Asmelash Hadgu
Founder And CEO at Lesan AI
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAsmelash Hadgu is a founder and CEO based in Berlin with 12 years of experience building big data and machine learning products from research to commercialization. He co-founded Lesan and now leads Lesan AI, drawing on a PhD-era background at L3S and hands-on internships at IBM and Yahoo! where he implemented distributed ML on Spark and pioneered political-leaning analysis on Twitter. He combines deep academic training in semantic web and social-data mining with practical startup leadership, having also co-founded a risk analytics venture and participated in Entrepreneur First. Known for translating complex ML research into scalable systems, he is comfortable owning both technical architecture and product strategy. An approachable technologist, he often bridges interdisciplinary teams—data scientists, engineers and domain experts—to ship data-driven solutions. Outside the obvious, his career shows a consistent pattern of turning research prototypes into market-facing products.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology at Mekelle Institute of TechnologySemantic Web, Semantic Web at Universitatea Politehnica din BucureştiData Mining and Complex System Modelling, Application in Social Science, Data Mining and Complex System Modelling, Application in Social Science at Université Lumière Lyon 2
English, German
Github Skills (4)
natural-language-processing7
machine-translation7
machine-learning6
twitter5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
asmelashteka/twitteradvancedsearch
Oct 2016 - Mar 2019
Wrapper around the Twitter Advanced Search.
Contributions:1 release, 64 commits, 1 push in 2 years 5 months
twitter
asmelashteka/HornMT
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
Machine translation (MT) benchmark dataset for languages in the Horn of Africa.
Contributions:2 releases, 6 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
machine-translationnatural-language-processingdatasethorn-of-africaparallel-corpus
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