Assefaw Hadish Gebremedhin

Assefaw Gebremedhin is currently an assistant 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. Prior to joining WSU in Fall 2014, he was a research assistant professor at Purdue University Department of Computer Science, where he served as a founding member and a co-investigator in the Combinatorial Scientific Computing and Petascale Simulations (CSCAPES) Institute. His current research interests include: data science and AI, network analysis, high-performance computing, and pervasive computing. In 2016, Assefaw received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award for work on fast and scalable combinatorial algorithms for data analytics. He earned his PhD and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Bergen, Norway, and his BSc in Electrical Engineering from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf, last updated Feb 2020)

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• This Spring 2020 semester I am teaching:
  
  • CptS 317: Automata and Formal Languages (MWF 10:10--11). Visit the course's website for details.
  • CptS 591: Elements of Network Science (TuTh 9:10--10:25). Visit the course's website for details.

Here are a few things I am currently working on (browse through the Research page in the menu on the left for details in each):

• Developing machine learning and graph-theoretic algorithms for power grid applications
• Developing models, algorithms and software for management and analysis of biological sequence data
• Developing efficient machine learning and signal processing algorithms for wearable systems
• Developing efficient Automatic Differentiation algorithms in deep learning

• Developing effective paradigms for parallelizing graph and other combinatorial algorithms on modern computing platforms
• Developing fast and scalable algorithms for discovering dense subgraphs in large, sparse networks

Here is a link to NSF's Announcement and here is a link to the project's website.

I always look for highly motivated graduate students with strong background and interest in working in the research areas I pursue. If you belong to that category and would like to join my group, please send me an email containing a brief statement of interest, and CV and relevant test scores in an attachement. If I see a good match and have an opening, I will certainly get back to you. If not, I will still try my best to respond, but I admit I may not be able to, given the large number of emails I get. Thanks for your understanding.