Assistant Professor, Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University
Director, Sustainability, Optimization, and Learning for InterDependent networks laboratory (solid lab)
Associate Director, National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency (TraCR), Supported by the U.S. DOT
Phone: (305) 348-9936
Email:
[last-name] at]cs[dot]fiu[dot]edu
Hello! My name is M. Hadi Amini, and I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University. I am also the Founding Director of Sustainability, Optimization, and Learning for InterDependent networks laboratory (solid lab) at Florida International University. I received my PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 2019, where I received my M.Sc. in 2015. I am a Senior Member of IEEE and Life Member of the IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) Honor society. I am passionate about interdisciplinary research to bridge the gap between machine learning/optimization theory and its application to interdependent networks. My research interests span distributed computing, federated learning, distributed optimization/learning algorithms, interdependent networks, and cyber-physical-social resilience and security. My research at FIU, with my Ph.D. students as the lead author, has received one Best Conference Paper award for the paper on distributed sensing for federated learning and one Best Journal Paper award for the paper on topological data analysis for network resilience. I have developed three new courses on optimization for computing, distributed machine learning, and linear algebra for computer science since joining FIU.
Selected Honors and Awards:
FIU College of Engineering and Computing Faculty Excellence in Mentorship Award, 2025
FIU Top Scholar Award, Research and Creative Activities, Junior Faculty with Significant Grants (Sciences), 2024
IEEE Senior Member, 2023
FIU Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, 2023
Rewarding Excellence in Teaching Incentives (RETI) Award, Florida International University, 2022
Best Journal Paper Award of "Springer Nature Operations Research Forum Journal", 2021
Excellence in Teaching Award from FIU School of Computing and Information Sciences, 2020
Best Paper Award of "Annual Conf. on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence" (CSCI'19), 2019
Best Reviewer Award of "IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid", 2019
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