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Management Members CV

The Center has more than 45 senior-level faculty from national, regional, and international institutions. ACEWM affiliated 38 faculty who are engaged in teaching, research, joint supervision of students, and offering short courses.

Wondwossen Mulugeta (PhD)

Assistant Professor of Information Science, School of Information Science, Addis Ababa University
ICT and Logistics Coordinator
Personal Information
  1. Full Name: Wondwossen Mulugeta Gewe
  2. Title: Assistant Professor of Information Technology,
  3. Emails: wondwossen.mulugeta@aau.edu.et Or wondisho@yahoo.com
Professional Preparation/Educational Background
  1. B.Sc. Degree in Statistics (minor: Computer science) from Addis Ababa University in the years 1999
  2. M.Sc. Degree in Information Science with Very Great Distinction from Addis Ababa University in the year 2004
  3. PhD in Information Technology, Language Technology Specialization from Addis Ababa University in the years 2015
Experiences and Appointments Experiences
  1. Vice President for Institutional Development, Addis Ababa University.
  2. ICT and Logistics Coordinator, Africa Center of Excellence for Water Management (ACEWM) since 2017.
  3. Director for Academic Staff Affairs Office, Addis Ababa University, May 2018-July 2021
  4. Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, Addis Ababa University since 2015
  5. Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Feb 2015-May 2018
  6. Assistant Dean, Faculty of Informatics, Addis Ababa University, August 2005-October 2007
  7. Lecturer, School of Information Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Nov 2004-June 2015
  8. Expert, Product Development and Market Research, Ethiopian Export Promotion Agency, Sept 1999-Oct 2002
Project Experiences
  1. Project Manager for the Development of National Knowledge Management Repository Platform, Ministry of Innovation and Technology (MinT), January 2021-Present
  2. Consultant for the Development of Data Warehouse Requirement Documentation for MoH, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., Data Use Partners Project, January 2019-December 2019
  3. Lead Consultant for the Implementation of Integrated Library, Archives and Records Management System, Ethiopian National Archives and Library Agency (NALA), May 2019-Present
  4. Core Project Team Member for the Development of RFP for ERP Implementation, Ethiopian Construction Works Corporation (ECWC), Nov 2019-April 2020
  5. Project Management Lead Consultant, Cultural Heritage Inventory Management System (CHIMS), Authority of Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 2017-June 2018
  6. Project Manager, E-Learning Content Development Project, MCIT (Under IntraCom PLC), June 2018-Oct 2018
  7. Project Manager, Integrated Budget and Finance System (IBFIS), Addis Ababa University, Budget and Finance Office, March 2009-Sept. 2011
Selected Publications/Conference
  1. Abate, Solomon Teferra, Michael Melese, Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Million Meshesha, Solomon Atinafu, Wondwossen Mulugeta, Yaregal Assibie et al. "Parallel Corpora for bi-lingual English-Ethiopian Languages Statistical Machine Translation." In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pp. 3102-3111. 2018.
  2. Abate, Solomon Teferra, Michael Melese, Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Million Meshesha, Solomon Atinafu, Wondwossen Mulugeta, Yaregal Assabie et al. "Parallel Corpora for bi-Directional Statistical Machine Translation for Seven Ethiopian Language Pairs." In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Linguistic Resources for Natural Language Processing, pp. 83-90. 2018.
  3. Wondwossen Mulugeta, Machine Learning of Complex Morphology: the case of Amharic (2015) , PhD Dissertation, IT Doctoral Program Office, Addis Ababa University.
  4. Wondwossen Philemon and Wondwossen Mulugeta. "A Machine Learning Approach to Multi-Scale Sentiment Analysis of Amharic Online Posts.", HiLCoE Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol. 2, No. 2, June 2014
  5. Wondwossen Mulugeta, Optical Character Recognition for Handwritten Amharic Text, Neural Network Approach. (2004) Master Thesis, School of Information Science, Addis Ababa University.
  6. Wondwossen M., Gaseer M., and Baye Y. (2013). “Automatic Morpheme Slot Identification Using Genetic Algorithm” Proceedings of LTC2013, pages 463-468, LTC 2013, Poznan Poland.
  7. Wondwossen M., Gaseer M., and Baye Y. (2012). “Incremental Learning of Affix Segmentation” Proceedings of COLING 2012: Technical Papers, pages 1901–1914, COLING 2012, December 2012. Mumbai
  8. Mulugeta, W and Gasser, M. (2012). “Learning morphological rules for Amharic verbs using inductive logic programming”. SALTMIL-AfLaT Workshop on Language Technology for Normalisation of Less-Resourced Languages. LREC 2012, May 2012, Istanbul.
Main Research Activities/Interest
  • My research is mainly inf information technology field of study focusing on language technology, machine learning and data science. The works I do mainly are on applying machine learning approaches to deal with data intensive problem areas specially in human language processing and big data analytics.

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