Faculty Spotlight: Mohsen Amini

Mohsen Amini, PhD joined the Computer Science Program in the School of Computing and Informatics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette as an Assistant Professor in August 2015. He held a temporary position in the same program during the 2014-2015 academic year. Prior to this, Amini was a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Miami (2013-2014), and at Colorado State University (2012-2013).

Dr. Amini received his PhD in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia. His PhD thesis "Contention-aware Resource Provisioning in Interconnected Grid Computing Systems" (directed by Rajkumar Buyya) is concerned with resource allocation based on Virtual Machine preemption in distributed systems. He received his MS in Software Engineering in 2006 from Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran and his BS in Software Engineering from Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.

Broadly speaking, Dr. Amini's research and technology interests are in Cloud Computing and Big Data areas. In particular, he is interested in Virtualization, Cloud and Big Data Security, Resource Allocation, and Heterogeneous Distributed systems.

Dr. Amini has authored 27 research papers in respected books, journals, and conferences. He has filed a patent in the US as a result of his research on energy-aware resource allocation in cloud datacenters. Dr. Amini was an intern (from Oct 2011 until Jan 2012) at Infosys Ltd. in Bangalore, India. He received the "best intern award" from Infosys Ltd., in 2012, for his achievements in the company.

Contact Dr. Amini or learn more through these links:
amini@louisiana.edu
Mohsen Amini's webpage