Solomon Mengesha Kebede
Data Scientist, AI/ML Engineer & Developer

Solomon
Mengesha Kebede

Transforming data into insights, complexity into clarity and Building ML pipelines

Computer Science student passionate about machine learning, natural language processing, and building intelligent systems that solve real-world problems. Based in Frankfurt, Germany.

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LATEST UPDATES
My research on Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (DimABSA) was published at SemEval 2026! Read Paper
Current Research: Proposing a new parameter-efficient Multi-Dialect Amharic ASR system using LoRA. GitHub repo
Led a team at the DB Techathon 2025 for building a scalable Sentiment Analysis system.
Accepted for the new Masters Program called 'AI and Digitalization in Learning and Instruction' at Goethe University.
01 β€” CURRENT WORK

What I'm Working On

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Multi-Dialect Amharic Language ASR

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA) of OpenAI's Whisper model targeting regional dialects of Amharic, a low-resource language spoken by 80 million people. Features custom script normalization pipelines and low-VRAM deployment setups to accurately parse crowdsourced African regional audio datasets.

GitHub Repo
Whisper Large Transformers NLP LoRa(PEFT) RAY-HPO pipeline
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Home Lab & Private Cloud

Building a comprehensive home lab infrastructure with private cloud capabilities for self-hosting services, running ML experiments, and learning enterprise-level DevOps and Cyber security practices.

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Proxmox Docker Kubernetes attack simulation OPNSense Networking
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AI Safety Research Paper

Contributing to AI safety seminar by investigating alignment problems, robustness challenges, and ethical considerations in deploying large language models and AI systems.

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AI Ethics Safety Presentation and Paper Alignment
02 β€” EXPERTISE

What I Do

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Data Science & Analysis

Extracting meaningful patterns from complex datasets using statistical analysis and visualization.

Python Pandas Plotly Power BI
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NLP & Machine Learning

Building intelligent systems that understand and process human language with state-of-the-art models.

SpaCy ParlBERT flan-t5 WhisperX scikit-learn
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Web Scraping

Automated data collection and extraction from web sources for analysis and research.

Jsoup Beautiful Soup
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Backend Development

Creating robust server-side applications and RESTful APIs with modern technologies.

Java MongoDB REST APIs
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Education & Mentoring

Sharing knowledge and helping others master mathematics and programming concepts.

Math Tutoring Code Mentoring
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Projects Completed
5+
Technologies Mastered
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Passion for Learning
03 β€” PROJECTS

Featured Work

DimABSA
NLP Publication

Transformer-Based Sentiment Analysis

Advanced sentiment analysis using DimABSA (Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis) with transformer architectures for nuanced emotion detection and aspect-level sentiment extraction. Accepted & Published at SemEval 2026.

DimABSA Transformers NLP BERT flan-t5
GitHub Repo Read Paper
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Data Analytics

Tesla Stock & Revenue Dashboard

Interactive dashboard analyzing Tesla's financial performance using real-time SEC data. Features comprehensive stock price tracking and revenue analysis with dynamic visualizations.

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NLP Pipeline

Java-Based NLP System

Complete NLP pipeline featuring web scraping, UIMA framework integration, WhisperX audio transcription, and RESTful API for seamless data processing and analysis.

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Machine Learning

Fake News Classifier

Real-time news article classification system using NLP and machine learning. Built with Streamlit for instant predictions and user-friendly interface.

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04 β€” CONTACT

Let's Connect

Get in touch for collaborations or just a friendly hello

Currently based in Frankfurt, Germany. Open to opportunities in data science, machine learning, and software development.