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About Surafel Melaku LAKEW

Surafel M. Lakew is an applied scientist at Amazon AWS AI Labs, since 2020. He completed his Ph.D. at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler HLT-MT research lab and at the University of Trento ICT-Doctoral School, advised by Marcello Federico. His thesis, Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages, investigates approaches to improve the performance of neural machine translation models for language pairs without large-scale training data.

After obtaining his bachelor’s degree from Jimma University, he worked as an assistant lecturer at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. Before starting his Ph.D., he received his M.Sc. in computer science from the University of Venice under the supervision of Prof. Marcello Pelillo and Prof. Andrea Prati, and an MBA from Bologna Business School in Green Management and Sustainable Businesses.