ACCESS Laboratory Members

Tesfamichael Getahun  received his Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Bahir Dar University in 2005. He later received his Master of Technology in Electrical Engineering – Electronic Systems, IIT Bombay, India, in 2005,  and his Master of  Science in Robotics and Automation  from Aalto University, Finland, in 2014. In 2021, he completed his PhD studies on image-based navigation of autonomous vehicles at North Carolina A&T State University. His research interests include “Control and Navigation of Autonomous cars,” “Computer Vision,” “Sensing and Perception,” and “Sensor Fusion.” He is a member of Autonomous Cooperative Control of Emergent Systems of Systems (ACCESS) Lab . 

• PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering, NCA&T State Univ, Greensboro, NC; 07/2022

• Nanodegree in Self-Driving Car Engineer & Intro to Self-Driving Cars, Udacity ;  09/2019

• MSc in Space Robotics and Automation, Aalto University, Finland; 08/2014

• MTech in Electrical Engineering – Electronic Systems, IIT Bombay, India;  08/2009

• BSc In Electrical Engineering, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia;  07/2005

• 2nd place, Aurdodrive Challenge 2019

• 1st place in the College of Engineering Graduate Poster Research Competition, 2019

• Nanodegree in Self-Driving Car Engineer & Intro to Self-Driving Cars, Udacity, 2019 

• Erasmus Mundus Scholarship from Erasmus Mundus Master Course (EMMC-SpaceMaster Consortium) to study Space Science and Technology for 2 years [Sep 2012 – Aug 2014]

• Scholarship from Ethiopian Ministry of Education to study MTech in Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) [July 2007 - Aug 2009 ]

• Certificate of Appreciation award from Bahir Dar Institute of Technology - Bahir Dar University for demonstrating good performance on the teaching-learning process in Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty [Sep 2014 – Jun 2015]

• Certificate in Advanced programming in C++ from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) [July 2008]

• Getahun, Tesfamchael, Ali Karimoddini, and Priyantha Mudalige. "A deep learning approach for lane detection." In 2021 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), pp. 1527-1532. IEEE, 2021. 

• Tesfamichael Getahun, Ali Karimoddini, Leila Hashemi Beni, Priyantha Mudalige, “An Enhanced Lane Detection Algorithm Based on Gabor Filter,” The 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2018), 2018.  [Demonstration,  Presentation]