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kidist-amde/README.md

Hi there 👋

  • I’m Kidist, a PhD student in the Information Retrieval Lab (IRLab) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) supervised by Prof. dr. Maarten de Rijke and Dr. Andrew Yates. My primary research focuses on Generative methods for Information Retrieval. I'm passionate about Generative Modelling, Multi-modal Learning, and Reinforcement Learning.

  • I'm a lifelong learner 🌱.

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Education and Experience

  • 🔭 Currently a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (2023 - Present)
  • 🧑🏽‍🔬🧪 Data Science Research Intern, NANOVERY, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom (Apr 2022 - Oct 2022)
  • 👩🏽‍🎓 M.Sc in Data Science at University of Trento, Italy (2020-2022)
  • 👩🏽‍🎓 M.Sc in Machine Intelligence, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS-Rwanda) (2019-2020)
  • 👩🏽‍🏫🥼 Assistant Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Gondar, Ethiopia (2017-2019)
  • 📚 BSc in Computer Science at University of Gondar, Ethiopia (2013-2017)

Volunteer work

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  1. ddro ddro Public

    We introduce the direct document relevance optimization (DDRO) for training a pairwise ranker model. DDRO encourages the model to focus on document-level relevance during generation

    Python 17 2

  2. amharic-ir-benchmarks amharic-ir-benchmarks Public

    Official codebase for the ACL 2025 Findings paper: Optimized Text Embedding Models and Benchmarks for Amharic Passage Retrieval.

    Jupyter Notebook 11 1

  3. Adv-KD Adv-KD Public

    Adv-KD: Adversarial Knowledge Distillation for Faster Diffusion Sampling.

    Python 4 1

  4. gabriben/awesome-generative-information-retrieval gabriben/awesome-generative-information-retrieval Public

    681 49

  5. Balanced-Face-Dataset Balanced-Face-Dataset Public

    Balanced Face Dataset: Guiding StyleGAN to Generate Labeled Synthetic Face Image Dataset for Underrepresented Group

    Jupyter Notebook

  6. Space-Time-Cube-visualization Space-Time-Cube-visualization Public

    Studies on Human Behavior - Geovisualization of Spatio-temporal data is a very promising topic, especially for social sciences. It is possible to use a space-time cube to reveal activity, travel pa…

    Jupyter Notebook 6 2