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Mohsen Amini Salehi

Associate Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Email: Mohsen.AminiSalehi@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of Melbourne, 2013
    Major: Engineering
    Specialization: Distributed and Grid Systems
    Dissertation: Contention-Aware Resource Provisioning in Interconnected Grid Computing Systems

Professional Positions

    Academic - Post-Secondary

  • Associate Professor, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2023 - Present).
  • Associate Professor, University of Louisiana Lafayette. University of Louisiana Lafayette. (2021 - 2023).
  • Assistant Professor, University of Louisiana Lafayette. University of Louisiana Lafayette. (2014 - 2021).
  • Postdoctoral Associate, University of Miami. University of Miami. (2013 - 2014).
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Colorado State University, Fort Collins. (2012 - 2013).
  • Lecturer, Azad Mashhad University. Azad Mashhad University. (2006 - 2008).

Licensures and Certifications

  • Certificate of Excellence in Teaching Online (CETO), UNT. (2024 - 2025).
  • ARG training (CAHSI project), University of Texas El Paso. (2025 - 2025).

Professional Memberships

  • IEEE. (October 1, 2023 - Present).
  • ACM. (2024 - 2025).
  • IEEE. (2024 - 2025).

Development Activities

  • Seminar, Streamlining Application Development in the Next Cloud Era, University of British Columbia (UBC). Vancouver,United States of America. (June 2025).
  • Conference Attendance, Envision, Envision Inc.. Dallas,United States of America. (May 2025).
  • Conference Attendance, LogX Conference, University of North Texas. Frisco,TX,United States of America. (March 19, 2025).
  • Workshop, NIH Proposal Workshop Series, University of North Texas. TX,United States of America. (March 2025).
  • Continuing Education Program, ARG training (CAHSI project), University of Texas El Paso. United States of America. (January 2025 - March 2025).
  • Seminar, Attending Texas Alliance, Texas State. United States of America. (October 2024 - 2024).
  • Workshop, HSI/MSI Broader Impact Workshop, UNT. Denton,United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Seminar, Texas Research Alliance AIA Collaboration Speaker Series by Albert Karam, Vice President, Data Strategy and Analytics, Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation. United States of America. (February 15, 2024 - February 15, 2024).
  • Conference Attendance, 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), IEEE. Malaysia. (December 2023).
  • Seminar, AI Collaboration Symposium, UNT. United States of America. (2023 - 2023).
  • Other (NSF Meeting), 2023 NSF PI Meeting of the Computer Systems Research Program, NSF. United States of America. (October 16, 2023 - October 17, 2023).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • CSCE 3444 - Software Engineering, 2 courses.
  • CSCE 4890 - Directed Study, 4 courses.
  • CSCE 5430 - Software Engineering, 4 courses.
  • CSCE 5934 - Directed Study, 6 courses.
  • CSCE 5950 - Master's Thesis, 4 courses.
  • CSCE 6940 - Individual Research, 6 courses.
  • CSCE 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation, 3 courses.

Teaching at Other Institutions

  • Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes (OLLI), Summer 2025.
  • Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes (OLLI), CLOUD + AI, Spring 2025.
  • Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes (OLLI), The Next Generation of Computing Systems: Device to Cloud Computing, Summer 2024.
  • University of Louisiana at Lafayette, CSCE 533 Parallel and Distributed Computing, Spring 2023.

Non-Credit Instruction

  • Seminar, (November 2025).
  • Seminar, 45 participants. (November 7, 2023).
  • Seminar, 45 participants. (October 2023).
  • Uncompensated Instructional Overload, 10 participants. (August 2025 - December 2025).
  • Uncompensated Instructional Overload, (May 2024 - August 2024).
  • Uncompensated Instructional Overload, (May 2024 - August 2024).
  • Uncompensated Instructional Overload, (February 2024 - June 2024).

