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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 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).

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, 5 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).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Computer Science and Engineering. (August 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

  • Received UNT Research Recognition Award for efforts to help UNT reach TUF Level 1 designation, UNT. (December 2025).
  • Best Service Award, 23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid ’23) Conference. (May 1, 2023).

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).

    • Conference Proceeding

  • , Amini Salehi, M. Towards Efficient Allocation of Tasks in Dag-Based Workflows Across Federated Fog Systems. IEEE Cloud Summit.
  • 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).
  • konate, N., Salehi, S., Amini Salehi, M., Hyunh, T. (2024). Geothermal Potential and Risk Assessment of Repurposing Old Well-bores for Geothermal Applications: Case Study of Oklahoma and Texas. Proceedings of the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC ’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.

    • Journal Article

  • , Amini Salehi, M. (2025). Object as a Service: Simplifying Cloud-Native Development through Serverless Object Abstraction. IEEE Transactions on Computers.
  • , Amini Salehi, M. (2025). Action Engine: Automatic Workflow Generation in FaaS. Future Generation Computer Systems. 174
  • Amini Salehi, M. (2025). Confidential Computing across Edge-to-Cloud for Machine Learning: A Survey Study. Journal of Software: Practice and Experience.
  • 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., Chanikaphon, T., Amini Salehi, M. (2023). Efficiency in the Serverless Cloud Paradigm: A Survey on the Reusing and Approximation Aspects. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/spe.3233
  • Denninnart, C., Amini Salehi, M. (2023). SMSE: A Serverless Platform for Multimedia Cloud Systems. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cpe.7922#:~:text=Unlike%20conventional%20SaaS%20platforms%20for,request%20to%20stream%20the%20contents.

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, 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).