I am currently a PhD student and research assistant at Saarland University, with over four years of experience in the machine learning industry. My journey in the field includes roles such as Applied Research Data Scientist at Iquartic and Applied ML Developer at SingularityNet/iCog-Labs.
Academically, 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 and ETHIO NLP community.
My research interest includes natural language processing, high-performance computing in AI, multimodal learning and the application of deep learning.
News
November 28, 2024 🗞️ Paper accepted at EMNLP 2024 Walia-LLM: Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA by Integrating Task-Specific and Generative Datasets
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