Kaalkidan Sahele

DPhil student — University of Oxford
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Research & Activities

Kaalkidan Sahele presenting at SIDur Symposium
University of Oxford — DPhil Student & Graduate Teaching Assistant
Oct 2025 - Present
Department of Computer Science
Supervisor: Prof. Bernardo Cuenca Grau & Prof. Ian Horrocks
Previously: University of Durham — MSc / MEng
Sep 2021 - Jun 2025
Computer Science
First Class Honours
Conferences
MPLS AI & Ethics Conference
January 2026
“Towards Safe & Transparent Graph Neural Networks in Medicine” (Poster)
Academic Talks
OAISI Technical Roundtable
Nov 2025
“Revealing Fragile Links and Unsafe Reasoning with Uncertainty Awareness in GNNs” [Project Here]
SIDur PGR Symposium
7th Feb 2025 - Following work at the University of Toronto.
Pulse-Based Implementations of Encoder Circuits in Quantum Machine Learning
Quantum Tea Seminar — University of Toronto
Jun 2024
Pulse-Based Representations of Quantum Machine Learning [Project Here]

Community work

GitHub Campus Expert activities, workshops, hackathons, outreach.

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GitHub Campus Expert

Contributing to tech communities in Durham and Oxford

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DUWiT Hacks Co-Founder and 1st Lead Organiser

2025

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DurHack 9 Strategy Organiser (Head of Hacker Experience)

DurHack innit (2024)

Awards & Honours

  • Oxford Graduate Scholarship (through the Black Academic Futures programme)
  • Scott Logic Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Durham Computer Science Community 2025
  • Professor Sue Black Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Durham University Women in Technology
  • MITACS Certificate of Completion 2024
  • Durham Inspired Coleman Scholarship 2021-25 (one recipient per cohort)

Irrelevant Awards

  • Spelling Bee Champion 2014 (St. Theresa Catholic Primary School)

Contact

Email

kaalkidan.sahele@lmh.ox.ac.uk

Links

GitHub · LinkedIn · Google Scholar · ORCiD