Assefaw Gebremedhin is an associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University, where he leads the Scalable Algorithms for Data Science (SCADS) Lab. He also serves as Director and Lead PI of the Department of Defense-funded VICEROY Northwest Institute for Cybersecurity Education and Research (CySER), Lead of the Advancing AI Working Group at Washington State University, and Director of a Department of Education-funded Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program focused on training graduate students at the intersection of AI, data science, and engineering applications.
Assefaw received the 2021 George Polya Prize in Applied Combinatorics for joint work with Fredrik Manne and Alex Pothen, and he received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2016 for work on fast and scalable combinatorial algorithms for data analytics. His research interests include: data science and AI, high-performance computing, graph algorithms, cyber security, and bio and health informatics. His role in ForeSITE is primarily related to computational epidemiology and toolsets for forecasting and nowcasting. Assefaw earned his PhD and MS in Computer Science from the University of Bergen, Norway and his BS in Electrical Engineering from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
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