Talks

  • "The Need for Amharic WordNet". The 5th International Conference of the Global WordNet Association, Mubai, India, February, 2010.
  • "Search Engine for Amharic Web Content". The 9th IEEE AFRICON Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, September, 2009.
  • "Amharic Information Retrieval". The 21st Annual Conference of the Institute of Ethiopian Language Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June, 2009.
  • The 5th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet Based Systems, Marrakech, Morocco, November, 2009.


Program Committee

  • International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2022)
  • International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2021)
  • 1st Ethiopian ICT Forum (EICTF 2011)

Journal and Conference Review

  • Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances Systems and Applications
  • Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems
  • IEEE Transaction on Reliability
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2021)
  • IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2018).
  • Ethiopian Information Communication Technology Annual Conference (EICTAC 2014)


Extracurricular Activities

  • Judge:Prince William-Manassas Regional Science and Engineering Fair, 2022
  • Judge:Illinois Junior Academy of Sciences, state competition, 2015
  • Judge:Illinois Junior Academy of Sciences, Region 8 competition, 2015


Professional Membership

  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Services Society (S2)
  • Internet Society (ISOC)
  • Ethiopian Information Technology Professionals Association (EITPA)
    • Executive Committee Member and general Secretary (June 2009 - October 2011).
  • Ethiopian Free and Open Source Software Network (EFOSSNet)
  • Ethiopian Statistical Association (ESA)