A linguist by profession, Dr. Eyasu Hailu Tamene, has been working with the Deaf people; mostly with Ethiopian and South Sudan Deaf communities, and sign languages since 2005. Apart from being a regular academician, he is also a skilled sign language interpreter both locally and internationally.

He did his PhD in 2015, specializing in sign language linguistics. In 2021, he won Fulbright Research African Scholarship to develop an action plan for a new continental platform called African Sign Languages Resource Center (ASLRC). Hosted at the Center for Black Deaf Studies of Gallaudet University but he had the opportunity to research visit and make academic connections at the University of California in Davis and National Technical Institute for the Deaf of Rochester Institute of Technology.

Currently, he is Assistant Prof. of Sign Language and Deaf Studies at Addis Ababa University.