- 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.