{"id":999,"date":"2023-08-15T13:57:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T20:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/?page_id=999"},"modified":"2025-06-02T14:38:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:38:32","slug":"service","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/scads\/service\/","title":{"rendered":"Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Service<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Assefaw Gebremedhin is currently serving or has recently served the community in his research area in several ways: serving in proposal review panels, serving in book reviews, organizing conferences and minisymposia, serving in technical program committees, and serving as a referee for papers submitted to a variety of journals and conferences on algorithms, parallel and distributed computing, scientific computing, and theoretical computer science. He also serves in various university committees at WSU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#ProposalR\">Proposal Review and Panel Service<\/a><br><a href=\"#BookR\">Book Review<\/a><br><a href=\"#ConferenceR\">Conference and Workshop Leadership and Committee Service<\/a><br><a href=\"#JournalR\">Journal Paper Review<\/a><br><a href=\"#UniversityR\">University Service<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" id=\"ProposalR\"><strong>Proposal Review\/Panel Service:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Panelist,&nbsp;<em>U.S. National Science Foundation<\/em>: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reviewer,&nbsp;<em>U.S. Department of Energy<\/em>: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2009.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reviewer,&nbsp;<em>Netherland\u2019s Organization for Scientific Research<\/em>: 2014, 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reviewer,&nbsp;<em>The French National Research Agency<\/em>: 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" id=\"BookR\"><strong>Book Review:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Chapman &amp; Hall\/CRC Press, Statistical Sciences Series, 2017<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Springer Nature, Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing Series, 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SIAM, Frontiers in Applied Mathematics, 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" id=\"ConferenceR\"><strong>Conference and Workshop Leadership and Committee Service:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Program Committee Member, The Web Conference 2021 (formerly known as WWW), April 19\u201323, 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee Member, SIAM Data Mining (SDM 2021), March 25\u201327, 2021, Alexandria, Virginia, USA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee Member, The Web Conference 2020 (formerly known as WWW), April 20\u201324, 2020, Taipei, Taiwan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee Member, SIAM Data Mining (SDM 2020), May 7\u20139, 2020, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee Member, SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing 2020 (CSC20), Feb. 11\u201313, 2020, Seattle, WA, USA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee Member, Supercomputing Workshop on Irregular Applications, Architectures and Algorithms (IA3 2019), Nov 18, 2019, Denver, CO, USA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee Member, SIAM Data Mining (SDM 2019), May 2\u20134, 2019, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee Member, The Web Conference 2019 (aka WWW), May 13\u201317, 2019, San Francisco, CA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2018), Dec 10\u201313, 2018, Seattle, Wa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data and Analytics (HiPC 2018), Dec 17\u201320, 2018, Bengaluru, India<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Primary Program Committee Member, Algorithms Track, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipdps.org\/\">IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2018)<\/a>, May 21\u201325, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Co-Chair,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/hpc.pnl.gov\/graml\/\">IPDPS 2018 Workshop on Graph Algorithms and Machine Learning (GraML 2018)<\/a>, May 25, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee Member,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2018.thewebconf.org\/\">The Web Conference (WWW 2018)<\/a>, April 23\u201327, 2018, Lyon, France<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee Member,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csc-research.org\/CSC18\">The Eighth SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC18)<\/a>, June 6\u20138, 2018, Bergen, Norway<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee Member,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/acm-bcb.org\/2017\/\">ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2017)&nbsp;<\/a>, August 20\u201323, 2017, Boston, Massachusetts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee Member,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/hipc.org\/\">IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data and Analytics (HiPC 2017)<\/a>, December 18\u201321, 2017, Jaipur, India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee Member,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlgworkshop.org\/2017\/\">KDD\u201917 Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG 17)<\/a>, August 14, 2017, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Technical Program Committee Member, International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2017), August 10\u201312, 2017, JIIT, Noida, India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-chair,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.wsu.edu\/~assefaw\/CSC16\/csc16.html\">the Seventh SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC16)<\/a>, October 10-12, 2016, Albuquerque, NM.