Amir A. Amini
University of Louisville, USA
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. He served as Vice President for Publications for the IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) during 2020-2021.
Dr. Amini’s laboratory, supported by funding from the NIH, private foundations, and industry, is dedicated to advancing MRI techniques for motion and flow measurement in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, as well as the general development and application of AI and deep learning methods in biomedical imaging.
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, of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2017, of SPIE, the International Society of Optics and Photonics in 2018, of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AIAA) in 2021, and of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) in 2024.