Chala Merga Abdissa, Ph.D.
◉ Assistant Professor, Robot Control and Learning
College of Technology and Built Environment,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Addis Ababa University.
Address: Office #141, Samsung Building, P.O. Box: 385, College of Technology and Built Environment, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa 1000, Ethiopia.
Email: chalmer.abdissa@gmail.com, chala.merga@aau.edu.et
◉ Adjunct Instructor at Carnegie Mellon University Africa, Kigali, Rwanda.
Email: cabdissa@andrew.cmu.edu
Address: Regional ICT Center of Excellence Bldg, Office: C104
Kigali Innovation City - Bumbogo
BP 6150, Kigali, Rwanda.
Website: https://sites.google.com/aait.edu.et/abdissachalamerga
Chala Merga Abdissa received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and the M.Tech. degree in Microelectronic Engineering from Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 2009 and 2011, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronics Engineering from Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea, in 2018. He was a postdoctoral research fellow of rehabilitation robotics at Asan Medical Center, Seoul Korea during Sept. 2018- Dec. 2020. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Addis Ababa University. His main research interests include robotics, machine learning and control systems.
He serves as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE). He was an adjunct faculty with the Pan African University Institute for Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation (PAUSTI) which is hosted at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Nairobi, Kenya. He is currently an adjunct Instructor with Carnegie Mellon University Africa.