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Amir Amini was born on March 28, 1965 in Tehran, Iran and immigrated to the US in 1979 after the Iranian revolution. While in Iran he attended the National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talent (NODET). Amir lived in Green Wood, IN for one year in 1979-1980 during which time he completed his High School diploma in May 1980 at the age of 15. He then moved to Amherst, MA where he attended the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, completing his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering in 3 years where he was the youngest student in his graduating class, and receiving his Bachelor's degree with high honors. Amir continued his graduate studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. After working in the field of communication and information theory, he decided to join the newly formed Artifical Intelligence Lab at Michigan where he performed research on computer vision, graduating in May 1990 with a Ph.D. thesis on image segmentation with deformable models.

Amini joined Yale University to pursue post-doctoral training in Radiological sciences and medical image computing, later joining the faculty as Assistant Professor of Radiology and Electrical Engineering and staying on for 4 years before moving to Washington University in St. Louis, becoming Associate Professor with tenure in 2000. In 2006 he joined the University of Louisville Electrical and Computer Engineering as Professor and Endowed Chair in Bioimaging. He has been at University of Louisville since August 2006 where he directs the Medical Imaging Laboratory and conducts research in the area of computational imaging, cardiovascular imaging, and on medical image analysis including deep learning. Dr. Amini has been on the editorial board of IEEE Trans. On Medical Imaging since 1999, Elsevier's journal of Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics since 2012, IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering since 2014, IEEE Journal of Biomedical Health Informatics (2016-2019), and the IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology since 2019. He has been on the scientific advisory board of IEEE Journal of Biomedical Health Informatics since 2020. Dr. Amini was elevated to grade of Fellow of the IEEE (Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) in 2007 with the citation, ``for contributions to Cardiovascular Imaging and Medical Image Analysis.'' With more than 430,000 members in over 150 countries, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) is the world's largest professional society dedicated to the advancement of technology. Only 0.1 percent of the active membership worldwide can be elevated to the rank of Fellow in any given year. More recently, in January 2013, he received the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Dr. Amini served on the IEEE EMBS Administrative Committee for the term 2016-2018. He co-chaired the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging which took place in Washington, D.C. in April 2018 and was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2017. He was elevated to Fellow of SPIE - the International Society for Optics, Photonics, and Imaging in 2019. Dr. Amini serves as Vice President for Publications for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society for the term 2020-2021. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, private foundations, and industry.