Getachew Hailemariam Mengesha

Academic professional with extensive expertise in higher education, specializing in developing innovative teaching methods and conducting groundbreaking research. Renowned for fostering collaborative learning environment and consistently achieving positive educational outcomes. Proven ability to adapt to evolving academic needs and effectively guide teams towards shared goals.

• AI and Machine Learning in Finance Fraud Detection and Loan Default Prediction.
• Socioeconomic Impacts, Technical Considerations, and Legal Issues of AI
• Social Media Use Psychosocial, Legal, and Technical Solutions.
• E-health Systems

• Teaching and Research
• April 2024 to date Associate Professor, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
• July 2015 to March 2024 Assistant Professor, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
• December 1, 2007 to July 2015 Lecturer, Addis Ababa University College of Natural Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
• July 1998 up to Nov.2006, Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia
• Admin and Leadership Responsibilities
• September 2010 to Nov 2011, Acting President, Andinet International University College. Oversee and lead the overall tasks of the University College
• October 2007 to August 2010 Program Coordinator, Andinet International University College, Addis Ababa. Major Accomplishment: Facilitated and finalized the full accreditation process of all the degree and diploma programs of the University; Reviewing the curricula of the College, Handling Registrar duties of the college, Preparing the academic calendar and scheduling the academic programs of the college, Recruiting full time as well as part time staff for the university college etc.
• July 1992-Sept 1996 head, Audit service Jimma Institute of Health Sciences, Jimma, Ethiopia
• May 1991-June 1992, Junior Accountant, Jimma Institute of Health Sciences
• September 1990-April 1991, Personnel officer, Jimma Institute of Health Sciences
• ICT Development Office of Jimma University from Sept 1998 up to Nov 2006.
• Certified Management Consultant
• I have successfully completed over 20 different consultancy projects listed in section two of this CV for private companies, NGO and governmental organizations.

• Strategic Plan Development for Oromia Development Association (ODA), March 2023
• Strategic Plan Development for Ethiopian Academy of Sciences (EAS), December 2022
• End Term Evaluation Community Health Education, Capacity and Knowledge Building (CHECK) Project. UNAIDS, March 31, 2020, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Comprehensive feasibility for establishing Women Sanitary Pad Manufacturing Plant, Zer-Ethiopia, November 2016 to February 2017.
• Comprehensive Feasibility Study for the establishment of an Oil Processing Plant for Kesibe PLC, April 2016 to August 2016
• Business plan and Comprehensive feasibility study. Master’s International Hotel. August to November 2016.
• Jonson and Johnson Towards Improved Economic & Sexual Reproductive Health Outcomes for Adolescent Girls (TESFA), CARE International, Ethiopia November 11, 2015
• Information Systems Project Management Training. Ethio telecom. August to September 2015
• Records Management and Archives Training, Development Bank of Ethiopia. March 20-25, 2015
• Midterm evaluation on the linking initiatives, stakeholders, and knowledge to achieve gender-sensitive livelihood security (linkages) program (Abdishie project), CARE International, Ethiopia February 4, 2015
• Assessment of New Technology and Social Media use for Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Save the Children International, June 15, 2014- Sept 15, 2014
• Institutionalization of Business Information and Investment Opportunities for Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Associations (AACCSA). August 2013- March 2014
• Sesame Production and Processing Feasibility Study, Repi-Wilmar Industries PLC, July to October 2014
• Comprehensive feasibility study for the establishment of Lebu International School. February 2013 to April 2016
• Feasibility study for the establishment of Boarding School at Gondar July-2013- December 2013.
• Organizational reconsideration study for Dynamic Office System. July 2010- Sept 2011
• Feasibility study for the establishment of Ubuntu Center for Entrepreneurship, Dynamic Office System, July, 2011
• Fleet Management System for Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation June 2010
• Health Management Information Systems training for CRDA Members organizations. October 15-30, 1999
• Health Program Management Training. IRISH Aid Assisted Zones employees from Tigrai, and SNNAP regions. April 20-May 5, 1999

• Technical University of Dresden, Germany, Interdisciplinary Summer School on Inclusive Innovationin Healthcare, September 21st -26th, 2014
• Advanced PhD Research Training and Exchange Visit, Bentley University, MA, USA September 2012 to Nov 2012
• Project Management and Advanced Research Methodology Training focusing on project document preparation, Research design, instrument development, data analysis, and curriculum development from Sept 25-Nov 13,2006 at the University of Hull, England
• Cisco Certified Network Administration (CCNA) Training at Torque IT, Johannesburg, South Africa, July 23-August 5,2005; focusing on Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices and Designing Cisco Networks
• Open Distance e-Learning workshop and Seminar, May 28-June 4,2005, African Virtual University (AVU) Nairobi, Kenya
• LAN Installation and Data Security and Disaster Recovery Training, Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany, March 25- April 10, 2003
• PC troubleshooting (with emphasis on the hardware part), 19 July to August 1999, Infotech, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Auditing for development enterprise, 15 May 1995 to 19 May 1995, Ethiopian Management Institute, Debrezeit, Ethiopia

