Israel Goytom
| Israel Goytom | |
|---|---|
 israelgoytom.jpeg Israel Goytom in 2017 | |
| Native name | እስራኤል ጎይቶም |
| Born | Israel Goytom Birhane 1995/05/15 Ethiopia |
| 🏡 Residence | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Ethiopian |
| Other names | Izzy |
| 🏫 Education | Microelectronics Science and Engineering |
| 💼 Occupation | Co-founder and CTO |
| 📆 Years active | 2020 - present |
| 🏢 Organisation | Chapa |
| Known for | TechnoKing |
| Works | Payment APIs, Eyezon Ethiopia, MyGerd |
| Title | CTO |
Israel Goytom (15, May 1995) is an Ethiopian entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CTO of Chapa[1][2], which he started with his friend, Nael Hailemariam in 2020. He won different awards while he was undergraduate student. In 2018 he was named "The African Inventor in China" for his A device for detecting similar proportions between micro-structures on PVC[3] work.
Early Life[edit]
Israel Goytom was born and grew up in Ethiopia, where he spent most of his time playing piano. He got his first computer when he was ten years old and he began writing code at the age of twelve. When he was in high school there was an internet cafe where he spent most of his time
Career[edit]
Israel started writing different programs as fun projects. In 2010 he centralized school's registration system and awarded. In 2014 Israel sold AFTP (Automatic File Transfer Platform) a software which helps students to get their course materials from FTP server with out any manual intervention after that he developed an Anti-malware software and sold to Ethiopian private universities. Right before founding Chapa he was working in Yoshua Bengio's[4] lab MILA[5] on problems related to Humanitarian AI with post doc Kris Sakaran.
Academic and Engineering Projects[edit]
- Airbel Bot: A chatbot assistant to travel in complicated city in Marseille, France.
- Cloth classification for smart cloth bin (UN-SDG Project)
- Demeter: Live food cam for nutrition facts inside food.
- An intelligence device use to detect and auto focus on 3D micro-structures from ordinary optical microscope.
- device for detecting similar proportions between micro-structures on PVC.
- Transfer nature’s colour to nano-scale microscopy images using machine learning.
- Stock prediction using RNNs.
- Self driving car using supervised learning.
- SMU file oriented anti malware.
- Automated File Transfer Platform (AFTP).
Awards, Academic Achievements and Funds[edit]
- Chinese University Hong Kong Ph.D.fellowship summer workshop
- Chinese Government Full Scholarship Winner
- Top 5 student at Tsinghua international summer school 2019 DCST
- Zhejiang province Full Scholarship Winner
- SRIP Student Funds for Research
- Xin Miao Student Research Fund
- Ningbo City Scholarship Winner
- European Space Agency (ESA) PROBA-V Super Resolution 2nd prize winner[6]
- EPAM Hackathon 3rd prize winner with Demeter
- Outstanding student award at Tsinghua university Deep learning summer school
- Provincial innovation of internet award GOLD 1st prize winner
- Provincial physics innovation competition 3rd Prize winner
- Outstanding undergraduate student award
- Prestigious high school student award
Researches and Publications[edit]
- HighRes-net: Multi-Frame Super-Resolution by Recursive Fusion
- Forecasting Extremes in Time Series for Climate Change
- Nanoscale Microscopy Images Colourization Using Neural Networks
- A Machine learning approach to detect and classify 3D two-photon polymerization Microstructures using optical microscopy images
Personal Life[edit]
Israel lives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is a human right and climate activist. According to Israel, he reads books and is interested in a broad range of subjects on history, technology, engineering, philosophy and psychology. He sporadically share his taught and opinions to his twitter[7].
References[edit]
- ↑ [1] Chapa Financial Technology S.C [2] Ethiopia’s innovators are trying to find purpose in a time of war
- ↑ Chapa
- ↑ [3] 一种检测PVC上微结构之间相似比例的装置- 中国专利数据库 - 中国知网
- ↑ [4] Wikipedia contributors. (2022, February 11). Yoshua Bengio. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22:38, March 23, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yoshua_Bengio&oldid=1071126036
- ↑ [5] Wikipedia contributors. "Mila (research institute)." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 28 Sep. 2021. Web. 23 Mar. 2022.
- ↑ [6] PROBA-V Super Resolution
