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Academic qualifications, research appointments, publications, and technical experience.
General Information
| Full Name | Bedru Yimam Ahmed |
| Current Role | Lecturer & Multilingual NLP / Speech Researcher |
| Affiliation | Wollo University (Kombolcha Institute of Technology - KIoT), Ethiopia |
| Department | Department of Information Technology |
| bedruy4@gmail.com | |
| Languages | Amharic (Native), English (Fluent) |
Education
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2020 Master of Science (MSc) in Information Technology
Bahir Dar University (BDU), Ethiopia - Specialized in Machine Learning, Low-Resource Language Technologies, and Information Systems.
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2017 Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Information Technology
Woldia University, Ethiopia - Graduated with distinction in Information Technology and Computing.
Academic Experience
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2020 - Present Lecturer & Researcher
Wollo University (Kombolcha Institute of Technology - KIoT), Ethiopia - Department of Information Technology.
- Research in Low-Resource Semitic NLP, Ethiopic LLMs, Subword Tokenization, and Dialect Speech Recognition.
- Teaching undergraduate courses in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Software Engineering.
Research Interests
- Large Language Models (LLMs) & Subword Tokenization for Semitic/Ge'ez Languages
- Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT / LoRA) for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Clinical and Low-Resource Domains
- Multimodal Deep Learning for African and Ethiopic Languages