Ermias Andargie Walelgne (D.Sc. (Tech)) holds a Doctoral degree in Networking Technologies from Aalto university. Dr. Ermias successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled 'Performance and Usage Patterns of Mobile Networks' , with Professor Tommi Mikkonenin from Helsinki University serving as his opponent. He has been a Marie Curie Early-Stage Researcher in the Department of Communications and Networking- Aalto University, Finland. He has been advised by Prof. Jukka Manner and Prof. Jörg Ott. He has also collaborated with Dr. Vaibhav Bajpai at TUM.
Currently, he is employed at Ericsson as a Cloud & Networking Developer. Prior to joining Ericsson, he worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at CGI. He is keenly interested in software development and DevOps, with a specific focus on cloud and network automation. Additionally, he has a strong interest in internet measurements, mobile data analysis, machine learning, characterizing wireless network performance and data modeling, user experience, and QoE modeling. His work is funded by the Marie Curie ITN project - METRICS.
He has been a visiting Ph.D. student at the Chair of Connected Mobility at the Technical University of Munich during different periods (2017, '18, '19) and at Elisa - Helsinki in 2016 and 2017. He has been awarded several student travel grants, including CoNEXT'15, IMC'17, NOMS'18, TMA'19, and IMC'19 and was successful in his application for RIPE 77.
He obtained his BSc degree in Computer Science in 2008 from Hawassa University, Ethiopia. From September 2008 to 2010, he worked as a graduate assistant at the University of Gondar . Following that, he served as an assistant lecturer at Bahir Dar University, Institute of Technology, from September 2010 to 2011. He pursued his MSc degree at the University of Trento, Italy, specializing in data management and internet technologies under the guidance of Prof. Themis Palpanas. Additionally, he gained valuable experience as an intern student from August 2012 to November 2012 at the University of Illinois Research Center (Advanced Science Research Centre (ADSC)) in Singapore, where he held the position of Junior Researcher.
