Fahad Saeed

Dr. Fahad Saeed is a tenured Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University (FIU). His research focuses on the intersection of machine learning, high-performance computing, and computational biology with applications in healthcare and proteomics. He directs the Saeed Lab, which develops scalable algorithms for big biomedical data analysis.

Education:
- Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago (2010)
- B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore (2006)

Research Interests: Machine learning for neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., Alzheimer’s), computational proteomics, big data analytics, and high-performance computing frameworks for omics data. His work emphasizes scalable algorithms for healthcare IoT and edge computing.

Key Contributions: Over 90 peer-reviewed publications, 4 conference proceedings, and $3.9M in external grants (NSF, NIH). Notable awards include the NSF CAREER Award (2017) and NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship (2010). His lab pioneered tools like SpeCollate for mass spectrometry data and HiCOPS for proteomics database searches.

• Awards: NSF CRII, WMU Distinguished Research Award, FIU Top Scholar (2022)
• Grants: NSF CAREER Award ($600K), NIH grants for Alzheimer’s research

Labs & Teams: Director of the Saeed Lab at FIU, collaborating on NIH-funded projects in computational biology and neuroimaging analysis.