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Shakirat Aderonke Salihu is a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria. She received her B.Sc. in Computer Science in 2006 from the University of Ilorin and subsequently obtained her M. Sc and Ph.D. degrees from the same University in 2011 and 2022 respectively. Her academic career began at Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa State, Nigeria as an Assistant Lecturer in 2010 and rose to the level of Lecturer III in 2013. She later joined the service of the University of Ilorin as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science in 2014. She has more than 30 publications spanned across her area of research interest. In 2022, she was part of the team that won the Artificial Intelligence for Females in Science Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (AI4FS) Grant sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering (Higher Education Partnerships in Sub-Saharan Africa (HEP SSA) 22/24). She has served the university and the department in various capacities as level Adviser, coordinator of programs, and Examination Officer. Her research interests include Software Maintenance, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning.