Talks

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• "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

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• 1st Ethiopian ICT Forum (EICTF 2011)
  
  

Conference Reviewer

• IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2018).
  
  
• Ethiopian Information Communication Technology Annual Conference (EICTAC 2014)
  
  
  

Extracurricular Activities

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• Judge:Illinois Junior Academy of Sciences, state competition, 2015
  
  
• Judge:Illinois Junior Academy of Sciences, Region 8 competition, 2015
  
  

Professional Membership

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• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  
  
• 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)