Faculty and Staff
Mia (Mahshid) Naeini, PhD
Assistant Professor
NSF CAREER Award 2023
IEEE Senior Member
Office: ENB 244A
Phone: 813-974-1597
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr. Naeini’s research interests include leveraging data analytics, network science, signal processing, graph signal processing and graph-empowered machine learning to integrate security and reliability measures into the design and control of cyber physical systems and critical infrastructures, with a focus on smart grids. Her recent work focuses on enhancing situational awareness to various cyber and physical stresses in power systems, including cascading failures, employing graph signal processing and graph neural networks.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Naeini is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of South Florida since Fall 2017. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from University of New Mexico in 2014. She obtained her M.Sc. and B.S.c. in Computer Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology in 2009 and Sharif University of Technology in 2007, respectively. She is the recipient of NSF CAREER Award 2023 and is an IEEE Senior Member since 2020.
Teaching
- EEE6935 - AI and Security in Cyber Physical Systems
- EEL4512C - Introduction to Communication Systems
- EEE6542 - Random Processes