People


Director


 Dr. Assefaw Gebremedhin

Dr. Assefaw H. Gebremedhin


Email: assefaw.gebremedhin@wsu.edu
Office: EME B43
Phone: 509-335-3952
Postal address:
355 Spokane St
EME B43, School of EECS
Washington State University


Current Graduate Students


Harrison Greenlee

Computational Epidemiology
PhD student

Coby Soss

AI and Graph Algorithms
PhD student

Tashi Stirewalt

Tashi Stirewalt

Cybersecurity
PhD student

Stephanie Kane

Stephanie Kane

Algorithmic Bias
PhD student

James Halvorsen

James Halvorsen

Cybersecurity
PhD Student

Jarren Briscoe

Jarren Briscoe

AI and Machine Learning
PhD student

Funso Oje

Funso Oje

Health Informatics
PhD student

Shruti Patil

Shruti Patil

Network Science
PhD student

Deven Biehler

Geospatial Algorithms
MS student

Zayn Abou-Harb

Geospatial Algorithms
MS Student

Lubah-Nelson

Lubah Nelson

Edge Intelligence
MS Student


Alumni


Emma Johnson

Emma Johnson

TMP Mentee (2024-2025)
Computer Science

WSU alumni Spring 2025

Vanessa Moran

Vanessa Moran

TMP Mentee (2023-2024)  
Computer Engineering

WSU alumni Fall 2024

Megan Dolan

Megan Dolan

Software Development
MS, Lab assistant

Tony Liu

Tony Liu

PhD, July 2021

High Performance Computing

First position after PhD:

Postdoc at UW

Yunshu Du

Yunshu Du

PhD, April 2021

Reinforcement Learning

First position after PhD:

Sony AI

Sayan Ghosh

Sayan Ghosh

PhD, June 2019

High Performance Computing

First position after PhD:

Staff Scientist at PNNL

Keyvan Sasan

Keyvan Sasan

MS, November 2018

First position after MS:

Product Engineer at Bigstream

Ramyar Saeedi

Ramyar Saeedi

PhD (July 2018), Postdoc (August 2019)

First position after Postdoc:

Data Scientist at Hitachi

Helen Catanese

Helen Catanese

MS, May 2017

PhD student at WSU

Currently on leave

James Crabb

MS, November 2023

Post-Doc

Nathan Waltz

Undergraduate student researcher Summer 2020

WSU alumni 2025


Undergraduate Students Mentored in Research


Aaron Brookhouse

Aaron Brookhouse

Summer 2020 REU student

Michigan State University

Zachary Cutler

Zachary Cutler

Summer 2019 REU student

University of Utah

Sunny Chiu

Sunny Chiu

Summer 2018 REU student

Colorado College

Nathaniel Burley

Nathaniel Burley

Undergrad Research

2018—2020, WSU

Skyler J. Norgaard

Skyler J. Norgaard

Summer 2017 REU student

Kalamazoo College

Kyla Mallory

Kyla Mallory

Honors Thesis Advisee

Data Analytics,
Fall ’19 Graduate, WSU

Cai Haught

Hillary Zhang

Cybersecurity
WSU, Computer Science

Navroop Kaur

Wearables and Health Applications

WSU, Computer Science

Tyler Coffey

Cybersecurity
WSU, Computer Science


CySER Students

Mentored in Research or Senior Design Projects


Genevieve Kochel

Genevieve Kochel

2024 – 2025

Collin Bale

Collin Bale

2024-2025

Guinevere Fish

Guinevere Fish

2024-2025

Emily West

Emily West

2023-2024

Fredy Fernandez

Fredy Fernandez

2023-2024

Ralph Lewis

Bryan Frederickson

Class of Spring 2025
2024-2025

Samantha Brewer

Samantha Brewer

Class of Spring 2025
2024-2025

Zachary Werle

Zachary Werle

Class of Spring 2025
2023-2025

William Heinecke

William Heinecke

Class of Spring 2025
2024-2025

Ralph Lewis

Griffin Gerry

Class of Spring 2025
2024-2025

Alexander Hagood

Alexander Hagood

Class of Spring 2025
2024-2025

Freeman Trader

Freeman Trader

Class of Fall 2024
2023-2024

Douglas Takada

Douglas Takada

Class of Fall 2024
2023-2024

Ralph Lewis

James Minteer

Class of Fall 2024
2022-2023

Jose Sainz

Jose Sainz

Class of Spring 2024
2022-2023

Kaitlin White

Kaitlin White

Class of Spring 2024
2022-2023

Cai Haught

Cai Haught

Class of Spring 2024
2022-2023

Andrew Fritz

Andrew Fritz

Class of Spring 2024
2022-2023

Nathan Waltz

Class of Fall 2023
2021-2023