Distractors are the Real Enemy: Visual Distraction Adversarial Perturbations on SAM2-Based Video Tracking and Segmentation [New]
A. D. Gebremedhin, M. Alansari, W. Shehieb, M. Naseer
WACV, 2027
Adonay D. Gebremedhin
Software | ML | Computer Vision
Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering undergraduate and Researcher with interests in grounded multimodal learning, robust visual perception, and reinforcement learning. Research experience spans medical imaging, visual tracking, and segmentation, complemented by practical experience in developing, evaluating, and deploying practical intelligent systems.
Research Experience
E-MAPS: Event-Based Promptable Video Segmentation with Memory-as-Prompt [New]
A. D. Gebremedhin*, M. Alansari*, W. Shehieb, M. Naseer, H. AlMarzouqi, S. Javed, N. Werghi
WACV, 2027
CheXGround: Anatomical Region Tokens for Grounded Longitudinal Chest X-ray Interpretation
A. D. Gebremedhin, W. Shehieb, S. Alansari, M. Alansari, M. Naseer, S. Javed, N. Werghi
BMVC, 2026
Enhancing Human-AI Interaction through Multi-Agent Explainability
A. D. Gebremedhin, W. Shehieb
Zayed University Student Research Conference (Short Paper), 2025
Education
2023–Present
Ajman University
United Arab EmiratesBSc. Computer Engineering
CGPA: 4.0
UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Research Fully-funded Scholarship
Work Experience
Jun. 2025–Present
Jun. 2026–Present
Research Assistant
Conduct funded research in hyperspectral histopathology, contributing to experimental design, model development, and evaluation for hyperspectral tissue imaging.
Feb. 2026–Aug. 2026
Software Developer Intern, Innovation Center
Led MVP development and provided technical support for university-incubated startups, transforming early-stage ideas into functional products.
Jun. 2025–May 2026
Vice President of the Computer Engineering Club
Led club initiatives by coordinating technical and community events, workshops, and competitions, managing four committee members, and increasing engineering student engagement in technical skill and portfolio building.
Jun. 2025–May 2026
Cabinet Member at IEEE Student Chapter
Managed the chapter’s digital presence through website development and CI/CD while growing social engagement through consistent content creation and platform optimization.
Jun. 2025–Aug. 2025
Eastern Al Maha, EMCO
KuwaitJun. 2025–Aug. 2025
Computer Vision Intern
Developed and deployed three computer vision models for automated retail shelf auditing, reducing inference latency by about half and improving one model’s accuracy by 27% through careful data curation and augmentation.
Jun. 2024–Oct. 2024
Smallcap.ai
RemoteJun. 2024–Oct. 2024
Artificial Intelligence/Backend Intern
Led cross-functional integration across AI, backend, frontend, and database teams while developing web applications and machine learning solutions using Flask, React, and PyTorch.
Project Experience
PlanetWatch
Sep. 2025Third Place · Khalifa University SMAC Competition
Computer VisionMachine LearningGeospatial AI
An automated, scalable disaster response system using vision and machine learning.
CrewTailor
Aug. 2024Gemini API Developer Competition · Google
ReactFlaskLangChainLLMs
A web platform for building no-code, multi-agent LLM systems from scratch, created for the Gemini API Developer Competition.
Certifications
- Sequence Models & Convolutional Neural Networks, Deeplearning.ai
- CS50 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Harvard University
- CS50 Web Programming with Python & JS, Harvard University
- CS50 Introduction to Computer Science, Harvard University
Skills & Interests
Languages, Frameworks & Databases
PythonFlaskFastAPIReactPostgreSQLMongoDB
Machine Learning / AI
PyTorchHuggingFace