Biography:Assefaw Gebremedhin

Assefaw Hadish Gebremedhin
Born	Ethiopia
Alma mater	University of Bergen Addis Ababa University
Awards	George Pólya Prize (2021) NSF CAREER Award (2016)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science, Data science
Institutions	Washington State University, Purdue University
Thesis	Practical Parallel Algorithms for Graph Coloring Problems in Numerical Optimization
Doctoral advisor	Fredrik Manne
Website	eecs.wsu.edu/~assefaw/

Assefaw Hadish Gebremedhin is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University, where he is also Director of the Scalable Algorithms for Data Science Laboratory. Prior to joining Washington State in 2014, he was on the computer science faculty at Purdue University. Gebremedhin received the 2021 George Pólya Prize together with Fredrik Manne and Alex Pothen for jointly developing "efficient graph coloring algorithms and codes with applications to Jacobian and Hessian matrix computations."

Academic biography

Gebremedhin received his BS degree in 1996, his MS in 1999, and his PhD in 2003, all in computer science from the University of Bergen. He additionally received an earlier BS degree in electrical engineering from Addis Ababa University, in 1992.