Dubai, UAE · Roots in Addis Ababa
Abel
Samuel
Incoming electrical engineering student working on satellite data, health-tech, and putting technology in the hands of people who need it most.
Dubai, UAE · Roots in Addis Ababa
Incoming electrical engineering student working on satellite data, health-tech, and putting technology in the hands of people who need it most.
I'm a graduate of Dubai British School — A-Levels in Mathematics, Physics, and Business — now heading to university to study electrical engineering. Most of what I do sits at one intersection: engineering and access — who gets technology, who doesn't, and what changes when they do.
That thread runs through everything on this page. Researching electricity recovery in Tigray using satellite imagery. Building a computer lab for at-risk youth in Addis Ababa. Interviewing engineers from developing countries about how they use their skills to serve their communities. I was born into two worlds — Dubai and Ethiopia — and I want my work to be a bridge between them.
Off the clock: self-taught pianist since 2018, competitive tennis player, and former captain of my school's rocketry team.
After conflict cut power to millions in Tigray, Ethiopia, the question was simple and hard: where has electricity actually come back? In this NYU-supervised project, I built a pipeline that reads the answer from space — using satellite nightlight imagery to track which communities are lighting up again.
Google Earth Engine + Python workflow for collecting and processing satellite nightlight data across the region over time.
Machine learning applied to large-scale imagery datasets to separate signal from noise and surface temporal recovery patterns.
A data-visualization dashboard presenting electricity access metrics and recovery insights — currently in progress.
// Shining Tigray Project — NYU-supervised independent research, 2025
NYU Stern Venture Fellowship
Worked across the stack of an early-stage health-tech platform: Python for health-tech applications, competitive market research across global markets, bilingual content and localization strategy, QA testing and debugging with the engineering team, and user onboarding — with findings presented to leadership.
Taught by Stanford & MIT alumni
Studied computer vision, natural language processing, deep learning, and recommendation systems. Completed and presented a project on engineering applications of AI. Received the program's Excellence Award for Exceptional Performance.
TurTul Manufacturing
Hands-on factory floor work with a sustainability mandate. Trained 350+ workers on sorting systems and helped implement a dual-stage quality control conveyor process — reducing production waste by 10%.
Dubai, UAE
Rotated through sales, procurement, engineering, and supply chain. Supported quote preparation and supplier communication for international projects, and analyzed inventory management through stockyard visits.
Dubai British School
Led a multidisciplinary team through design, construction, and flight testing of high-performance rockets — coordinating launch operations and using telemetry data to refine each design iteration.
Conversations with engineers from developing countries about their journeys — and how they use technology to serve their communities. Guests so far have built power-outage trackers for Puerto Rico, led COVID-19 data-science work, and brought STEM education to thousands of kids in Ethiopia. Watch on YouTube →
From Puerto Rico to MIT and Georgia Tech — aerospace, public data science, and building LuzPR, Puerto Rico's power outage tracker.
Watch episode Ep. 02 · Aug 2025Chemical engineering meets statistics and public health — data-driven work at Medtronic and Verizon, and data science during COVID-19.
Watch episode Ep. 03 · Aug 2025The founder of STEM for Kids Ethiopia on reaching 4,000+ students and why curiosity-driven learning is critical for Africa's future.
Watch episodeFounded a technology education program for at-risk youth in Addis Ababa, with Salesians Don Bosco Ethiopia. Sourced and donated laptops, tablets, and Arduino boards to establish a computer lab, then built a curriculum combining computer literacy with hands-on electronics — and mentored students through it.
Founded a sustainable clothing donation program serving communities across Ethiopia. Multi-year collection drives from Dubai-based networks, partnerships with local Ethiopian charitable organizations, and end-to-end logistics for international shipments.
Beyond the work — self-taught pianist since 2018 with a repertoire spanning classical, contemporary, and traditional genres; competitive tennis player training under professional coaching in Dubai since 2020.