M. Hadi Amini
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M. Hadi Amini

Google Scholar ID: E84r_bUAAAAJ
Associate Professor, Florida International University
Distributed LearningEdge AITrustworthy AICPS Security
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Citations & Impact
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Citations
5,672
 
H-index
35
 
i10-index
87
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
78
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Publications
10 items
GUARD-SLM: Token Activation-Based Defense Against Jailbreak Attacks for Small Language Models
2026
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Multi-turn Jailbreaking Attack in Multi-Modal Large Language Models
arXiv.org · 2026
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Jailbreaking Large Vision Language Models in Intelligent Transportation Systems
2025
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An Empirical Analysis of Secure Federated Learning for Autonomous Vehicle Applications
2025
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JaiLIP: Jailbreaking Vision-Language Models via Loss Guided Image Perturbation
2025
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Heterogeneous Federated Reinforcement Learning Using Wasserstein Barycenters
2025
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FedShield-LLM: A Secure and Scalable Federated Fine-Tuned Large Language Model
2025
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Accurate and Efficient Two-Stage Gun Detection in Video
2025
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 2025 IEEE Big Data Security Junior Research Award for contributions to Big Data Security in Cyber-Physical Systems
  • 2025 FIU College of Engineering and Computing Faculty Excellence in Mentorship Award
  • 2024 FIU Top Scholar Award – Research and Creative Activities, Junior Faculty with Significant Grants (Sciences)
  • IEEE Senior Member, 2023
  • 2023 FIU Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award
  • 2022 Rewarding Excellence in Teaching Incentives (RETI) Award, Florida International University
  • 2021 Best Journal Paper Award, Springer Nature Operations Research Forum
  • 2020 Excellence in Teaching Award, FIU School of Computing and Information Sciences
  • 2019 Best Paper Award, Annual Conference on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence (CSCI'19)
  • 2019 Best Reviewer Award, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
  • Best Conference Paper Award for work on distributed sensing for federated learning (Ph.D. student first author)
  • Best Journal Paper Award for work on topological data analysis for network resilience (Ph.D. student first author)
Background
  • Currently Associate Professor at the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University
  • Founding Director of the Security, Optimization, and Learning for InterDependent networks laboratory (SOLID Lab) at FIU
  • Associate Director of the National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency (TraCR), supported by the U.S. DOT
  • Research interests include distributed computing, federated learning, distributed optimization/learning algorithms, interdependent networks, and cyber-physical-social resilience and security
  • Passionate about interdisciplinary research bridging machine learning/optimization theory and applications to interdependent networks
Co-authors
78 total
Ahmed Imteaj
Ahmed Imteaj
Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University
Co-author 2
Co-author 2
Sundararaja Sitharama Iyengar
Sundararaja Sitharama Iyengar
Professor of Computer Science, Florida International University
Panos Pardalos
Panos Pardalos
University of Florida
Co-author 5
Co-author 5
Co-author 6
Co-author 6
Badhan Chandra Das
Badhan Chandra Das
Florida International University
Co-author 8
Co-author 8