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Iโm Kidist, a PhD student in the Information Retrieval Lab (IRLab) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) supervised by Prof. dr. Maarten de Rijke and Dr. Andrew Yates. My primary research focuses on Generative methods for Information Retrieval. I'm passionate about Generative Modelling, Multi-modal Learning, and Reinforcement Learning.
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I'm a lifelong learner ๐ฑ.
- ๐ญ Currently a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (2023 - Present)
- ๐ง๐ฝโ๐ฌ๐งช Data Science Research Intern, NANOVERY, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom (Apr 2022 - Oct 2022)
- ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ M.Sc in Data Science at University of Trento, Italy (2020-2022)
- ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ M.Sc in Machine Intelligence, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS-Rwanda) (2019-2020)
- ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ซ๐ฅผ Assistant Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Gondar, Ethiopia (2017-2019)
- ๐ BSc in Computer Science at University of Gondar, Ethiopia (2013-2017)
- Teaching Assistant at AddisCoder
- One of the organizers of the European Summer School on Information Retrieval(ESSIR - 2024)
- Mentor at MeetMentors
- Core Team VolunteerCore at Women in AI & Robotics (Sep 2021 - Apr 2022)
- Volunteer at Women in AI (Sep 2020 - Sep 2021)