Faculty Lecturer
University of Georgia
Dr. Soheyla Amirian is currently a faculty lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Georgia, where she is also leading educational and research efforts at the Applied Machine Intelligence Initiatives & Education (AMIIE) Laboratory, working with a multidisciplinary team of faculty members, students, and investigators to design, build, validate, and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven machine learning (ML) algorithms in different real-world settings, such as public health, imaging informatics, and AI-powered education. Furthermore, Dr. Amirian serves as a faculty fellow at the UGA Institute of AI. She earned her BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. all in Computer Science, with a main focus on AI, computer vision, and machine learning/deep learning computational components. Dr. Soheyla Amirian is the 2019 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence CSCI Outstanding Achievement awardee, the 2021 UGA Outstanding Teaching Assistant, the NVIDIA GPU awardee, the 2020 and 2022 ACM Richard TAPIA Conference Scholarship awardee, and she was named a finalist of the 2020 NCWIT (National Center for Women and Information Technology) Collegiate Award. Of late, she has authored 25+ peer-reviewed publications and has organized several conferences and tutorials on computational intelligence (e.g., ISVC), serving as the Co-Chair of Research Tracks at the World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (CSCE) plus the International Conference on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence (CSCI).