Directed Student Learning

  • Postdoctoral Research Supervision, Computer Science and Engineering. (September 15, 2025).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2025).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2025).
  • Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (December 2025).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Computer Science and Engineering. (December 2025).
  • Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (2025 - 2025).
  • Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (January 2025 - December 2025).
  • Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (2025).
  • Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (2025).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Computer Science and Engineering. (2025).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Computer Science and Engineering. (2025 - 2025).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Computer Science and Engineering. (2025 - December 2025).
  • Dissertation Committee Co-Chair, Computer Science and Engineering. (2024 - 2025).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Computer Science and Engineering. (October 2025).
  • Internship Advisor, Computer Science and Engineering. (June 1, 2025 - July 30, 2025).
  • Internship Advisor, Computer Science and Engineering. (June 2025 - July 27, 2025).
  • Directed Individual/Independent Study, Data Science. (May 2025).
  • Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (January 2025 - May 2025).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Computer Science and Engineering. (August 2024 - April 2025).
  • Directed Individual/Independent Study, "Developing Use Cases Based on OaaS," Computer Science and Engineering. (September 1, 2024 - December 15, 2024).
  • Major Professor, "Generating FaaS Workflows with LLMs," Computer Science and Engineering. (September 1, 2024 - December 15, 2024).
  • Major Professor, "Resource Allocation of ML Applications across Edge-Cloud," Computer Science and Engineering. (September 1, 2024 - December 15, 2024).
  • Major Professor, "Object as a Service Cloud Abstraction," Computer Science and Engineering. (September 1, 2024 - December 15, 2024).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Enabling IoT Interaction using LLMs," Computer Science and Engineering. (September 1, 2024 - December 15, 2024).
  • Directed Individual/Independent Study, "Efficient Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Computing Systems," Computer Science and Engineering. (January 1, 2024 - May 15, 2024).
  • Major Professor, "FaaS workflow Generation Using LLMs," Computer Science and Engineering. (January 1, 2024 - May 15, 2024).
  • Major Professor, "Resource Allocation of AI Tasks Across Edge-Cloud Continuum," Computer Science and Engineering. (January 1, 2024 - May 15, 2024).
  • Major Professor, "Object as a Service Abstraction in Cloud," Computer Science and Engineering. (January 1, 2024 - May 15, 2024).
  • Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (2023 - 2023).
  • Dissertation Committee Co-Chair, "Natively-Heterogeneous Design of Distributed Computing Systems," Computer Science and Engineering. (November 2019 - November 15, 2023).

Awards and Honors

  • Nominated for Best Paper Award Nominee, 26th ACM/IEEE CCGrid conference, Sydney (May ’26). (2026).
  • Best Poster at AI Horizon ’26 UNT Conference, UNT. (2026).
  • Outstanding Mentor Award, Computer Science and Engineering Department, UNT. (2026).
  • Best Poster Award in College of Engineering R&D Expo Poster Competition, UNT. (2025).
  • Certificate of Appreciation from the New Voices Symposium, Lion's Club International Foundation. (2025).
  • Certificate of Achievement in Sponsored Research 2021, University of Louisiana Lafayette. (2022).
  • Certificate of Achievement in Innovation, University of Louisiana Lafayette. (2020).
  • Nominated for Best Paper Award, 33rd International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS ’19), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (2019).
  • Certificate of Achievement in Sponsored Research, University of Louisiana Lafayette. (2017).
  • Innovation Award, University of Louisiana Lafayette. (2017).
  • Certificate of Achievement in Innovation, University of Louisiana Lafayette. (2016).
  • Rising Star in Research at School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana Lafayette. (2016).
  • Best Intern Award, Infosys Ltd.. (2012).
  • IEEE Expo Competition for Applied Research, Melbourne University. (2009).
  • NSF CAREER Award in Computer Network Systems (CNS-CSR), NSF. (2026).
  • Francis Patrick Clark/BORSF Endowed Professorship, School of Computing & Informatics III, University of Louisiana Lafayette. (2023).
  • Best Service Award, 23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid ’23) Conference. (May 1, 2023).
  • Ranked 2nd among Computer Software Engineering Master’s Students, Computer Engineering Dpt, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, IRAN. (2006).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Abstracts and Proceedings

  • Lertpongrujikorn, P., Amini Salehi, M. (2024). Object as a Service (OaaS) Serverless Cloud Computing Paradigm. Proceedings of the 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW ’24).

    • Book

  • Farhan Hussain, R., Mokhtari, A., Ghalambor, A., Amini Salehi, M. (2023). IoT for Smart Oil and Gas Industry: from Upstream to Downstream Sectors. IoT for Smart Oil and Gas Industry: from Upstream to Downstream Sectors. 57-104. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-32-391151-1.00012-5

