Ahmed Imteaj

I am Ahmed Imteaj, currently a PhD Candidate and Graduate Assistant at the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University I am doing my PhD under the supervision of Prof. M. Hadi Amini. I am also a research lab member of Sustainability, Optimization, and Learning for InterDependent networks laboratory (solid lab) at Florida International University. I received my B.Sc. from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) in 2015. My research interests span Federated Learning, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine learning, Smart systems, and Blockchain. I along with my PhD advisor Prof. M. Hadi Amini received the best paper award from “2019 IEEE Conference on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence”. I also won the Second Place at Graduate Student Appreciation Week Scholarly Forum 2021 for my PhD research work. Besides, I actively contributed and assisted my supervisor in drafting a proposal, "Agent-based Learning to Utilize Local Data for Activity Recognition", that recently awarded funding from DHS, Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis, Center of Excellence, which is based on my PhD research on Federated Learning." I act as a mentor and instructor of NSF REU and NSF RET site for three consecutive summer and have experience of mentoring and leading graduate and undergraduate students in different projects.