Tewodros Ayalew
PHD Student at University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTewodros Ayalew is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Chicago specializing in human-robot interaction, bringing a decade of experience in applied machine learning across academia and industry. He has practical ML engineering experience from roles at the Global Institute for Food Security, Honda R&D collaboration, and research positions at the University of Saskatchewan, bridging research rigor with production-minded implementation. Comfortable teaching and mentoring from earlier assistant lecturer and TA roles, he combines strong software engineering roots from his software engineering degree with advanced research at UChicago’s RIPL lab and TTIC. Notably, his background spans interdisciplinary applications—from food security to automotive R&D—demonstrating an ability to adapt ML methods to real-world, domain-specific problems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering at Addis Ababa UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of ChicagoMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Saskatchewan
Amharic, English
Github Skills (4)
segmentation3
heterogeneous2
computer-vision2
pytorch1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
p2irc/UDA4POC
Jun 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 6 pushes, 13 comments in 1 year
tedywond/tedywond.github.io
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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