    • Book Chapter

  • Farhan Hussain, R., Mokhtari, A., Ghalambor, A., Amini Salehi, M. (2023). Case study I: Analysis of oil spill detection using deep neural networks. IoT for Smart Operations in the Oil and Gas Industry. 177-201. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-32-391151-1.00016-2
  • Farhan Hussain, R., Mokhtari, A., Ghalambor, A., Amini Salehi, M. (2023). Introduction to smart O&G industry. IoT for Smart Operations in the Oil and Gas Industry. 1-17. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-32-391151-1.00010-1
  • Amini Salehi, M. (2023). Preface. IoT for Smart Operations in the Oil and Gas Industry. xix-xx. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-32-391151-1.00008-3
  • Farhan Hussain, R., Mokhtari, A., Ghalambor, A., Amini Salehi, M. (2023). Smart downstream sector of O&G industry. IoT for Smart Operations in the Oil and Gas Industry. 105-131. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-32-391151-1.00013-7
  • Farhan Hussain, R., Mokhtari, A., Ghalambor, A., Amini Salehi, M. (2023). Smart upstream sector. IoT for Smart Operations in the Oil and Gas Industry. 19-56. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-32-391151-1.00011-3
  • Farhan Hussain, R., Mokhtari, A., Ghalambor, A., Amini Salehi, M. (2023). Threats and side-effects of smart solutions in O&G industry. IoT for Smart Operations in the Oil and Gas Industry. 133-161. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-32-391151-1.00014-9
  • Amini Salehi, M., Li, X. (2022). Correction to: Multimedia Cloud Computing Systems. Multimedia Cloud Computing Systems. C1-C1. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88451-2_11
  • Amini Salehi, M., Li, X. (2021). Applications of Multimedia Clouds. Multimedia Cloud Computing Systems. 39-56. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88451-2_4
  • Amini Salehi, M., Li, X. (2021). Computing Infrastructure for Multimedia Streaming Clouds (MSC). Multimedia Cloud Computing Systems. 57-96. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88451-2_5
  • Amini Salehi, M., Li, X. (2021). Demystifying Multimedia Streaming Workflow. Multimedia Cloud Computing Systems. 11-22. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88451-2_2
  • Amini Salehi, M., Li, X. (2021). Future of Multimedia Streaming and Cloud Technology. Multimedia Cloud Computing Systems. 179-187. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88451-2_10
  • Amini Salehi, M., Li, X. (2021). Introduction. Multimedia Cloud Computing Systems. 1-10. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88451-2_1
  • Amini Salehi, M., Li, X. (2021). Low-Latency Delivery Networks for Multimedia Streaming. Multimedia Cloud Computing Systems. 125-151. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88451-2_7
  • Amini Salehi, M., Li, X. (2021). Other Aspects of Multimedia Clouds. Multimedia Cloud Computing Systems. 153-162. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88451-2_8
  • Amini Salehi, M., Li, X. (2021). Prototype Implementation of the MSC Platform. Multimedia Cloud Computing Systems. 163-178. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88451-2_9
  • Amini Salehi, M., Li, X. (2021). Service Reuse in Multimedia Clouds. Multimedia Cloud Computing Systems. 97-123. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88451-2_6
  • Denninnart, C., Amini Salehi, M., Toosi, A.N., Li, X. (2018). Leveraging Computational Reuse for Cost- and QoS-Efficient Task Scheduling in Clouds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 828-836. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03596-9_59
  • Pusala, M.K., Amini Salehi, M., Katukuri, J.R., Xie, Y., Raghavan, V. (2016). Massive Data Analysis: Tasks, Tools, Applications, and Challenges. Big Data Analytics. 11-40. Springer India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3628-3_2

