Scholar
Assefaw Gebremedhin
Google Scholar ID: iQs7spsAAAAJ
Washington State University, School of EECS
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,647
H-index
21
i10-index
43
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- - 2024 EECS Outstanding Program Leadership Award
- - 2022 Reid Miller Teaching Excellence Award from the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture
- - 2021 George Polya Prize in Applied Combinatorics
- - 2016 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- - Published numerous papers and mentored several graduate students, including Ph.D. and M.S. graduates.
Research Experience
- - Prior to joining WSU, he was a research faculty member at Purdue University's Department of Computer Science and a founding member and investigator in the DOE-funded SciDAC Institute for Combinatorial Scientific Computing and Petascale Simulations (CSCAPES).
- - Currently advising multiple Ph.D. and M.S. students on topics such as cybersecurity education, geospatial algorithms, computational epidemiology, AI and ML fairness, graph algorithms and AI, and environmental health.
Education
- - Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Bergen, Norway
- - M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Bergen, Norway
- - B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Background
- - Research Interests: Combinatorial scientific computing, high-performance computing, machine learning and AI, cybersecurity, bioinformatics, environmental health, and energy ecosystems
- - Professional Field: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- - Brief Introduction: Berry Family Distinguished Associate Professor at Washington State University, leading the Scalable Algorithms for Data Science (SCADS) Lab, and serving as the director of several important programs and initiatives.
Miscellany
- - Hobbies and Interests: Not explicitly mentioned