CURRICULUM VITAE

Alazar Wake Kore

Electrical Engineering Student · Sharjah, UAE

alazarwake@gmail.com · GitHub · LinkedIn

Education

Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE

B.Sc. Electrical Engineering Technology · Expected completion 2027

Control systems, instrumentation, industrial automation, signal processing, electrical machines, electronics, and renewable energy.

Engineering work

Wind turbine pitch control

Team coursework · MATLAB simulation study

Modeling a variable-speed wind turbine. Designing feedback that brings its response under control. Team contributor · Modeling, stability analysis, and controller design.

Electrical installations competition

Completed · Assessed competition installation

A complete electrical installation, assessed at 89.5/100 in the HCT Skills competition. Individual competitor · Installation, wiring, and testing.

Automated elevator control

Team coursework · PLC design and simulation

Three-floor elevator sequencing, floor requests, door logic, and interlocks in an industrial automation project. Team contributor · Industrial automation design.

Acoustic signal classification

Coursework · Experimental ML

From environmental recordings to spectrograms. Exploring how neural networks recognize sound. Audio processing and model comparison.

Solar-powered IoT aquaponics

Team research project · Maintained monitoring software

Solar-powered aquaponics design with ESP32 telemetry and a connected monitoring dashboard. Co-author · Embedded monitoring and renewable-energy integration.

Task-based PPE detection

In progress · Senior capstone

Comparing mask and footwear classifiers as a baseline for task-aware workshop PPE monitoring. Capstone contributor · Dataset preparation, model comparison, and evaluation.

Sahra Sphere

Team project · Physical prototype

A biomimetic greenhouse concept inspired by honeycomb geometry and resource-efficient growing. Co-author · Team design and physical prototype.

Decentralized credential verification

Systems project · Permissioned architecture

A permissioned architecture for anchoring engineering artifacts and verifying credentials. Portfolio and credential system design.

Analog window comparator

Coursework · Electronics prototype

Turning a temperature threshold into a working analog control circuit. Circuit synthesis, simulation, and bench testing.

AutomationHub

Live website · Interactive educational platform

An engineering publication and browser-based lab connecting industrial logic with practice. Creator and technical author.

Masar AI

Working web prototype · HCT National Hackathon finalist

A UAE travel-planning prototype connecting discovery, itineraries, and a digital travel passport. Team leadership · Product development.

ET Digital

Digital products · Live websites · Ongoing research

Habesha Eats and Love Grass Restaurant: live web projects built under ET Digital, alongside ongoing engineering research. Co-founder · ET Digital project work.

Technical skills

MATLAB / Simulink · Python / PyTorch / Librosa · C / C++ · ESP32 / Arduino · NI Multisim · Signal processing · Control systems · React / Node.js · Hyperledger Besu / IPFS

Recognition & service

Full undergraduate scholarship to HCT · Top 200 in the Ethiopian national university entrance examination · Silver medal, HCT Skills Competition (Electrical Installations) · Gold award, Tolerance Planet Sustainability Project · National hackathon finalist (Masar AI) · 117 volunteer hours.

Languages

Amharic (native) · English (academic and professional proficiency) · Italian (elementary)