Abebe Tegene

I am Abebe Tegene, currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Data Science for Social Impact Research Group at the University of Pretoria, working under the guidance of Professor Vukosi Marivate and Professor Mapundi Banda. I completed my PhD in August 2024, supervised by Professor Qiao Liu at UESTC, China. My doctoral research concentrated on enhancing deep learning methodologies for recommender systems, focusing on optimizing personalization and user engagement by incorporating contextual data and analyzing user behavior. Areas of Interest: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Recommender Systems, Data Analysis, Data Engineering, and Big Data Analytics.