Curriculum Vitae

A condensed CV. For the full version, email me.

Positions

• 2026–presentGoogle DeepMind Academic FellowUniversity College London, UK
• 2025–2026Postdoctoral ResearcherMBZUAI, UAE, with Prof. Thamar Solorio
• 2024–2025Visiting StudentMBZUAI, UAE
• 2023Research ScholarUniversity of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA

Education

• 2022–2024PhD, Computer ScienceInstituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City. Advisors: Prof. Alexander Gelbukh and Prof. Olga Kolesnikova
• 2019–2021MSc, Information TechnologyWolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia
• 2011–2015BSc, Computer ScienceMadawalabu University, Ethiopia

Awards and honours

• 2026Google DeepMind Academic FellowshipUniversity College London
• 2026Social Impact Paper Award, ACL 2026Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages
• 2024Outstanding Paper Award, EMNLP 2024The Zeno’s Paradox of “Low-Resource” Languages
• 2023Best Paper Award · Area Chair Award (Resources & Evaluation), IJCNLP-AACL 2023MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African Languages

Publications

30 papers, listed on the publications page.

Languages

English · Amharic · Wolaita