Shahram Rahimi

Dr. Shahram Rahimi is currently the Department Head and Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Mississippi State University. Prior to that, he was Professor and Chair at the Department of Computer Science at Southern Illinois University (SIU) for six years. Dr. Rahimi has extensive background in both academia and industry. He is a recognized leader in artificial intelligence with over 190 peer-reviewed publications and several patents or pending patents in this area. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence and sits on the editorial board of many other journals. He is also an integral part of the IEEE’s Committee for New Standards.

Shahram has organized over 15 conferences on Artificial Intelligence and multi-agent systems over the past decade and has served as Principal Investigator for several federally funded and industry-funded research projects. Shahram has been contributing to advancements in AI and Computational Intelligence over the past 20 years.