Dr. Sanah Abdullahi Muaz

Dr. Sanah Abdullahi Muaz is a Kano indigene and a Software Engineering lecturer with more than ten years of university teaching experience at Bayero University Kano, where she teaches and supervises undergraduate and postgraduate software development projects. Her research covers deep learning and natural language processing for low-resource African languages, particularly Hausa, and has attracted over 300 citations. She has served on several Kano State committees, including the postgraduate scholarship committee and the committee on domesticating the Federal Character Act. She co-develops Aboki AI, a Hausa-centric AI solution, and chairs the Ideas and Research-Based Product Development Sub-Committee at the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD). She mentors and judges hackathons, tech policy forums and innovation programs across Nigeria, and is a technology advocate for AI and digital inclusion, with a focus on Hausa language technologies and women’s participation in technology and academia. She brings this experience to practical, project-based training in full stack application development.