I am currently a PhD student and research assistant at Saarland University supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Slusallek and Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow. With over four years of experience in the machine learning industry, I have worked in diverse applied research roles, including Applied Research Data Scientist at Iquartic and Applied ML Developer at SingularityNet/iCog-Labs.
I hold an MSc in Mathematical Sciences – Machine Intelligence from AIMS-AMMI and a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering from Addis Ababa Institute of Technology. I am an active member of the Masakhane, ETHIO NLP and AI-Grid community.
My research focuses on effective domain adaptation and evaluation methods for large language models (LLMs) in low-resource human and data languages. The overarching goal of my work is to advance the development of AI systems that are accurate, interpretable, robust, and culturally grounded, while remaining human-centered and contextually aware. I investigates how LLMs can better understand, reason, and communicate across linguistic, cultural, and structural boundaries, bridging the gap between human meaning and machine representation. Ultimately, my work aims to create socially aware and context-sensitive AI systems that perform reliably across diverse languages and data modalities.