About Me

I am a Computer Science Ph.D. student at the University of Houston, supervised by Dr. Ioannis T. Pavlidis and Dr. Christoph F. Eick. I focus on Responsible and Ethical AI, with a primary emphasis on dataset evaluation. My research examines how datasets are constructed, documented, and maintained, and how their statistical and structural properties influence fairness, privacy risk, and reliability in AI systems.

My work involves designing and building frameworks to evaluate AI datasets and the codebases used to develop models. I apply these frameworks to assess dataset quality, dataset fairness, and privacy risk, with a particular focus on medical tabular data. In parallel, I evaluate repositories for responsible development practices such as reproducibility, documentation quality, privacy safeguards, and basic ethical and compliance signals. By defining clear metrics and auditing criteria and using them to surface bias and risk, I support more careful and accountable AI development.

News

Our paper BiasBridge has been accepted to IEEE BigData 2026. I will present the work at the conference in Phoenix, Arizona, December 14–17, 2026.

Research Interests

  • Datasets Quality, Privacy, Fairness, and Compliance
  • Algorithmic Fairness & Privacy-Preserving AI
  • Responsible & Ethical AI Frameworks

Publications

BiasBridge: Regional Bias Attribution and Source-Conditioned Debiasing for Tabular Data

Tadesse K Bahiru, Christoph F. Eick. | IEEE BigData 2026 (Accepted)

AI Data Development: A Scorecard for the System Card Framework

Tadesse K Bahiru, H. Tibebu, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris. | ITAI 2025

Auditing and Mitigating Intersectional Bias in Gender Classification: A Data-Centric Approach

Tadesse K Bahiru, N. T. Sinshaw, H. M. Teshager, Dheeraj K Singh. | ICT4DA 2025

Mining Road Traffic Accident Data for Prediction of Accident Severity

Tadesse K Bahiru, V. S. Manjula, Tadesse Birara Akele, Engdaw Ayalew Tesfaw, Tadesse Destaw Belay. | IDCIoT 2023

Comparative Study on Data Mining Classification Algorithms to Predict Road Traffic Accident Severity

Tadesse K Bahiru, Dheeraj Kumar Singh, Engdaw Ayalew Tessfaw. | ICICCT 2018

Ethiopian Banknote Recognition and Fake Detection Using Support Vector Machine

Engdaw A. Tessfaw, B. Ramani, Tadesse K Bahiru. | ICICCT 2018

Awards & Honors

Graduate Tuition Fellowship (GTF)

University of Houston | January 2024–December 2028

Conference Travel Award

Department of Computer Science, University of Houston | IEEE BigData 2026, Phoenix, Arizona