Asst. Prof. Behailu Getachew has been doing his PhD degree in Software Engineering at Mekelle University with Joint Program in Collaboration on Oldenburg University-Germany. He has assumed the post of Post Graduate Coordinator, Director, and Research Coordinator in Mekelle University, and delivering several courses for graduate and advising research works for post graduate computer science students. He has published several papers in the areas of software quality aspects, Machine Learning especially Neural and Bayesian Networks, Knowledge Representation, Cloud Computing, Software Testing, etc. At present, he is working at Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering Department. His main tasks are delivering the research and teaching courses for both senior under and post graduate software engineering students.

Research in Meta Modelling, Software Quality Assurance, Behaviour-Driven Development, Software Requirement Engineering, Machine learning especially on Neural Network, Bayesian Network, and optimization with Evolutionary algorithms