M. Hadi Amini is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University (FIU). He is also the founding director of Sustainability, Optimization, and Learning for InterDependent networks laboratory (solid lab). He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2019 and 2015 respectively. He also holds a doctoral degree in Computer Science and Technology. Prior to that, he received M.Sc. from Tarbiat Modares University in 2013, and the B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology in 2011. His research interests include distributed machine learning and optimization algorithms, distributed intelligence, sensor networks, interdependent networks, and cyberphysical resilience. Application domains include energy systems, healthcare, device-free human sensing, and transportation networks. Prof. Amini is a life member of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN), the honor society of IEEE. He organized a panel on distributed learning and novel artificial intelligence algorithms, and their application to healthcare, robotics, energy cybersecurity, distributed sensing, and policy issues in 2019 workshop on artificial intelligence at FIU. He also served as President of Carnegie Mellon University Energy Science and Innovation Club; as technical program committee of several IEEE and ACM conferences; and as the lead editor for a book series on ‘‘Sustainable Interdependent Networks’’ since 2017. He has published more than 80 refereed journal and conference papers, and book chapters. He has co-authored two books, and edited three books on various aspects of optimization and machine learning for interdependent networks. He is the recipient of the best paper award of “IEEE Conference on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence” in 2019, best reviewer award from four IEEE Transactions, the best journal paper award in “Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy”, and the dean’s honorary award from the President of Sharif University of Technology.
