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Research & Academic Work

My work sits between engineering and research: building systems that make data trustworthy, and applying machine learning to problems where correctness and explainability matter more than raw accuracy.

Those interests run across data-quality engineering, applied machine learning and security, research information systems, explainable medical imaging, and language technology for Afaan Oromoo — a language with limited digital resources.

Research Interests

  • Software Engineering
  • Data-Quality Engineering
  • Applied Machine Learning
  • Cybersecurity
  • Research Information Systems
  • Explainable Medical AI
  • Afaan Oromoo Language Technology

Areas of Work

Selected Research

Strands of ongoing engineering and experimentation. Each is evidenced by public code — none of these are published papers.

  • Automated Data-Quality Monitoring

    How data-quality expectations can be expressed, checked continuously and surfaced early enough to act on — covering validation rules, anomaly and schema-drift detection, and the workflows that follow a failed check.

    • Data-Quality Engineering
    • Software Engineering

    Approach

    • Python
    • pandas
    • PostgreSQL
    • SQLAlchemy
    • Streamlit

    Related work: Data Quality Monitoring

  • Malicious URL and QR-Code Detection

    Feature extraction from URLs and QR payloads, machine-learning classification of risk, and presenting that assessment to a non-specialist in language they can act on.

    • Cybersecurity
    • Applied Machine Learning

    Approach

    • Flutter
    • Dart
    • Python
    • Machine learning

    Related work: TurkQuish

  • Research Information Systems

    Aggregating institutional research into a single discoverable corpus, and the retrieval problem that follows: semantic search over heterogeneous records, and assistance that stays grounded in retrieved evidence.

    • Research Information Systems
    • Applied Machine Learning

    Approach

    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • PostgreSQL
    • pgvector
    • SQLAlchemy

    Related work: ResearchHub Ethiopia

  • Afaan Oromoo Language Technology

    Building usable language tools for Afaan Oromoo, where digital resources are scarce: bilingual lexical search, offline-first delivery for low-connectivity settings, and the data structures that make both practical.

    • Afaan Oromoo Language Technology
    • Software Engineering

    Approach

    • Flutter
    • Dart
    • Material Design
    • Offline-first

    Related work: Afaan Oromoo Dictionary

Status

Academic Work in Progress

  • MSc in Computer Engineering

    Near completion

    Konya Technical University