Asmelash Teka Hadgu

Asmelash Teka Hadgu

CTO

Lesan

Asmelash Teka Hadgu is the cofounder and CTO of Lesan, a company whose mission is to democratize access to the web for millions of people. At Lesan, he has built state-of-the-art machine translation systems to and from Tigrinya, Amharic, and English. Asmelash’s PhD research is in the area of machine learning where he designed algorithms that leverage the social web for applications in scholarly communication, crisis communication, and natural language processing for low resource languages.