Biography: Dr. M. Hadi Amini is an Associate Professor at the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University. He is the founding director of Security, Optimization, and Learning for InterDependent networks laboratory (www.solidlab.network) and  Associate Director of the USDOT National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency (TraCR). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2019. He conducts research in federated learning, distributed optimization and learning algorithms, and their applications in real-world problems, such as cybersecurity, interdependent cyberphysical systems, and public safety.  He received the 2025 IEEE Big Data Security Junior Research Award for excellent contributions to Big Data Security in Cyber Physical Systems. He was selected as one of the Rising Stars (Science) by The Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL) for pioneering research in bridging the gap between computing sciences (learning and optimization) and cyber-physical critical infrastructures security and resilience in 2025. He was elevated to Senior Member of IEEE in 2022, and is a recipient of the Best Paper Award from “2019 IEEE Conference on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence”, the 2021 Best Journal Paper Award from “Springer Nature Operations Research Forum Journal”, 2025 FIU College of Engineering and Computing Faculty Excellence in Mentorship Award, 2024 FIU Top Scholar Award, Research and Creative Activities (Sciences), and the 2023 FIU “Faculty Senate Excellence in Teaching Award”. He serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking. (Homepage: www.hadiamini.com)




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