Teaching & Service

My teaching experience includes independent undergraduate course instruction, graduate and undergraduate teaching assistance, thesis supervision, research project mentoring, and educational outreach.

🎓 University Teaching

University of Amsterdam

Recommender Systems

MSc Artificial Intelligence · 2025–2026

Developed and delivered lectures on generative recommendation and supported research-oriented student projects using the Snellius supercomputer.

2025 Slides · 2026 Slides · Snellius Guide

Information Retrieval 0

BSc Artificial Intelligence · 2025

Teaching assistant for laboratory sessions, assignments, student projects, feedback, grading, and final-exam assessment.

Information Retrieval 1

MSc Artificial Intelligence · 2024

Teaching assistant for laboratory sessions, assignments, project feedback, grading, and exam preparation and assessment.

🏫 Previous Teaching Experience

University of Gondar, Ethiopia

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Computer Science · 2017–2019

Served as the primary instructor for the following undergraduate courses:

• Introduction to Computer Science
• Programming I
• Advanced Programming
• Database Systems
• Operating Systems

I was responsible for course delivery, student support, assignments, examinations, and assessment. I also supervised BSc thesis projects.

🔎 Thesis Supervision

Multilingual Search for Low-Resource Languages

BSc Thesis, University of Amsterdam · 2026

Supervising a thesis comparing lexical, dense, and hybrid retrieval methods across Telugu, Amharic, Swahili, and Bengali. The project examines query translation, multilingual representations, tokenization, retrieval effectiveness, and cross-lingual error patterns.

🌍 Mentoring & Outreach

• Teaching Assistant, AddisCoder — Supported programming and algorithms education for Ethiopian secondary-school students. [Blog]
• Hackathon Mentor, ESSIR 2024 — Mentored participants and supported event organization.
• Mentor, MeetMentors — Providing academic and career guidance to students and early-career researchers.
• Core Team Volunteer, Women in AI & Robotics · September 2021–April 2022.

🧑‍⚖️ Academic Service

Reviewer for information retrieval and machine learning venues, including NeurIPS 2026, multiple tracks at SIGIR 2026, and ECIR 2025.

🌟 Served as a Low Resource Environments Shepherd at SIGIR 2026. [Certificate]

🌟 Recognized as a Best Reviewer at ECIR 2025. [Certificate]