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| Name | Tewodros Wondifraw Ayalew |
| Label | PhD Student |
| tewodrosayalew [at] uchicago [dot] edu | |
| Url | https://github.com/tedywond |
| Summary | PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Chicago with experience in computer vision, machine learning, and plant phenotyping. |
Education
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2022.09 - Present Chicago, Illinois
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2018.09 - 2020.11 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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2011.09 - 2016.07 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Work
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2021.10 - Present Machine Learning Engineer (Research Technician)
Global Institute for Food Security
Developing computer vision methods for phenotyping plant roots to extract information predictive of yield.
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2021.01 - 2021.09 Machine Learning Engineer (Research Associate)
University of Saskatchewan and Honda R&D
Worked on improving semantic segmentation models for autonomous navigation under adverse weather using GAN-based approaches.
Publications
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2025.04 PROGRESSOR: A Perceptually Guided Reward Estimator with Self-Supervised Online Refinement
Submitted to CVPR 2025
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2025.03
Awards
- 2022
Crerar Fellowship
University of Chicago
- 2020
Best Paper Award
Awarded for 'Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Plant Organ Counting' at CVPPP Workshop, ECCV 2020.
Volunteer
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2018.06 - Present Programming Instructor
AddisCoder
Designed and taught a summer course in Scratch and Python for high school students.