Henok B. Ademtew

Addis Ababa - Ethiopia

πŸ‘‹αˆ°αˆ‹αˆ, I'm a final year undergraduate student majoring in computer science. I'm broadly interested in Natural Language Processing, ML and Deep Learning.

Highlights
πŸ“Œ NLP Research Intern at MIR Labs, 2022
πŸ“Œ Cohere AI Champion, 2022
πŸ“Œ MLH Fellow, 2022
πŸ“Œ 15+ hackathons winner
πŸ“Œ Contributed to CNCF, MDAnalysis, IHP among others.
πŸŽ™ Spoke at Devopsdays Chattanooga, USA


Experience

Software Engineer β€” Intern

β€’ Worked on backend systems

Feb 2023 - April 2023

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Research Intern

β€’ Analysing text based emotion detection and surveying papers for the past 10 years.
β€’ Designing emotion detection using LLM’s and Deep Learning under Prof. Anitha Pillai.

October 2022 - Present

Auburn, Washington, USA

Undergraduate Researcher


β€’ Working on developing and pre-training LLMs using fine-tuning and from scratch.

August 2022 - Present

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Software Engineer β€” Intern

β€’ Working on various full stack web developments that have been launched.
β€’ Followed SDLC best practices to produce rapid iterations for different products.
β€’ Code testing and UI/UX work for different parts of the system

June 2022 - January 2023

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Research Intern

β€’ Exploring natural language processing using publicly avalible twitter data for sentiment analysis.
β€’ Studying text vectorization algorithms.
β€’ Implemented BERT model for sentiment analysis

March 2022 - October 2022

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Robotics and coding instructor

β€’ Prepared students for the VEX Robotics competition to represent Ethiopia and Africa.
β€’ Mentored students in groups and private classes from basics to advanced programming in C, python, and Java.
β€’ Conducted different presentations and spoke for outreach programs.

August 2021 - June 2022

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Machine Learning teacher

β€’ Mentored students in the Bay area and Silicon Valley basics to advanced level python.
β€’ Taught students to implement NumPy, decision tree classifiers, and advanced level ML.
β€’ Adapted and optimized online learning tools for better interaction.

Dec 2020 - March 2021

Santa Clara, California, United States

Software Engineering Virtual Internship Experience

β€’ Displayed data visually for traders using JPMorgan Chase frameworks, tools, and interface with a stock price data feed.
β€’ Involved in working on practical tasks in establishing financial data feeds, frontend web development, and data visualization with perspective.

Sept 2020-Oct 2020

Teaching Assistant

β€’ Worked with UC Berkeley professor Jelani Nelson, professor Boaz Barak(Harvard) and Dr. Timnit Gebru where I mentored students to reinforce DSA learning concepts in a 5-week summer camp.
β€’ Managed to cover concepts in algorithms, optimization, DP, and complexity for high schoolers.
β€’ Managed a lab of 30+ students to prepare and help students solve problem sets also worked with people from Google, Meta, and other companies.

July 2019 - August 2019

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


Education

Kotebe Metropolitan University

BSc, Computer Science

Relevant Coursework:
Digital Logic Design, Object Oriented Programming, Linear Algebra, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Numerical Analysis, Software Engineering, Operating Systems, Real Time and Embedded Systems, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Microprocessor and Assembly Language, Computer Vision and Image Processing

September 2019 - Present

Activities & Communities

- Lead: Google Developer Student Clubs
- Member: Black in AI
- Member: Cohere For AI(C4AI)
- Member: Masakhane
- Microsoft Learn Student Ambassdor

Services

πŸ“ŒICML, 2022 -Volunteer: International Conference on Machine Learning
πŸ“ŒSF Hacks - Judge and Mentor: San Francisco's Largest Collegiate Hackathon



Awards

Contact

I would be happy for a chat and you can reach out to me here:
πŸ“© Email - henokb2124@gmail.com
πŸ“© Email - henok@codeday.org
☎️ Phone - +251974511981
🟦 LinkedIn

Β© Henok Ademtew 2023