I graduated as Electrical and Computer Engineer before joining Addis Ababa University as a graduate assistant/system administrator teaching Electrical Engineering Laboratories in 2003. I later became a lecturer teaching Computer Engineering courses and doing research. I am currently an assistant professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering where I continue to teach and do research in the field of Computer Engineering. I have also served at different leadership positions.
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering – Addis Ababa University, 2019. Thesis: “Acceleration and Energy Reduction of Object Detection on Mobile Graphics Processing Unit.”
M.Sc. in Computer Engineering - Addis Ababa University, 2008. Thesis: “Distributed Denial of Service Attack Detection: A Hybrid Intelligent System Approach”
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Computer Stream), Addis Ababa University, 2003.
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AAiT, AAU (07/2019 – to date)
Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan (01/2021 - 12/23)
Research Scientist (Post Doc), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan (09/2019 - 06/019)
University of Michigan African Presidential Scholar, (08/2016 - 02/2017)
Lecturer ECE at Department, Faculty of Technology, AAU (08/2008 to 07/2019)
Assistant Lecturer at ECE Department, Faculty of Technology, AAU (08/2004 to 07/2008)
Graduate Assistant at ECE Department, Faculty of Technology, and AAU (09/2003 to 09/2004)
Chair of Computer Engineering at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AAiT, AAU (10/2021 to date)
Acting Head, Pre-engineering and Common Course Department, AAiT, AAU (06/2019 to 09/2019)
Head, Student Career Development Center, AAiT, AAU (10/2018 to 09/2019)
Computer Engineering Chair at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AAiT, AAU (10/2013 to 03/2015)
Assistant department head at the pre-engineering department, Faculty of Technology, AAU (09/ 2008 to 09/2011)
System Administrator at the Computer Center of Faculty of Technology, AAU (09/2003 to 07/2008)
System Administrator at the university wide network, ICT Development Office, AAU (01/2004 to 07/2004)
Temesgen, Elleni Sisay, Hellina Hailu Nigatu, and Fitsum Assamnew Andargie. "Cognate Detection for Historical Language Reconstruction of Proto-Sabean Languages: the Case of Ge’ez, Tigrinya, and Amharic." Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 2025.
Demissie, Dereje Degeffa, and Fitsum Assamnew Andargie. "Explainable Rhythm-Based Heart Disease Detection from ECG Signals." In Pan African
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 101-116. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.
Gebrehiwot, T. G., Andargie , F. A. & Ismail, M. (2023). "DEACT: Hardware Solution to Rowhammer Attacks. Journal of Computer Science", 19(7), 861-876.
https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2023.861.876
Gebrehiwot, T. G., Andargie, F. A. & Ismail, M. (2023). "DDRSHARP: A Fast and Extensible DRAM Simulator. Journal of Computer Science", 19(7), 836-846. https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2023.836.846
Biernacki, Lauren, Biniyam Mengist Tiruye, Meron Zerihun Demissie, Fitsum Assamnew Andargie, Brandon Reagen, and Todd Austin. "Exploring the Efficiency of Data-Oblivious Programs." In 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), pp.189-200. IEEE, 2023.
Tufa, Guta Tesema, Fitsum Assamnew Andargie, and Anchit Bijalwan. "Acceleration of Deep Neural Network Training Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays." Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience 2022 (2022).
Biernacki, Lauren, Meron Zerihun Demissie, Kidus Birkayehu Workneh, Fitsum Assamnew Andargie, and Todd Austin. "Sequestered Encryption: A Hardware Technique for Comprehensive Data Privacy." In 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED), pp. 73-84. IEEE, 2022.
Biernacki, L., Demissie, M. Z., Workneh, K. B., Namomsa, G. B., Gebremedhin, P., Andargie, F. A., Reagen, B., Austin T., "VIP-Bench: A Benchmark Suite for Evaluating Privacy-Enhanced Computation Frameworks", International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED), 2021
Belayneh, Leul., Andargie, Fitsum., Bertacco, Valeria., "Archipelago: Architectural Support for Graph Analytics on GPUs." ACM-SRC, International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2020, Workshop poster
Andargie, Fitsum Assamnew., Rose, Jonathan., Austin, Todd ., Bertacco, Valeria., "Energy efficient object detection on the mobile GP-GPU." In 2017 IEEE AFRICON, pp. 945-950. IEEE, 2017.
Andargie, Fitsum Assamnew., and Rose, Jonathan., "Performance characterization of mobile GP-GPUs." In AFRICON 2015, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2015.
Andargie, F., Raimond, K., "Distributed Denial of Service Attack Detection:A Hybrid Intelligent System Approach", In ESEE International Conference Proceedings, 2008
Andargie, F. A., Rose, J., Austin, T., Bertacco, V., “Energy Efficient Object Detection on Mobile GPUs and Application to Medical Image Classification”, May 29- June 2, 2017, STEM IV: Africa-US Frontiers in Science, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Fitsum Andargie, “Accelerating Computer Vision Using Mobile GP GPUs (STEM)”, February 2, 2017, 2016-2017 UMAPS Scholar Research Colloquium Series
Building a benchmark suite to measure the performance of homomorphic encryption libraries as well as other privacy enhanced libraries
Architectural solution to improve the performance of workloads with irregular memory access patterns on GPUs
MSc. Theses
Natural Language Processing & Machine Learning
Pivot Based Multilingual Machine Translation for Low Resource Ethiopian Languages , Elias Feleke
Multi-Aspect Sentiment Analysis of Amharic Posts using BERT, Fikir Yilkal
Accelerators
Acceleration of Deep Neural Network Training using Field Programmable Gate Arrays , Guuta Tesema
Helper for Graph Application Accelerators , Betelhem Mengesha
Accelerator for Q-learning , Henok Teka
Security
Secure E-voting Using Quantum cryptography and Blockchain, Zemenfes Hailemariam
Application Layer DDoS Attack Classification, Beckham Berhanu
How Secure are Ethiopian University Networks, Beka Kebede
MSc. Theses
Tirur: Low Overhead Hardware Extension for Securing Memory, Donayam Nega, supervised with Salesawi Ferede (PhD) Mar. 2019
Acceleration of Preprocessor of the Snort Network Intrusion Detection System Using General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit, Simegnew Yihune Alaba, Mar. 2015
Performance Improvement of Multi-scale Modeling of Concrete Performance Solver Using Hybrid CPUGPU System, Lina Feleke Kebede supervised with Esayas Gebreyouhannes (PhD), Mar. 2015
ECEG-6503: Advanced Computer Architecture, Fall 2021
ECEG-6530: Computer and Network Security, Fall 2021
Selected Topics in Network and System Security - Spring 2021
CSEC-6012: Cyber Security Essentials, Spring 2021
ECEG-6503: Advanced Computer Architecture , Spring 2021
Software Engineering, Fall 2021
Software Engineering, Spring 2021
Software Engineering, Fall 2018
Introduction to Robotics
Introduction to Computing (C/C++)
Object Oriented Programming (JAVA)
Data Structures
Applied Electronics I and II
Introduction to Computational Methods
Shell Programming
Introduction to Network Programming
Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering Labs
Network and System Administration Labs
Algorithm and Data Structure Labs