Scholar
Kale-ab Tessera
Google Scholar ID: EB5CtIYAAAAJ
PhD Student, University of Edinburgh
Citations & Impact
Citations
84
H-index
5
i10-index
3
Publications
13
Co-authors
8
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Aug 2025: Co-Programme Chair for the Deep Learning Indaba and Head of Practicals and Tutorials in Kigali, Rwanda.
- Jul 2024: Awarded scholarship to attend CIFAR DLRL Summer School in Toronto, Canada.
- Aug 2023: Served as PC member and Practicals Chair for Deep Learning Indaba notebooks 2023.
- Aug 2022: Co-organised the ML Efficiency Workshop at DLI; served as PC member and Practicals Chair for DLI notebooks 2022.
- Aug 2019: Won Best Poster award (1 out of 194) at Deep Learning Indaba, sponsored by Microsoft.
- Delivered talks and taught courses, including 'Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning' (Apr 2023, University of Pretoria & Indaba X Ghana) and 'Introduction to ML' (Jun 2022, Africa to Silicon Valley; Jul 2024, DLI).
- Co-hosts the UOE RL reading group since Jan 2024 (with YouTube presence); relaunched RL & Agents Reading Group in Aug 2025.
- Attended major conferences including ICLR 2023 (Kigali), NeurIPS 2019 (Vancouver), UK Multi-Agent Systems Symposium 2025 (London), and RLC 2025 (Edmonton).
