BEKELE Ephrem Teshale received the BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, in 2007, the MSc degree in Telecommunications Engineering in 2011, and the PhD in Information and Communications Technology in 2015 both from the University of Trento, Trento, Italy. He has worked as an Assistant Lecturer in Bahir Dar University, from 2007 to 2009.

He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (AAiT) in Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and an Associate Faculty Member of the ELEDIA Research Center. He is also a member of the Applied Electromagnetic Research Group in AAiT. His main research interests are Antenna performance enhancement using artificially engineered materials, Computational Electromagnetic Fields using Machine Learning, Electromagnetic non-destructive testing using Ground Penetrating Radar, Evolutionary optimization techniques applied to Electromagnetics, Time modulated Antenna Arrays.