Amsalu Tomas Chuma

[email protected] • +32 486 76 0953 • Tiensestraat 140, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

PhD researcher in healthcare technologies with a strong focus on wearable sensors, including ECG, PCG, and echocardiograph data processing. Proven ability to leverage AI to develop affordable, low-cost healthcare solutions, contributing to personalized healthcare advancements. Successfully led a research project that looked into rheumatic heart disease from low-cost sensors, enhancing automated software tool for disease screening and motoring. Passionate about utilizing machine learning to drive innovation in health technology to ease disease detection.

WORK EXPERIENCE

PhD Researcher

03/2022 - Present

KU Leuven , eMedia Lab, STADIUS, ESAT

• Conducting research on machine learning algorithms for the detection of rheumatic heart disease using wearable ECG and PCG sensors, leading to four publications

• Teaching Digital Signal Processing course, achieving a 96% student satisfaction rate

• Supervised and mentored graduate students on thesis topics related to AI and machine learning for biomedical signals

Assistant Registrar and Lecturer

09/2018 - 09/2020

Addis Ababa Science and Technology University

• Responsible and accountable for all academic tasks:

• Administer Academic commission, registrar and supportive sections for all academic duties

• Senior Lecturer in the department of Software Engineering:

• Teaching, advising and participating on research and community service projects

• Business or sector: Higher Educational Institution

Dean

11/2017 - 11/2018

Admas University, Ethiopia

• Responsible and accountable for all academic tasks:

• Administer Academic commission, Departments, registrar and supportive sections for all academic duties

• Responsible and accountable for all administrative tasks:

• Control, manage and plan human resource issues, finances, daily administrative activities, annual development plans, all non-academic audits

• Business or sector: Higher Educational Institution

Acting Director, Library and Information Services Directorate

07/2017 - 11/2017

Wolaita Sodo University , P.O.Box 138, Wolaita Sodo, Ethiopia

• Responsible and accountable for library and information services directorate:

• Managing libraries at four campuses

• Design ICT infrastructures for libraries in collaboration with ICT directorate

• Control, evaluate and plan human resource issues, finances, daily administrative activities, annual development plans, all non-academic audits of the directorate office

Head of Department and Lecturer

09/2011 - 11/2017

Wolaita Sodo University , P.O.Box 138, Wolaita Sodo, Ethiopia

• Responsible and accountable for department’s academic tasks:

• Administer department council, staffs and other academic issues

• Offer, monitor and evaluate undergraduate courses

• Prepare annual plans for the department

• Business or sector: Higher Educational Institution

Assistant Lecturer

10/2006 - 09/2011

Arba Minch University , P.O. Box 21, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

• Teaching Computer Science and IT courses for undergraduate students

• Advising undergraduate students on their project works

• Participating in research and co-curricular activities in the Institute of Technology

• Business or sector: Higher Educational Institution

EDUCATION

PhD in Electrical Engineering

03/2022

KU Leuven, STADIUS, ESAT eMedia Labs , Group-T Campus, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Advanced Master in Innovative Health Technologies

09/2020 - 06/2021

KU Leuven , Group-T Campus, 3000 Leuven, Belgium GPA: 72.67

IBM Training Professional Skills

06/2020 - 07/2020

IBM , USA

Certificate of Competency in Information Technology support service

04/2020 - 06/2020

Federal democratic government of Ethiopia, Ministry of Education , Ethiopia

Technical and Vocational Training Packages Preparation

05/2020 - 05/2020

Admas University , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Higher Diploma License as a Certified Professional Teacher Educator

10/2017 - 07/2017

Dilla University , Dilla, Ethiopia

MTech Degree in Computer Science Engineering

07/2013 - 12/2015

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-Delhi) , P.O.Box 110016, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India

PEDAGOGY-BASED ICT USE IN EDUCATION

02/2008 - 02/2008

UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa, KERIS, Ministry of Education and KNCU , Ethiopia

Multimedia Production for Educational Technology Software Lessons

04/2007 - 05/2007

USAID , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

BE Degree in Computer Science & Information Technology

10/2002 - 07/2006

Adama University , P.O.Box 2200, Adama, Ethiopia

SKILLS

PROJECTS

Machine Learning for classification of Rheumatic Heart Disease using Wearable ECG Signals

Technologies: Python, Matlab and C++

• Built dataset, and developed waveletCNN Model (Scored 15/20)

Human Activity Recognition using Combined Deep Architectures: CNN+SAE

Technologies: Deep Learning stacks (Python, Matlab, C++)

• MTech Project Title (Scored: A (Excellent))

Analysis on physical Layer of WiFi: i-Mode

Technologies: Wireshark, Matlab

• Bachelors Project Title ( Scored: A (Excellent))

Green computing, Designing IMS(Customer management , Multimedia production) for Ethiopian press agency

Technologies: React, Nodejs, MongoDB

• Principal investigator in Green computing

• Designing IMS(Customer management , Multimedia production) for Ethiopian press agency

Wolaita people to the web, Application & analysis of E-learning in science subjects

Technologies: html, css, php, MySQL

• Co-investigator in Wolaita people to the web

• Application & analysis of E-learning in science subjects

CERTIFICATIONS

IBM Cloud and AI Developer

06/2020

IBM USA