Full Name |
Solomon Atnafu Besufekad |
Education Attended |
- 1. PhD. in Computer Science, Sept. 1999 – July 2003; University of Lyon, FRANCE
- 2. Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (DEA) – Ecole Doctoral d’Informatique et System d’Information pour la Society ; INSA de Lyon, France; (October 1998 – July 1999)
- 3. M.Sc. in Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany (Feb. 1987 – August 1989)
- 4. B.Sc. in Mathematics, Mathematics Department, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (Sept. 1979-July 1983)
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Academic Rank |
Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Addis Ababa University |
Working for AAU |
Since September 1995 |
Administrative positions held |
- Associate Director, Center for IT Research and Innovation (CITRI), IT Doctoral Program, (July 11, 2011 – Present)
- Coordinator of the Information Retrieval and Language Technology Research Tracks of the Doctoral Program in Information Technology, Addis Ababa University (May 1, 2009 – Present).
- Head, Department of Computer Science, Addis Ababa University (Feb. 2007 – Sept. 10, 2009).
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Awards____
Recognitions___
Memberships of international bodies/journals__
Editorial roles/initiatives, etc |
Some of the Projects Awarded and Managed:
- Project Manager, RapidSMS based Mobile Data Collection and Reporting System for RUTF and OTP Data, A project sponsored by UNICEF Ethiopia (May 2010 – November 2010),
- Project Manager, Health and Demographic-Data Reporting and Communication System: a Mobile e-Health system for the Case of the Butajira Rural Health Program; A project supported by UNECA. (September 2009 – February 2010)
- Project Leader, Deployment of the Kebele Life-Event Service System (KLESS), A system deployment Project for the transformation of citizen-oriented services of Kebeles to e-Local Governance Platform (September 2009 – February 2010).
- Project Leader, LOG-IN Africa: a research project on e-Local Governance. A project initiated by nine African Research Institutions for research on e-local governance in 2005. Project is sponsored by IDRC-Canada (International Development and Research Center)
Professional Memberships:
- ACM –Association for Computing Machinery (the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society) – http://www.acm.org/
- AIS – Association for Information Systems (an International Professional Society in Information Systems) – http://www.aisnet.org
- EITPA – Ethiopian Information Technology Professionals Association – http://www.eitpa.org.et
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Address |
Campus: College of Natural Sciences, Department of Computer Science
Building name: Computer Science Building,
Floor number: 1st Floor
Office Room No.: 228
Office Tel.: (+251) 11 122 29 22
Mobile: (+251) 911 40 69 46
University email ID: solomon.atnafu@aau.edu.et
Alternative email ID: satnafu@gmail.com
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Research interest |
- Multimedia Data Management
- Information Retrieval
- Localization
- e-Governance
- Mobile Information Systems (mHealth, M4D, etc.).
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Publications in reputable journals |
On Reputable Journals:
- Demisse, G., Hill, S., Tadesse, T., Atnafu, S. Drought Prediction System for Improved Climate Change Mitigation, IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume:PP , Issue: 99, pp 1 -6. ISSN: 0196-2892, 01 October 2013
- Demisse, G., Tadesse, T., Atnafu, S., Hill, S., Tesfatsion, Y. (2012). Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and Standard Precipitation Index Parameters to Monitor Drought at National Scale: The Case of Ethiopia, Ethiopian Journal of Development Research, Vol. 34, No. 1, April 2012, pp. 67 – 94
- Tessema Mindaye, Hassen Redwan, Solomon Atnafu; Searching the Web for Amharic Content; On the International Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies (JMPT), 2010. ISSN Print ISSN: 0976-4127, Online ISSN: 0976-4135.
- Getachew Berhan, Tsegaye Tadesse, Solomon Atnafu, Shawndra Hill (2011), Using Satellite Images or Drought Monitoring: A Knowledge Discovery Approach, Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp135 – 153, Spring 2011, ISSN: 0378-0813.
- Dawit Bulcha, Solomon Atnafu, D Coquil, L. Brunie, R. Chbeir ; Salient-Object-Based Image Query by Visual Content; Journal des Sciences pour l’Ingénieur (7):79-86, ISSN 0851-4453. 2006.
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