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Certefikates/Awards

• Merit Award: GSCL Award for best Doctoral Thesis in the memory of Wolfgang Hoeppner, 2020
• Diaspora Expert mission 2022 to ICT4D research group, BiT, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
• Oracle for Research Grant for the project entitled AfriHate: A Multilingual Hate and Offensive Corpus for Conflict-Affected African Countries

Education

• B.S. in Computer Science, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 2004
• M.S. in Computer Science, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 2009
• Advanced Master in Human Language Technologies and Interfaces, , University of Trento,Italy 2011
• Ph.D in Computer Science, Universität Hamburg, Germany, July 3, 2019

Work experience

• 2004 – 2009 : Lecturer
  • Harmaya University, Etthiopia
  • Adama University, Etthiopia
• 2011 – 2012: Semantic Web Software Engineer
  • Okkam srl, Itally
• 2012 – 2016, Research Assistant and Scientific Software Engineer
  • Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
• 2016 – Current : Research and Teaching Assistant
  • Universität Hamburg, Germany

Skills

• NLP
  • Integration of adaptive machine learning into NLP applications
  • Data Science engineer
    • Big data processing and cleaning
    • Data Integration
• Java
  • Java core
  • Spring and Spring Boot
  • Hibernate
• Machine learning
  • Deeplearning4j
  • scikit-learn
  • PyTorch
  • spaCy
  • NLTK
• Python
• CrowdSourcing
  • Amazon Mechanical Turk