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee Member,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biggraphs.org\/\">BigGraphs 2016: Third International Workshop on High Performance Big Graph Data Management, Analysis and Mining (at IEEE BigData\u201916)<\/a>, December 5, 2016, Washington DC, USA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee Member,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.siam.org\/meetings\/ns16\">SIAM Workshop on Network Science (NS16)<\/a>, July 15-16, 2016, Boston, Massachusetts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Technical Program Committee Member,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/paginas.fe.up.pt\/~specs\/events\/cse2015\/index.php?page=home\">18th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE2015)<\/a>, October 21\u201323, 2015, Porto, Portugal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Technical Program Committee Member,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipdps.org\/\">29th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2015)<\/a>, May 25\u201329, 2015, Heberabad, India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organizing Committee Member,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/bora.ucar\/CSC14\/csc14.html\">The Sixth SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC14)<\/a>, Lyon, France, July 21\u201323, 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organizer,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_programsess.cfm?SESSIONCODE=14964\">Minisymposium on Automatic Differentiation and Nonlinear Optimization<\/a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.siam.org\/meetings\/cse11\/\">2012 SIAM Annual Meeting<\/a>, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 9\u201313, 2012.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Technical Program Committee Member,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jiit.ac.in\/jiit\/ic3\/\">4th International Conference on Contemporary Computing<\/a>&nbsp;August 8\u201310, 2011, India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organizer,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_programsess.cfm?SESSIONCODE=11476\">Minisymposium on Scientific Computing on Multicore and Multithreaded Architectures<\/a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.siam.org\/meetings\/cse11\/\">SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (SIAM CSE11)<\/a>, Rheno, Nevada, Feb 28 \u2013 March 4, 2011.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organizer,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_programsess.cfm?SESSIONCODE=9527\">Minisymposium on Parallel Algorithms for Massive Graphs<\/a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.siam.org\/meetings\/pp10\/\">SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (SIAM PP10)<\/a>, Seattle, Washington, Feb 24-26, 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organizer,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_programsess.cfm?SESSIONCODE=8098\">Minisymposium on automatic differentiation and its applications<\/a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.siam.org\/meetings\/cse09\/\">SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE09)<\/a>, Miami, Florida March 2\u20136, 2009.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" id=\"JournalR\"><strong>Journal Paper Refereeing (multiple times for most of the journals):<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siam.org\/journals\/sisc.php\">SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siam.org\/journals\/simax.php\">SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/toms.acm.org\/\">ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/topc.acm.org\/\">ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tsas.acm.org\/\">ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jea.acm.org\/\">ACM Journal on Experimental Algorithmics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computer.org\/portal\/web\/tpds\">IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computer.org\/portal\/web\/tmcs\">IEEE Transactions on Multi-scale Computing Systems<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computer.org\/web\/tkde\">IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/wps\/find\/journaldescription.cws_home\/505617\/description#description\">Parallel Computing<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vldb.org\/vldb_journal\/\">The Very Large Databases Journal<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/\">PLOS One<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/journal\/5361\/home\">Concurrency: Practice and Experience<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandf.co.uk\/journals\/goms\">Optimization Methods and Software<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/algorithms\">Algorithms (Open Access journal by MPDI)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/wps\/find\/journaldescription.cws_home\/505609\/description#description\">Discrete Applied Mathematics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/west\/home\/engineering?SGWID=4-175-70-1100087-0\">Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Department-Level Service<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Lead, Cybersecurity Curriculum Committee, 2022 \u2013 present<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lead, Assessment of the BS in Cybersecurity Major, 2023 \u2013 present<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lead, EECS Undergraduate Recruiting Committee, 2019 \u2013 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, Computer Sciences Curriculum Committee, 2023 \u2013 present<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, EECS Assessment Committee, 2023 \u2013 present<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, EECS Graduate Studies Committee (GSC), 2019 \u2013 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, Cybersecurity Faculty Search Committee (EECS, Pullman), 2024 \u2013 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-Chair, Cybersecurity Faculty Search (EECS, Tri-Cities), 2023 \u2013 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, CS Faculty Search Committee (EECS, Pullman), 2021 \u2013 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, EE Faculty Search Committee (EECS, Pullman), 2019 \u2013 2020 &amp; 2021 \u2013 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, CS Faculty Search Committee (EECS, Pullman), 2015 \u2013 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>University Level<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Faculty Mentor, WSU Team Mentoring Program (TMP), 2023\u2013present.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Faculty Mentor, PNW Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) at WSU,<br>2015\u2013present.Coordinator, WSU Cybersecurity Initiatives, 2022\u20132024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, Committee for PhD in Data Science\/Data Analytics, 2021\u20132023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Point-of-Contact, WSU AI Research, 2019\u20132022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, Data Analytics Faculty Advisory Board, 2020\u20132022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, Faculty Senate Academic Affairs Committee (AAC), 2017\u20132020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-organizer, Distinguished Seminar Series in Data Science, 2015\u20132016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>College-Level Service:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Faculty Advisor, Cyber Security Group (CSG) Student Club, 2021 \u2013 present<br><em>The CSG is a very active student club. 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