication Technology

At the Information And Communication Technology department office

Appointment on Visitation important

Topic: Informatics

Description:

My principal research interest lies in Informatics, particularly in exploring the transformative potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in society and organizations to support informed decision-making. In addition, I am actively engaged in research on Information Technology education, focusing on the teaching and learning of IT subject matter. I also investigate Instructional Technology, emphasizing the effective integration and use of IT to enhance educational processes.

In an effort to create a nexus between the brain, religious experiences, and spirituality through the lens of science, the field of Computational Neurotheology was coined. This emerging domain employs computational models and techniques to study and simulate the neural mechanisms underlying religious and spiritual experiences.

I am also engaged in developing advanced image analysis techniques to address medical challenges, such as designing models to predict, diagnose, and monitor diseases. My research focuses on creating machine learning–based algorithms and systems for medical image analysis, aiming to tackle several critical yet complex problems in this domain.

#	Certificate	School	Year
1.	Ph.D (Computer Science)	Computer Science, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos	2010

Relationship between Memorization and Hippocampal-Amgydalae Volumes Differences in Adults Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Several works have examined the relationship between hippocampal volumes and memory performance that resulted into some of these researches negating well-known brain volume hypotheses including the bigger, the better. Also, many of these studies focused on the relationship between hippocampal volume and memory ability in healthy individuals. However, none of these works considered whether or not memorization has any effect on hippocampal and amygdalae development. The study aimed to investigate the association between scripture memorization and Hippocampal-Amgydalae volumes using MRI techniques. 73 older healthy adults who were 35 to 80 years of age, and who did not have record of either neurological or psychological disorders served as participants for the study. Of these, the Quran memorizers group CMQ; n=20 had completely committed the Quran to their memory, the group with incomplete memorization PMQ; n=35 had partially memorized some portion of the Quran, while the control group CON; n=18 , had never memorised the Quran. The extracted left and right hippocampus and amygdala volumes of the CMQ and PMQ were compared with CON using one-way ANOVA. All statistical analyses were carried out using SPSS software and p values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant. There was no significant difference between the ages of the three groups all p greater than 0.050 . Both left and right hippocampal volumes of CMQ are found to be bigger than that of PMQ and CON subjects p less than 0.05 . Our results show that the CMQ group have more hippocampal tissues preserved in their brains compared to those of the other groups. However, there are no significant differences between the volumes of the amygdala structure among the three groups. The findings suggest the role that memorization of the scripture could play in hippocampal healthiness of aging individuals.

RAHMAN MUKAILA is a Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Technology

RAHMAN has a Ph.D in Computer Science from Computer Science, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos