Yalew Zelalem Jembre (Ph.D.) received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, in 2007; and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Ajou University, in 2012 and 2017, respectively. From 2008 to 2010, he worked as a Fixed Line Next Generation Network (FL-NGN) Engineer at a Telecom Company, ZTE (H.K.) Ethiopian Branch. He worked as an Assistant Professor in Daegu, South Korea at Kyungpook National University, from Sep. 2017 to Dec. 2018, and at Keimyung University, from Mar. 2019 to Jan. 2024. Starting Jul. 2024, he became an Assistant Teaching Professor at Loyola University Maryland, MD, USA. Dr. Yalew is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Hunan International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Intelligent network, since Jan 2022. As an academic, he published multiple articles in international journals and proceedings. He received the Best Paper Award from the Journal of Communications and Networks, in 2015. His research area is in wireless communication, mainly focusing on IEEE 802.11 based ad-hoc, mesh, cognitive radio, vehicular, and IoT networks.
In addition, Dr. Yalew has more than 6 years of experience in software development and engineering. He successfully developed and uploaded Awera and CheQ-In mobile apps in both Google and Apple stores. Furthermore, I designed and developed a prototype of the Injera Printer (IP). I am currently waiting on a patent. IP takes flour, water, and yeast as an input and automatically prints/bakes Injera (Please visit the development menu to learn more about my SW and HW endeavor).
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