People

Current Lab Group 2023 from Left to Right: Maryam, Fahad A, Fahad S., Umair, Samuel, Tianren, Hermes
Missing: Robert, Sumesh, Usman, Oswaldo

Our biweekly lab meetings – they are usually fun.

Lab Director

Dr. Fahad Saeed, PhD (Webpage) (CV(pdf))
Associate Professor (Tenured), Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences,
Associate Professor, Biomolecular Sciences Institute (BSI),
Associate Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Medicine,
Florida International University (FIU) – The State University of Florida at Miami, FL USA
Director: Saeed Lab (Parallel Computing and Data Science Group)
Founder & CEO: AI-NeoTech LLC

Current Members

Umair Mohammad

Postdoctoral Fellow

BSc. and MSc. King Fahd University of Petroleum Minerals (KFUPM),
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Idaho (UI) in 2020
Research Focus: Parallel & Distributed Machine-learning for Proteomics, and Connectomics
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/umairmohammadyaqub

Sumesh Kumar

PhD Student

B.Sc. - National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad; MSc. University of Manchester, UK
Research Focus: Design and development of reconfigurable computing strategies for big data and machine-learning algorithms
Web: https://saeedlab.cis.fiu.edu/

Oswaldo Artiles

PhD Student

BSc. from Universidad Central de Venezuela; MSc. University of Manchester, UK
Research Focus: Design and development of parallel & distributed computing strategies for machine-learning algorithms
Web: https://saeedlab.cis.fiu.edu/

Fahad Almuqhim

PhD Student

BSc. Al-Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University
MSc. Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Research Focus: Working on developing machine learning algorithms for analysis of big MRI data
Web: https://saeedlab.cis.fiu.edu/

Robert Loredo

PhD student

BSc. University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL USA
MSc. University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL USA
Research Focus: Quantum Neuroinformatics
Web: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=jyceGwoAAAAJ

Tianren Yang

Ph.D. student

B. Sc. Zhengzhou University, China
M. Sc. Florida International University, FL, USA
Research Focus: Working on graph neural network for the analysis of big MRI data.

Maryam Akhavan Aghdam

PhD student

BSc. Computer Engineering, Azad University, Tehran Iran
MSc. Computer Engineering, Azad University, Tehran Iran
Research Focus: Working on machine-learning models for Alzheimer's disease

Samuel Ebert

PhD student

BSc - CS - North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC USA
Focus: Machine-learning for MS data
Web: https://saeedlab.cis.fiu.edu/

Usman Tariq

PhD Student

B.Sc. - University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore
Research Focus: Design and development of advance machine-learning models for MS data
Web: https://saeedlab.cis.fiu.edu/

John Quitto Graham

Undergraduate Researcher

Research Focus: Design and implementation of big omics data algorithms
Web: https://saeedlab.cis.fiu.edu/

Hermes Bonilla

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Paulina Acosta

Undergraduate Student BSc Computer Science

Working on Machine-Learing models for MS based Omics

Group Alumni

Muaaz Awan

PhD Student

B.Sc. - University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore
PhD Dissertation: High-Performance Computing Reductive Strategies for Big Data from LC-MS/MS based Proteomics
First position: Post-Doctoral Scholar at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
Last Known Position: Permanent Staff Scientist, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NESRC), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
Web: https://sites.google.com/a/wmich.edu/mgul/

Mohammed Aledhari

PhD Student

M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Basrah, Basra, Iraq
PhD Dissertation: A Deep Learning-based Data Minimization Algorithm for Big Genomics Data in Support of Internet of Things (loT) and Secure Smart Health Services
First position: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA 30144
Web: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6mSbTDgAAAAJ&hl=en

Taban Eslami

PhD Student

BSc. Hamedan University of Technology; M.Sc. Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
Research Focus: Working on developing machine learning and HPC algorithms for analysis of big fMRI data
First Position: Senior Machine Learning Engineer at ZEISS

Muhammad Haseeb

PhD Student

B.Sc. - University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore
PhD Dissertation: High Performance Computing Algorithms for Accelerating Peptide Identification from Mass-Spectrometry Data Using Heterogeneous Supercomputers
First position: Post-Doctoral Scholar at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
Web: https://www.haseebm.com/

Sandino Narciso Vargas Perez

PhD Student

B.Sc. Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica Madre y Maestra, Santiago, Dominican Republic
PhD Dissertation: A Hybrid Parallel Approach to High-Performance Compression of Big Genomic Files and In-Compresso Data Processing
First position: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo MI, USA
Web: http://www.sandinovargasperez.com/

Mohammad Ali Abu Shattal

PhD Student

M.S. in Communications Engineering from Mutah University, AlKarak - Jordan

PhD Dissertation: Bio-Socially Inspired Strategies in Support of Dynamic Spectrum Access: An Evolutionary Game Theory Perspective

First position: Post-Doctoral Scholar at ECE Department at Ohio State University

Last known position: Senior Lecturer, ECE Department at Ohio State University

Web: http://www.abushattal.com

Usman Tariq

MS Thesis Student

B.Sc. - University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore

MS Thesis: Power-Efficient and Highly Scalable Parallel Graph Sampling using FPGAs

Last Known Position: PhD student Computer Science Department, FIU

Web: https://saeedlab.cis.fiu.edu/

Dana Abdul Qader

MS Thesis Student

MS Thesis: A High Performance Architecture for an Exact Match Short-Read Aligner Using Burrow-Wheeler Transform on FPGAs

Last known position: Engineer at Stryker Corporation, San Jose CA

Blake Werge

MS Student

First Position: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Apple Inc.

Fatima Afzali

Undergraduate Researcher

Research Focus: Design and implementation of big omics data algorithms

Web: https://saeedlab.cis.fiu.edu/

Emily Costa

Undergraduate Researcher

Now PhD student at NorthEastern University, Boston MA
Research Focus: Design and implementation of mass spectrometry specific workflows and data formats
Web: https://saeedlab.cis.fiu.edu/

Osazomon Imarenezor

Researcher

Bachelor of Science: Chemistry, UIUC
Master of Science: Biological Science, University of Miami
Research Focus: Computational Methods in Proteomics

James A Novorita

Undergrad Research Student

Last Known Position: Engineer at Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo MI

Alex Cadigan

Last known position: Undergraduate student at CS Department at Kalamazoo College

Lily Kitagawa

High School Research Student

Last known position: Undergraduate student (computer science) at California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech)

Isabel Holtan

High School Research Student

High School Research student from Kalamazoo Area Mathematics & Science Center Student
First Position: Undergraduate student at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Zoe Srackangast

High School Research Student

High School research student from Kalamazoo Area Mathematics & Science Center Student

Gwendolyn Park

High School Research Student

High school research student from Kalamazoo Area Mathematics & Science Center Student