Academic experts from the Faculty of Engineering, the Department of Architecture, and their team of researchers have remained steadfast, sustaining the institution’s culture of continuous contribution to the existing body of knowledge.
Ending the year 2022 on a high note, Prof. Steve Adeshina, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and his team, comprising Prof. Aibinu and Jibril A. Bala, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, were recently published on MDPI’s journal category of Sensors and Informatics.
Their research work on MDPI’s Sensors examined recent advancements in Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping approaches for autonomous vehicles. The journal, “Sensors,” is indexed in SCI and SCOPUS and has a 91% Q1 rating.
Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Nile University of Nigeria.
Prof Steve also published another article in MDPI’s Informatics, a 90% Q1 journal. The research proposed an automated method for the binary classification of breast cancer tumours as either malignant or benign that utilizes a bag of deep multi-resolution convolutional features (BoDMCF) extracted from histopathological images at four resolutions (40×, 100×, 200× and 400×) by three pre-trained state-of-the-art deep CNN models: ResNet-50, EfficientNetb0, and Inception-v3.
These two new papers add up to 10 top Scopus-indexed articles attributed to Prof. Steve in 2022.
In the same vein, Nile University’s Architecture Head of Department, Dr. Timothy Onosahwo Iyendo, and his team of researchers were recently published in two papers in the prestigious SAGE Journal. Both papers were indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, including the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation, and SCOPUS (which rated both papers as Q1).
The first study by Dr. Iyendo and his team investigated the efficacy of music therapy as an intervention for lowering generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) symptoms among Nigerian students evacuated from Ukraine owing to the Russia-Ukraine war. According to their findings, participants in the music therapy group had a considerable reduction in anxiety from severe to mild.
In their second study, Dr. Iyendo and his colleagues explored how the use of visual multimedia interventions could boost users’ social media literacy to counteract fake news. They discovered that people who were exposed to visual multimedia and social media literacy skills training had stronger social media expertise, were more likely to recognize fake news, had a higher proclivity to verify information, and had lower tendency to propagate fake news.
Head of Department(HOD), Architecture, Nile University of Nigeria.
These two recent papers by the Architecture Head of Department of Nile University of Nigeria were published in top journals with Cite Scores of 93% and 99%, respectively. It is projected that with these top-tier publications, Dr. Iyendo’s agenda for transdisciplinary research collaboration has just begun and could result in a series of robust articles for the Nile University of Nigeria.
Dr. Iyendo is a fervent researcher with interests in soundscape ecology, therapeutic gardens and landscapes, music psychology treatments, art therapy interventions, and visual multimedia interventions. He has worked closely with academics, researchers, and scientists in Turkey, Cyprus, China, Iran, and Nigeria.
These teams of Nile University professionals continued to inspire young academics across the university and the country with their remarkable accomplishments. The Management of Nile University of Nigeria celebrates Prof. Steve Adeshina, Dr. Timothy Iyendo and the rest of their research team.
