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Hi, I am Abdurahman,

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I earned my M.Sc. in Computer Science from Iowa State University in 2024 and am currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Iowa State, focusing on Computer Vision and Machine Learning, particularly in Biomedical Image Analysis.

I am currently a Research and Teaching Assistant at Iowa State. In the summer of 2025, I completed an AI & Data Science Associate internship at JPMorgan Chase, focusing on risk modeling within the Consumer and Community Banking division.

Outside of research, I enjoy photography, soccer, and video games. Fun fact: Throughout my teens, becoming a professional soccer player was my ultimate goal. 😊


Updates

  • 2025 : Our paper “CellFMCount: A Fluorescence Microscopy Dataset, Benchmark, and Methods for Cell Counting” has been accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2025.
  • 2025 : Our paper “CountXplain: Interpretable Cell Counting with Prototype-Based Density Map Estimation” has been selected for oral presentation at the Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL) 2025 conference.
  • 2023 : Awarded Teaching Excellence Award from Iowa State University
  • 2023 : Our paper “IDCIA: Immunocytochemistry Dataset for Cellular Image Analysis” has been accepted to MMSys '23: Proceedings of the 14th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference
  • 2022: Our paper “Stronger is not better: Better Augmentations in Contrastive Learning for Medical Image Segmentation” has been accepted to the Black in AI conference co-located with NeurIPS 2022

Experience

  • May 2022 – Present Graduate Research Assistant, Iowa State University

    Developed machine learning models for cell counting and segmentation, mentored students, and contributed to research publications.

  • Summer 2023, Summer 2024 Data Science Lab Instructor, Ames National Laboratory

    Taught data science concepts, led hands-on projects, and mentored students in a DOE bootcamp.

  • Aug 2021 – Present Graduate Teaching Assistant, Iowa State University

    Managed teaching assistants, automated grading, and supported a large programming course.

  • Oct 2018 – July 2019 Software Engineer, Modern Cyber Intel Consultancy PLC

    Developed and maintained an SMS system, analyzed operational data, and built websites for clients.

  • June 2017 – Sept 2017 Software Engineering Intern, Kifiya Financial Technologies PLC

    Designed a digital record-keeping system to improve efficiency and sustainability.

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, Iowa State University (Expected May 2026)
  • MS in Computer Science, Iowa State University (May 2024)
  • BS in Computer Software Engineering, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University (June 2018, GPA: 3.98, Gold Medal)

Get in touch

DM me on Twitter if you’d like to chat.