Yeabsira Tesfaye

CS student at Beijing Institute of Technology and software engineer with 4 years of product development experience. Researching RL, continual learning, AI personalization. I also love building AI applications, LLM agents, and developer tools.

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02 / EDUCATION

Learning edge of intelligence.

01 / BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

BSc, Computer Science & Technology

Beijing Municipal Government Scholarship recipient.
Relevant courses: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence; Brain Science & Brain-Inspired Intelligence; Deep Reinforcement Learning.

02 / TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY

Summer School for Generative AI

Relevant coursework and lectures:Jie Tang: The Road to AGI; Zhiyuan Liu: LLM Agents; Yuxiao Dong: LLMs and Multimodal Models; Wenguang Chen: Distributed Systems for Large Models.

03 / PUBLICATIONS

Selected publications.

03 ITEMS

01

How you say it matters: Personalizing LLM responses via dual time-scale closed-loop adaptation

Tesfaye, Y. M. · 2026 · Under review, Transactions on Machine Learning Research

02

Human State Interface infrastructure

Tesfaye, Y. M. & Synheart AI Team · 2026 · White paper

03

AM-SDS Nexus 7: Autonomous Martian seed deployment system

Hachelaf, M. Z., Lin, K., Yeo, J. W. J., Su, Q. H., Santosa, C. J., Li, Z., Tesfaye, Y. M., et al. · 2025

04 / EXPERIENCE

Research, startups, and Industry.

2025—26

Research Intern @Synheart AI

Built emotion and stress inference pipelines from multimodal physiological data; contributed to affective model development and evaluation.

2024—25

Software Developer @Chiropedic Mattress Ltd

Led a two-developer team maintaining six e-commerce sites across Australian retail brands, improving conversion through experimentation and performance work.

2021—24

Senior Web Designer & Developer @Yeab Future

Led five developers delivering websites, e-commerce platforms, and business systems for the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia, Arifpay, and Tradenet USA.

2022—24

Co-Founder & CEO @Gofere Travels

Led product direction, customer discovery, technical implementation, and go-to-market for a travel-booking startup.

05 / PROJECTS + CLIENTS

Things made to be used.

OPEN SOURCE

01

PathoFusion

Histopathological image classification for breast cancer diagnosis.RESEARCH / COMPUTER VISION

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syni-cli

Persona-driven, schema-validated LLM SDK.OPEN SOURCE / LLM

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pichu

Open-source terminal coding agent.OPEN SOURCE / DEVELOPER TOOL

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Rubric AI

AI-powered code evaluation platform.PRODUCT / EDUCATION

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Arqitect

Agentic collaborative system-design workspace.OPEN SOURCE / AGENTS

+ 25 CLIENTS

From Addis Ababa to Melbourne.

Software and web work for startups, institutions, and global brands.SEE CLIENT PORTFOLIO ↓

CLIENT PORTFOLIO

U.S. Embassy in EthiopiaFlawless EventsAFCA1888ECArifpayNiger Data LabTradenet USANerd EthiopiaLersha AgroEnkopa SummitChiropedic Mattress FactorySleep RepublicSleepFirmBedInABoxEcoKidsYinahlaEuro Truck PartsShare ETHind GroupInnobiz-KAfrican MosaiqueAM EditR&D EthiopiaKilimanjaro VenturesEthiopian Cybersecurity AssociationNedPlus

06 / RECOGNITION

Signals worth looking.

2026 Second Prize, 16th National College Student E-commerce Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship Challenge

2025 Innovation & Entrepreneurship Talent Award, Beijing Institute of Technology

2025 Third Prize, Qingju AI “Artificial Intelligence+” Special Competition

2024—Present Beijing Municipal Government Scholarship