Amir A. Amini
University of Louisville, USA
2024

Amir A. Amini received B.S. in Electrical Engineering with high honors from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he was the youngest graduate at age 18 and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

He is currently the Endowed Chair in Bioimaging and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisville. Prior to his current position, he held faculty appointments at Yale University and Washington University in St. Louis.

He has held numerous leadership roles in the scientific community, organizing and chairing several international workshops, conferences, and symposia in medical imaging and image analysis. He has served on the scientific program committee for 77 conferences throughout his career. He co-chaired the IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis in 1996 and 2000, the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images from 2003-2006, the SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium in 2007, and the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) in 2018.

Currently, Dr. Amini serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, and Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics. He has been on the scientific advisory board of IEEE Journal of Biomedical Health Informatics since 2020.   He served as Vice President for Publications for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) during 2020-2021.

Funded by the NIH, private foundations, and industry, Dr. Amini’s laboratory focuses on development and application of MRI methods for motion and flow measurement, as well as biomedical image processing and analysis methods based on AI and Deep Learning for cardiovascular imaging, computer-aided diagnosis, and radiation therapy of lung cancer.

Dr. Amini received the UMASS Amherst College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award in 2020. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE (EMBS) in 2007, to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2017, to SPIE, the International Society of Optics and Photonics, in 2018, to the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association in 2021, and to the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineers (IAMBE) in 2024.