Yonas Sium

Yonas Sium

Position
  • PhD Student
Yonas Sium is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University, working in the Data and Knowledge Mining Laboratory under Dr. Qi Li's guidance. His research focuses on Trustworthy Data Science, Graph Learning, and Optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation(RAG) Systems for Large Language Models (LLM). As an intern at IBM Research's Trustworthy AI Laboratory, he extensively explored graph representation learning for directed graphs, along with explainability and fairness.

Area of Expertise

  • Graph Learning
  • Large Language Models
  • Trustworthy Data Science

Education

  • M.S., Computer Science, Iowa State University