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 interest includes natural language processing, high-performance computing in AI, multimodal learning and the application of deep learning.
News
May 11, 2024 🗞️ Organized and have paper at AfricaNLP 2024 Workshop
March 28, 2024 🗞️ Paper accepted at LREC-COLING 2024 EthioLLM: Multilingual Large Language Models for Ethiopian Languages with Task Evaluation
November 27, 2023 🗞️ Organized Weights & Biases : Automated Tracking, Logging, and Collaboration for Research
September 23, 2023 🗞️ Organized Introduction to Large Language Models and their Adaptation