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Experience
Head of Emerging Technologies Division — INSA — 2/2024 – Present Initiated the National Blockchain Platform project, led AI research and technical solutions, mentored researchers at the INSA talent center, served on the National AI for Health technical working committee, led a quantum computing study.
AI for Cybersecurity Researcher — INSA — 2021 – 2/2024 Led a team applying AI to cybersecurity problems, including audio and video deepfake detection, acoustic side-channel analysis, and Amharic sentiment analysis with encrypted inference.
Cybersecurity Researcher — Cyber Army Development Institute — 2019 Security analysis of open-source IoT cryptography, cryptography protocol analysis, junior training.
Junior Navy Officer — Ethiopian Shipping Lines s.c — 2015
Underwriter — Berhan Insurance s.c — 2013–2014
Education
- MSc, Artificial Intelligence — Addis Ababa University, 8/2023 (GPA 3.5)
- Cybersecurity training — Ariel, Israel, 8/2018
- BSc, Mathematics — Addis Ababa University (GPA 3.6)
Training & certifications
Strategic Foresight for Digital Transformation (2026) · Digital Governance and Cybersecurity (2024) · Strategic Planning and Management (2023) · Project Management (5/2024) · Neural Networks and Deep Learning (2023) · AI Strategy and Governance (2023) · Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (5/2025)