Amir H. Gandomi is among the world’s most cited researchers for his work in the fields of global optimisation and big data analytics, in particular, using machine learning and evolutionary computations.

He is an ARC DECRA Fellow at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at UTS, where he is a Professor of Data Science. He has received multiple prestigious awards for his research excellence and impact, such as the 2024 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (MCR), the 2023 Achenbach Medal (bestowed at Stanford University), and the 2022 Walter L. Huber Prize, the highest-level mid-career research award in all areas of civil engineering.

Amir has published more than 450 journal papers and 14 books, which collectively have 60,000 citations (H-inex=100+), and he has been named one of the world’s most influential scientific minds and highly cited researchers by the influential Clarivate Analytics for six consecutive years.

He is also ranked 18th among more than 17,000 researchers in the online computer science bibliography, Genetic Programming bibliography, and ranks first in Australia. In the recent most impactful researcher list, done by Stanford University and released by Elsevier, Prof Amir H Gandomi is ranked as the 24th researcher in the Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing subfield in 2023.

He has served as associate editor, editor and guest editor in several prestigious journals, such as AE of IEEE TBD, IEEE Networks, and IEEE IoTJ. He regularly delivers keynote addresses at major conferences.

Prior to joining UTS, Amir was an Assistant Professor at the School of Business at Stevens Institute of Technology in the US. He was also a distinguished research fellow in the BEACON Center at Michigan State University, where biologists, computer scientists, and engineers together study evolution and apply their knowledge to real-world problems.