    • Conference Proceeding

  • , Amini Salehi, M. Towards Efficient Allocation of Tasks in Dag-Based Workflows Across Federated Fog Systems. IEEE Cloud Summit.
  • Salehi, S., Huynh, T., Konate, N., Amini Salehi, M. (2024). Geothermal Potential and Risk Assessment of Repurposing Old Wellbores for Geothermal Applications: Case Study of Oklahoma and Texas. The Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. American Association of Petroleum Geologists. https://doi.org/10.15530/urtec-2024-4036660
  • Mokhtari, A., Ghafouri, S., Jamshidi, P., Amini Salehi, M. (2024). HEET: A Heterogeneity Measure to Quantify the Difference across Distributed Computing Systems. Proceedings of the 17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2024). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6245519
  • Lertpongrujikorn, P., Amini Salehi, M. (2024). Streamlining Cloud-Native Application Development and Deployment with Robust Encapsulation. Proceedings of the 15th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC ’24). ACM.
  • Manatura, S., Chanikaphon, T., Chantrapornchai, C., Amini Salehi, M. (2024). FastMig: Leveraging FastFreeze to Establish Robust Service Liquidity in Cloud 2.0. Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud ’24).
  • Mokhtari, A., Rawls, D., Huynh, T., Green, J., Amini Salehi, M. (2023). E2C: A Visual Simulator to Reinforce Education of Heterogeneous Computing Systems. https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/ipdpsw/2023/119900a270/1PkVtDOL0TC
  • Lertpongrujikorn , P., Amini Salehi, M. (2023). Object as a Service (OaaS): Enabling Object Abstraction in Serverless Clouds. IEEE.
  • Chanikaphon, T., Amini Salehi, M. (2023). UMS: Live Migration of Containerized Services across Autonomous Computing Systems.
  • Ghatrehsamani, D., Denninnart, C., Bacik, J., Amini Salehi, M. (2020). The Art of CPU-Pinning: Evaluating and Improving the Performance of Virtualization and Containerization Platforms. 49th International Conference on Parallel Processing - ICPP. 1-11. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3404397.3404442
  • Denninnart, C., Gentry, J., Amini Salehi, M. (2019). Improving Robustness of Heterogeneous Serverless Computing Systems via Probabilistic Task Pruning. 2019 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW). 6-15. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ipdpsw.2019.00012
  • Gentry, J., Denninnart, C., Amini Salehi, M. (2019). Robust Dynamic Resource Allocation via Probabilistic Task Pruning in Heterogeneous Computing Systems. 2019 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). 375-384. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ipdps.2019.00047

    • Journal Article

  • Lertpongrujikorn, P., Amini Salehi, M. (2026). Object as a Service: Simplifying Cloud-Native Development Through Serverless Object Abstraction. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 75 (2) 423-434. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/tc.2025.3623602
  • , Amini Salehi, M. (2025). Action Engine: Automatic Workflow Generation in FaaS. Future Generation Computer Systems. 174
  • Zobaed, S., Amini Salehi, M. (2025). Confidential Computing Across Edge‐To‐Cloud for Machine Learning: A Survey Study. Software: Practice and Experience. 55 (5) 896-924. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.3398
  • Amini Salehi, M. (2024). Load Balancing for Heterogeneous Serverless Edge Computing: A Performance-Driven and Empirical Approach. Future Generation Computer Systems.
  • Amini Salehi, M. (2024). Resource Allocation of Industry 4.0 Micro-Service Applications across Serverless Fog Federation. Future Generation Computer Systems.
  • Amini Salehi, M. (2024). SMSE: A Serverless Platform for Multimedia Cloud Systems. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.
  • Denninnart, C., Amini Salehi, M. (2024). SMSE: A serverless platform for multimedia cloud systems. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 36 (4) Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.7922
  • Denninnart, C., Chanikaphon, T., Amini Salehi, M. (2023). Efficiency in the serverless cloud paradigm: A survey on the reusing and approximation aspects. Software: Practice and Experience. 53 (10) 1853-1886. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.3233
  • Zobaed, S., Amini Salehi, M. (2022). Privacy‐preserving clustering of unstructured big data for cloud‐based enterprise search solutions. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 34 (22) Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.7160
  • Denninnart, C., Gentry, J., Mokhtari, A., Amini Salehi, M. (2020). Efficient task pruning mechanism to improve robustness of heterogeneous computing systems. Other. 142 46-61. Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2020.03.018
  • Pham, H., Woodworth, J., Amini Salehi, M. (2019). Survey on secure search over encrypted data on the cloud. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 31 (17) Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.5284
  • Woodworth, J.W., Amini Salehi, M. (2019). S3BD: Secure semantic search over encrypted big data in the cloud. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 31 (11) Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.5050
  • Amini Salehi, M., Smith, J., Maciejewski, A.A., Siegel, H.J., Chong, E.K., Apodaca, J., Briceño, L.D., Renner, T., Shestak, V., Ladd, J., Sutton, A., Janovy, D., Govindasamy, S., Alqudah, A., Dewri, R., Prakash, P. (2016). Stochastic-based robust dynamic resource allocation for independent tasks in a heterogeneous computing system. Other. 97 96-111. Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2016.06.008
  • Amini Salehi, M., Javadi, B., Buyya, R. (2012). QoS and preemption aware scheduling in federated and virtualized Grid computing environments. Other. 72 (2) 231-245. Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2011.10.008

Presentations Given

    Demonstration

  • Amini Salehi, M. (Leader), New Voices Symposium as part of the Lion’s International meeting, AI+Cloud for blind and visually impaired citizens, United States of America. (2025).

