Second Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
29 October -2 November 2022

Dr Rahel Bekele Teklegiorgis (Participant)

Being the principal investigator for APHREA-DST project which is the member of the consortium of DSI-Africa projects, Dr. Rahel is currently an associate professor at the School of Information Science, Addis Ababa University. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science in 2005 from the Department of Informatik, University of Hamburg, Germany where she worked on machine learning techniques to make predictive models on student behaviors. Her M.Sc in 1992 is from the then School of Information Studies for Africa at AAU currently known as the School of Information Science. In fact she is the first female from Ethiopia to graduate with M.Sc. in Information Science. Her undergraduate degree is in Statistics where upon completion, she joined Addis Ababa University as a graduate assistant. That was almost three decades ago - in 1988. Since then she has been working in various academic positions. In addition to teaching, she has also served in key management positions - Dean of School of Information Science (February 2010 to May 2012)