Biography
Fahad Saeed is Full Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University (FIU), Miami FL. He received his Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 2010. He was trained as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Research Fellow in the Systems Biology Center at National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda MD from Aug 2010 to January 2014 respectively, under the supervision of Mark Knepper. Prior to joining FIU, Prof. Saeed was a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science at Western Michigan University (WMU), Kalamazoo Michigan since Jan 2014. He was tenured and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at WMU in August 2018. He has served as a visiting scientist in world-renowned prestigious institutions such as Department of Bio-Systems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE), ETH Zurich, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) and Epithelial Systems Biology Laboratory (ESBL) at National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda, Maryland.
Saeed’s research interests are at the intersection of machine-learning, high performance computing and real-world applications, especially in computational biology. He is the director of Precision Computational Health and Biomedical Data Science Lab (Saeed Lab) at FIU. His lab develops machine-learning models, combined with high-performance computing, and data science approaches, to study the functional genomics (proteomics), and organization of the human brain and its function in the context of prediction, diagnosis and characterization of biomarkers specific to disorders such as epilepsy, ADHD, Autism, and Alzheimer’s. His research has been funded by NVIDIA, Intel/Altera, Xilinx, National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) including the highly prestigious NSF CAREER, and NIH R01 (and R01-equivalent R35 MIRA) grants. More information about his lab research activities can be found at https://pcdslab.github.io/. He also maintains a webpage.
Complete list of publications is available here.
Awards & Honors
- Excellence in Research and Creative Activities Award, Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Science (KFSCIS), FIU, Dec 2024
- FIU Top Scholar, Research and Creative Activities, Florida International University, CEC News Page, Sept 2022
- Keynote Speaker at the 14th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICOB).
- Excellence in Applied Research Award, School of Computing and Information Science (SCIS), Florida International University (FIU), Dec 2020
- Distinguished Research and Creative Scholarship Award, Office of Vice President of Research WMU, Feb 2018
- NSF CAREER Award, 2017-2022
- NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award, Feb 2015 - Feb 2018
- ACM Senior Member, May 2017
- Outstanding New Researcher Award, College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS), Western Michigan University (1 faculty member gets the award in a single year for the entire college, consisting of 7 academic departments), Jan 2016
- IEEE Senior Member, March 2015
- Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE), National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Official award ceremony and US$1000 travel grant), June 2012
- Recipient of Think Swiss Scholarship, by the Government of Switzerland for two years, 2007 and 2008
Education
- MD, Research Fellowship, Computational Systems Biology, National Institutes of Health, 2011-2014
- MD, Postdoctoral Training, Computational Proteomics, National Institutes of Health, 2010-2011
- Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006-2010
- BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, 2002-2006