Asmelash Teka Hadgu
Research Fellow
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Asme has built state-of-the-art machine translation systems for Amharic, Tigrinya and English.
Asmelash Teka Hadgu (asme@lesan.ai) is the Co-founder and CTO of Lesan. At Lesan, he has built state-of-the-art machine translation systems to and from Amharic, Tigrinya and English. Prior to Lesan, Asmelash did his PhD at the Leibniz University Hannover where his research focused on applied machine learning for applications in scholarly communication, crisis communication and natural language processing in low resource settings. He is a part-time fellow at DAIR, developing DAIR's partnership with Lesan to create open source tools for social media analysis in Ge’ez based languages such as Tigrinya, Tigre and Amharic.
Photo: Petros Teka