• Aerato, J. N., Mengesha,G.H. (2025). E-Service Value Assessment of Trade and Industry Portal. International Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. 14:6.
• Mengesha, G. H., Belay, E. G., & Adams, R. (2024). Social justice considerations in developing and deploying AI in Africa. Data & Policy, 6, e65.
• Mengesha, G. H., Belay, E.G, Adams, R. (2024). Technical Considerations for Designing, Developing, and Implementing AI Systems in Africa. In: Amoah, L. Examining the Rapid Advance of Digital Technology in Africa. IGI Global.
• Ayana, S. D., Mengesha, G. H., Musa, P. F., & Negash, S. (2024). Investigating the Effect of Organizational Culture on Knowledge Management Across a Large Banking Network in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM), 32(1), 1-32. G
• Abade, E., Mulugeta, W., Orowe, I., Mengesha, G.H., Weke, P., Bekele, R., ... & Berhane, K. (2024). A collaborative approach to advancing research and training in Public Health Data Science—challenges, opportunities, and lessons learnt. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 1474947.
• Mengesha, G. H., Belay, E.G., Asale, M.A. (2023). Legal Frameworks and Issues of Social Media Use for Politics. In: Yang, X.S., Sherratt, S., Dey, N., Joshi, A. (eds) Proceedings of Seventh International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 464. Springer, Singapore.
• Belay, E.G., Mengesha .G.H., Kifle, N. (2022). Dominant View and Perception of Artificial Intelligence in Developing Economy. In: Degen, H., Ntoa, S. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in HCI. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13336. Springer, Cham
• Mengesha, G.H, Richard, T. Watson, Solomon, Negash. (2021). Frugal Knowledge Sharing for Frugal Innovation Diffusion in Africa: The Church Woman and Related Model Journal of Global Information Management.29:6
• Elelefolios Getachew Belay, Mengesha, GH, and Moges Ayele. The Tributes and Perils of Social Media Use Practices in Ethiopian Socio-Political Landscape. 22ndInternational Conference on HCI, Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-24 July 2020.
• Mengesha, GH & Monic J. Garfield (2019): A contextualized IT adoption and use model for telemedicine in Ethiopia, Information Technology for Development, DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2018.1461057
• Mengesha, G. H., & Garfield. M.J. (2016). A Contextualized IT Adoption and Use Model for e-health: The Case of Telemedicine in Ethiopia. 22nd Americas Conference on Information Systems. August 11-13, 2016, San Diego.
• Mengesha, G. H., Garfield. M.J., Asfaw. A.K., Musa. P.F. A Preliminary Assessment Of Ethiopian Physicians Taste For Telemedicine: the Case of Black Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Twenty Second European Conference On Information Systems, Tel Aviv 2014
• Abera, A.A, Mengesha, G. H., and Musa, P. F. (2014). Assessment of Ethiopian Health Facilities Readiness for Implementation of Telemedicine. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. (34): 67. pp. 1209-1234.
• Mengesha,G.H, Garfield. M.J., Asfaw. A.K., Musa. P.F. Stakeholders Analysis of Ethiopian Telemedicine Projects: The case of Black Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Chicago, Illinois, August 15-17, 2013
• Mengesha,G.H, Garfield. M.J, Asfaw. A.K., Musa. P.F. In search of Insights for institutionalization of telemedicine in the Health Care System in Ethiopia.Proceedings of the Nineteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Chicago, Illinois, August 15-17, 2013.
• Mengesha. G.H, & Musa. P.F.Mobile health (m-health) for expanding health care services in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA): A Task-Technology Fit (TTF) perspective (Poster). Proceedings of the Eighteenth Conference on Information Systems, Seattle, Washington, August 9-12, 2012.
• Mengesha, G. H., and Musa. P.F. In search of enhanced Agricultural knowledge sharing framework for farmers in low-income countries: the case of Ethiopia. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Conference on Information Systems, Seattle, Washington, August 9-12, 2012
• Mengesha, G.H, Hill, S. and Sintayehu, D. Exploring Data mining Techniques and Algorithms for Predicting customer loyalty and loan default risk scenarios at Wisdom Microfinance, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. MEDEES’12, October 28-31, 2012, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Copyright 2012 ACM 978-1-4503-1755-9/10/10.
• Mengesha, G. H, & Vom Brocke, J. (2010).What Is Sustainability in Business Process Management? A Theoretical Framework and Its Application in the Public Sector of Ethiopia. Springer. BPM International Workshop and Education Track, Hoboken, NJ, USA, September 13-15, 2010
• Mengesha, G. H, Solomon, N. and Musa, P.F.In search of Insights from Community of Practice and Use of Telemedicine in Low-income Countries: The case of Ethiopia.Proceedings of the Sixteen Americas Conference on Information Systems, Lima, Peru, August 12-15, 2010.
• Mengesha, G. H, and Common, R. Public Sector Capacity Reform in Ethiopia: A Tale of Success in Two Ministries? Journal of Public Administration and Development: The International Journal of Management Research and Practice, John Wiley& Sons, Ltd. Vol. 27, No. 5. December 2007.
• Mengesha, G.H, and Common, R. The Civil Service Reform Program: Success in two Ministries, Hull Business School Research MemorandumSeries, University of Hull, Dec. 2006

The award was used to explore AI and Machine Learning Technologies to track Policy Compliance of Highly Trusted Parties (HTPs) and incidents of fraud at selected banking Institutions in Ethiopia. The study was conducted in partnership with a leading commercial bank in Ethiopia. The study was conducted as an action research where interim outcomes of the study were used to improve the bank's security management.