Beimnet Guta
About
Beimnet Bekele Guta is an Ethiopian engineer who earned a BSc in Software Engineering (AI Stream) at Addis Ababa University with the highest major GPA in the Engineering School.
He worked as an assistant lecturer at Addis Ababa University where he taught data structures and algorithms. Beimnet contributed to AI projects on coffee disease and cancer detection at the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute.
He also led Africa’s largest AI hackathon through A2SV. He was part of a team implementing AI-driven solutions to expand loan access for women and underserved groups at Kifiya Financial Technology.
Beimnet acquired a master's degree at the University of Michigan where his research focused on continual learning models. He is pursuing an MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence at the University of Cambridge after which he plans to work on NLP research and training programs to upskill African professionals in AI and machine learning.