Joining ECE Department at Northeastern University

  • Honored to be selected as Outstanding Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Learning Systems (TNNLS) [Sep 2023].
  • I have joint the IEEE CIS Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee [August 2023].
  • Congratulations to Armita KazemiNajafabadi on her paper “Optimal monitoring and attack detection of networks modeled by Bayesian attack graphs” accepted in the Cybersecurity journal [April 2023].
  • Our paper titled “A Bayesian optimization framework for finding local optima in expensive multi-modal functions” is accepted at the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) [July 2023].
  • Congratulations to Mohammad Alali on his paper “Reinforcement Learning Data Acquisition for Causal Inference of Regulatory Networks” being selected as a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at the 2023 American Control Conference (ACC) [April 2023].
  • Our paper titled “Optimal Recursive Expert-Enabled Inference in Regulatory Networks” is accepted for publication in the IEEE Control Systems Letters [Dec 2022].

  • I gave an invited talk on AI/ML applications in healthcare at Oracle’s Health and AI Services  [August 2022].
  • We received a three-year National Institute of Health (NIH) NIBIB Trailblazer award [June 2022].
  • I have joined the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Neural Network Learning Systems [Jan 2022].
  • I have joined the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology [Sep 2021].

  • We received a four-year Army Research Office award [July 2021].
  • I elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member [February 2021].
  • I organized a half-day workshop titled “Scalable, Reliable and Online Bayesian Learning” in IEEE 16th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) [August 2020].
  • I organized a half-day workshop titled “Machine Learning for Scalable, Reliable and Online Design and Decision Making” in IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) [August 2020].
  • We received a two-year National Science Foundation (NSF) award [July 2020].

    • I am pleased to announce that I will join the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2021. I am grateful for 2 incredible years at George Washington University with amazing students and colleagues, and thrilled to start this new chapter in Fall 2021!

    I will join the ECE department at Northeastern University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2021. Please visit my Northeastern website at https://imani.sites.northeastern.edu

    https://imani.sites.northeastern.edu