    • Exhibit

  • Amini Salehi, M. (Leader), Envision Conference, SmartSight Project Demonstration, Dallas, United States of America. (2025 - 2025).

    • Invited Talk

  • Amini Salehi, M. (Presenter), Edge-Cloud+AI: Paving the Path to Intelligent Industry Solutions, Texas Instrument, United States of America. (2025).
  • Amini Salehi, M. (Presenter), Lion’s International Cabinet Meeting, SmartSight: Harnessing AI power to provide ambient perception for visually impaired, blind and cognitively impaired users, Dallas, United States of America. (2024).
  • Amini Salehi, M. (Panelist), 22st Multicore and Multiprocessor SoCs (MPSoCs ’24) Forum, Realizing Fluid Computing in Cloud 2.0, Kanazawa, Japan, Japan. (2024 - 2024).
  • Amini Salehi, M. (Author & Presenter), Colloquium of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Cloud 2.0: The Next Generation of Cloud Computing Systems, University of Texas Arlington, United States of America. (2023).
  • Amini Salehi, M. (Author & Presenter), 21st Multicore and Multiprocessor SoCs (MPSoCs ’23) Event, Quantifying System Heterogeneity, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America. (2023).

    • Oral Presentation

  • Amini Salehi, M. (Presenter), Streamlining Application Development in the Next Cloud Era, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, Canada. (2025).
  • Amini Salehi, M. (Presenter), Tokyo University of Technology, Cloud 2.0: the Next Generation of Cloud Computing Systems, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan. (2024 - 2024).

    • Other

  • Amini Salehi, M. (Author), 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS ’24), Object as a Service (OaaS) Serverless Cloud Computing Paradigm, New Jersey, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Contract

  • Amini Salehi, M., "establishing a cloud-based search engine for thermal wells in the US," sponsored by Oklahoma University, Private, $8000 Funded. (2023 - 2023).

    • Grant - Research

  • Amini Salehi, M., "Exploring the Market for Object as a Service Serverless Cloud Paradigm," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $50000 Funded. (2025).
  • Amini Salehi, M., "AAM Accessibility and Safety for Blind and Visually Impaired Citizens," sponsored by NASA, Federal, $750000 Funded. (2025 - 2028).
  • Khatami, M. (Co-Principal), Amini Salehi, M. (Principal), "AAM Accessibility and Safety for Blind and Visually Impaired Citizens," sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Federal, $750000 Funded. (2025 - 2028).
  • Amini Salehi, M., "IRES Track 1: Collaborative Research: IRES Track 1: Wireless Federated Fog Computing for Remote Industry 4.0 Applications," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $158279 Funded. (2023 - 2026).
  • Amini Salehi, M. (Principal), "CAREER: Developing a Special-Purpose Cloud for Robust Serverless Multimedia Streaming," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $513000 Funded. (2021 - 2026).
  • Amini Salehi, M., "REU for Developing a Flexible Serverless Multimedia Streaming Cloud Platform," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $20000 Funded. (2024 - 2026).
  • Amini Salehi, M. (Principal), "Small: SmartSight: an AI-Based Computing Platform to Assist Blind and Visually Impaired People," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $249687 Funded. (2020 - 2024).

Copyrights, Patents

    Patent

  • Amini Salehi, M., Lertpongrujikorn, P., Nguyen, H.D., STREAMLINING CLOUD-NATIVE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT WITH ROBUST ENCAPSULATION, Regular, Renewal Date: November 2025..

