Assefaw Gebremedhin, Service and Affiliation

University Service
Proposal Review
Book Review
Conference and Symposium Organizing
Journal Paper Review
Professional Membership

• Member, Courses Committte for PhD in Data Science/Data Analytics, Summer 2021
• Point-of-Contact, WSU AI Research, Oct 2019 -- present
• Member, Data Analytics Curriculum Committee, Jan 2020 -- present.
  Also helped with development of the program in 2015--2016.
• Member, Faculty Senate Academic Affairs Committee (AAC), 2017--2020.
• Faculty Mentor, PNW Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) at WSU, 2015--present.
• Faculty Advisor, National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) WSU Student Chapter, 2015--2020.
• Co-organizer, Distinguished Seminar Series in Data Science, 2015--2016.
• Member, VCEA Facuty Committee for Undergrad Recruitment, Spring 2020--present.
• Member, Governance Committee of the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture HPC cluster Aeolus, 2016--2020.
• Lead, EECS Undergrad Recruiting Committee, Fall 2019--present.
• Member, EECS Graduate Studies Committee (GSC), 2019--present.
• Member, 2021 CS Faculty Search Committee, EECS, Pullman campus.
• Member, 2021 EE Faculty Search Commmitee, EECS, Pullman campus.
• Contributor, Curriculum development for the Data Science Track in the Computer Science program at EECS, WSU, 2015--present.
• Member, 2014 Faculty Search Committee for multiple tenure-track positions in Data Science at EECS, WSU Pullman campus.

• Panelist, US National Science Foundation: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.
  (Multiple panels in some years)
• Reviewer, US Department of Energy: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2009.
  (Multiple panels in some years)
• Reviewer, Netherland's Organization for Scientific Research: 2014, 2008.
• Reviewer, The French National Research Agency: 2010.

• Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, Statisical Sciences Series, 2017

• Springer Nature, Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing Series, 2016
• SIAM, Frontiers in Applied Mathematics, 2008

• Organizing Committee Member, NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on Differentiable Programming
• Senior Program Committee Member, AAAI 2022
• Program Committee Member, SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA 2021)
• Program Committee Member, The Web Conference 2021, April 19--23, 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Program Committee Member, SIAM Data Mining (SDM) 2021, March 25--27, 2021, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
• Program Committee Member, The Web Conference 2020, April 20--24, 2020, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Program Committee Member, SIAM Data Mining (SDM) 2020, May 7--9, 2020, Cincinati, Ohio, USA.
• Program Committee Member, SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC20), Feb 11--13, 2020, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Program Committee Member, Supercomputing Workshop on Irregular Applications, Architectures and Algorithms (IA^3 2019), Nov 18, 2019, Denver, CO, USA.
• Program Committee Member, The Web Conference 2019 (formerly known as WWW), May 13--17, 2019, San Francisco, CA.
• Program Committee Member, SIAM Data Mining (SDM) 2019, May 2--4, 2019, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
• Organizer, Minisymposium on "Distributed-Memory Graph Analytics: Programming Models, Algorithms and Applications" at SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19), February 25--March 1, 2019, Spokane, WA.
• Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2018), December 17--20, 2018, Orlando, Florida.
• Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2018), December 10--13, 2018, Seattle, Wa.
• Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data and Analytics (HiPC 2018), December 17--20, 2018, Bengaluru, India.
• Primary Program Committee Member, Algorithms Track, IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2018) , May 21--25, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• Program Co-Chair, IPDPS 2018 Workshop on Graph Algorithms and Machine Learning (GraML 2018), May 25, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

• Program Committee Member, The Web Conference (WWW 2018) , April 23--27, 2018, Lyon, France.
• Program Committee Member, Eighth SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC18), June 6-8, 2018, Bergen, Norway.

• Program Committee Member, ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2017) , August 20--23, 2017, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data and Analytics (HiPC 2017), December 18--21, 2017, Jaipur, India.
• Program Committee Member, KDD'17 Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG 17), August 14, 2017, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Technical Program Committee Member, International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2017), August 10--12, 2017, JIIT, Noida, India.
• Co-chair, the Seventh SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC16), October 10-12, 2016, Albuquerque, NM.
• Program Committee Member, BigGraphs 2016: Third International Workshop on High Performance Big Graph Data Management, Analysis and Mining (at IEEE BigData'16), December 5, 2016, Washington DC, USA.
• Program Committee Member, SIAM Workshop on Network Science (NS16), July 15-16, 2016, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Technical Program Committee Member, 18th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE2015), October 21--23, 2015, Porto, Portugal.
• Technical Program Committee Member, 29th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2015), May 25--29, 2015, Heberabad, India.
• Organizing Committee Member, The Sixth SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC14), Lyon, France, July 21--23, 2014.
• Organizer, Minisymposium on Automatic Differentiation and Nonlinear Optimization at 2012 SIAM Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 9--13, 2012.
• Technical Program Committee Member, 4th International Conference on Contemporary Computing August 8--10, 2011, India.
• Organizer, Minisymposium on Scientific Computing on Multicore and Multithreaded Architectures at SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (SIAM CSE11), Rheno, Nevada, Feb 28 - March 4, 2011.
• Organizer, Minisymposium on Parallel Algorithms for Massive Graphs at SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (SIAM PP10), Seattle, Washington, Feb 24-26, 2010.
• Organizer, Minisymposium on automatic differentiation and its applications at SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE09), Miami, Florida March 2--6, 2009.
• Organizing Committee Member, Para 2000, Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing, Bergen, Norway, June 2000. Also Co-edited the Para 2000 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1947, Springer 2001.

• ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
• ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing
• ACM Journal on Experimental Algorithmics
• ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Multi-scale Computing Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
• SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
• SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
• Parallel Computing
• The Very Large Databases Journal
• PLOS One
• Concurrency: Practice and Experience
• Optimization Methods and Software
• Algorithms (Open Access journal by MPDI)
• Discrete Applied Mathematics
• Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing

• Member of SIAM
• Member of SIAM Activity Groups on:
• Supercomputing
• Computational Science and Engineering
• Optimization
• Data Mining and Analytics
• Member of ACM
• Member of IEEE