Muhammed Olawale Hakeem Amuda

Muhammed Olawale Hakeem Amuda is a professor of metallurgical and materials engineering at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), with over two decades of experience in teaching, research, innovation, and institutional leadership. His research spans welding and joining technologies, surface engineering, advanced manufacturing and AI-enabled materials engineering. He has published extensively, supervised undergraduate and postgraduate researchers, and led multidisciplinary research and innovation programs.

He is director of the Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe Centre for Information Technology and Systems (ABS-CITS), UNILAG, where he leads the university’s information and communications technology (ICT) strategy and digital transformation agenda, including digital infrastructure, enterprise systems, e-learning, cybersecurity and ICT governance, and has helped mobilise multi-billion-naira private-sector support for the digitalisation and automation of University processes and services. As Afretec network coordinator at UNILAG, he is building on his previous roles as deputy network coordinator and lead of the Knowledge Creation Pillar. He provides strategic leadership for programs in research, innovation, doctoral capacity development and cross-institutional collaboration. His work uniquely bridges engineering scholarship, digital transformation, innovation and research leadership.