Service

University Service

  • Host of Guest Artist, Hosting Professor Takayuki (Tak) Kushida from School of Computer Science, Tokyo University of Technology. (November 2025 - Present).
  • Host of Guest Artist, Hosting Professor Rajkumar Buyya from Melbourne University. (May 2025 - Present).
  • Committee Member, External Awards. (October 1, 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, PhD Admission. (October 1, 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Tenure and Tenure Track Hiring Committee. (October 1, 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, PAC. (September 15, 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Promotion and Tenure. (September 15, 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, PAC, PhD Admissions, External Awards, Promo-tion and Tenure, Professional Faculty Promotion, and Tenure Track Hiring. (2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, UR2PhD Program. (2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Peer Review Committee. (2022 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Search Committee at School of Computing and Infor-matics (CMIX). (2016 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Adviser of the student ACM chapter. (2015 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Representative of the department in the Computer Engineering Students’ Associations (CESA). (2007 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Computer Engineering department coordinator with the university library. (2006 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Director of the undergraduate Computer Network laboratory. (2006 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Director of the undergraduate Operating System laboratory. (2006 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Professional Faculty Promotion Committee. (August 2025 - December 2025).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Admission Committee. (January 2025 - December 2025).
  • Committee Member, PAC. (January 2025 - December 2025).
  • Committee Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee. (January 2025 - December 2025).
  • Task Force Chair, Initiating a joint program with Kasetsart University for 3+2 degrees. (March 2024 - December 2024).
  • Committee Member, Dissertation Committee. (2024 - 2024).
  • Committee Member, External Awards Committee. (January 2024 - December 2024).
  • Member, PAC. (January 2024 - December 2024).
  • Committee Member, PhD Admission Committee. (January 2024 - December 2024).
  • Committee Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee. (January 2024 - December 2024).
  • Chairperson, Weekly Research Meetings across Dr. Tong's and Dr. Amini groups. (January 2024 - December 2024).
  • Faculty Advisor, UR2PhD Program. (May 2024 - August 2024).
  • Committee Member, Tenure Track search committee (general area subcommittee). (January 2024 - May 2024).
  • Host of Guest Artist, Inviting and Hosting Distinguished Speaker (Dr. Mahadev Satyanarayanan). (March 2024 - March 2024).
  • Committee Chair, Dissertation Committee. (March 7, 2024 - March 7, 2024).

Public Service

  • Guest Speaker, The Lion's International Club. (October 2024 - October 2024).
  • Guest Speaker, UT Arlington. Arlington, Texas. (November 2023).

Professional Service

  • Committee Member, 10th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC '25), Washington D.C., Dec. 2025. (October 2025 - Present).
  • Area Chair, 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Performance Computing and Deep Learning (CCPCDL '25), Shanghai, China. (October 2025 - Present).
  • Committee Member, 2nd International Workshop on the Orchestration of the Serverless Edge-Cloud Continuum (Coherent '25), Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 2025. (August 2025 - Present).
  • Committee Member, 9th IEEE Cloud Summit, Washington, D.C., USA, June 2025. (June 2025 - Present).
  • Editor, Guest Editor, Special Issue on Serverless Computing for the Journal of Grid Computing, published by Springer Nature, 2025. (June 2025 - Present).
  • Committee Member, NSF Panel CSR Medium. (January 2025 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Network Magazine. (November 30, 2023 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Transactions on Cloud Computing. (September 29, 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Australian Computer Science Week (ACSW '24). Sydney, New South Wales. (September 1, 2023 - Present).
  • Area Chair, 24th IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid ’24), Philadelphia, USA. Philadelphia, PA. (June 1, 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, 26th IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid '26), Sydney, Australia, May 2026. Sydney, (December 2025 - 2026).
  • Committee Member, 35th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW) as part of IPDPS '26. New Orleans, (May 2026 - May 2026).
  • Area Chair, 26th IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid '26), Sydney, Australia. (September 2025 - May 2026).
  • Area Chair, Symposia of Edge Computing, Cloud Computing, and Big Data (ECB), at the International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC '26). (September 2025 - February 2026).
  • Committee Member, 37th IEEE/SBC Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD '25), Bonito, Brazil, Oct. 2025. (October 2025).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, 17th IEEE Cloud Conference. (2024 - 2024).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, 20th IEEE eScience Conference. (2024 - 2024).
  • Session Chair, 22st Multicore and Multiprocessor SoCs (MPSoCs ’24). (2024 - 2024).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, 43rd IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC '24), Orlando, USA, Nov. 2024. (2024 - 2024).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Computing survey journal. (2024 - 2024).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. (2024 - 2024).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Supercomputing. (2024 - 2024).
  • Area Chair, Symposia of Edge Computing, Cloud Computing, and Big Data (ECB), at ICNC 2025. (2024 - 2024).
  • Other (Workshop co-chair), 24th IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid ’24), Philadelphia, USA. (May 2024 - May 2024).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, National Science Foundation (NSF). (February 2024 - February 2024).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, National Science Foundation (NSF). (January 2024 - January 2024).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, National Science Foundation (NSF), Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI). Arlington, Virginia. (December 15, 2023 - January 24, 2024).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Future Generation Computing Systems (FGCS). (October 30, 2023 - December 9, 2023).

Consulting

  • Academic, Okahoma University, United States of America. (2023 - December 2023).