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## Hi, I am Abdu,

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I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Iowa State University in 2026, with a focus on Computer Vision and Machine Learning, particularly in Biomedical Image Analysis. Following a summer internship at JPMorgan Chase in 2025, I will be joining the firm full-time as an AI Associate.

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

-   **2026 :** Successfully defended my PhD dissertation 🎊
-   **2026 :** Our paper “**Proto4DME: Interpretable Cell Counting via Additive Prototype Density Decomposition and Optimal-Transport Coverage**” has been accepted at _The AHLI Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) 2026_.
-   **2025 :** Successfully passed my PhD Preliminary Examination 🎊
-   **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**

-   Jun 2025 – Aug 2025 **AI & Data Science Associate, JPMorgan and Chase**
    
    Enhanced and evaluated advanced graph-based fraud detection models using embeddings and neural networks to uncover previously undetected fraudulent behavior.
    
-   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 and implemented 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 [𝕏](https://twitter.com/_abdumhmd) if you’d like to chat.