Position
Assistant Teaching Professor
Office
Contact Info
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
email: zyalew@umbc.edu
website: https://sites.google.com/view/zizutg-/home
Research Areas
ad-hoc, mesh, cognitive radio, vehicular, machine learning, and IoT networks
Biography
Yalew Zelalem Jembre (Ph.D.) received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, in 2007; and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Ajou University, in 2012 and 2017, respectively. From 2008 to 2010, he worked as a Fixed Line Next Generation Network (FL-NGN) Engineer at a Telecom Company, ZTE (H.K.) Ethiopian Branch. He worked as an Assistant Professor in Daegu, South Korea at Kyungpook National University, from Sep. 2017 to Dec. 2018, and at Keimyung University, from Mar. 2019 to Jan. 2024. Between Jul. 2024 – Jul. 2025, he was an Assistant Teaching Professor at Loyola University Maryland, MD, USA. Currently, he is an Assistant Teaching Professor at UMBC. Dr. Yalew is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Hunan International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Intelligent network, since Jan 2022. As an academic, he published multiple articles in international journals and proceedings. He received the Best Paper Award from the Journal of Communications and Networks, in 2015. His research area is in wireless communication, mainly focusing on IEEE 802.11 based ad-hoc, mesh, cognitive radio, vehicular, and IoT networks.