Photo of Massoud Amin Massoud Amin, D.Sc.

University of Minnesota
1300 South Second Street, #510
Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
phone: (612) 624-5747
fax: (612) 624-7510
email: amin@umn.edu

Dr. Massoud Amin is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, holds the H.W. Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership, and is the Director of the Center for the Development of Technological Leadership at the University of Minnesota in Twin Cities (CDTL, www.cdtl.umn.edu). In addition to his administrative responsibilities, he serves as the director of graduate studies for the management of technology program and teaches several courses including MOT 8920 (Science and Technology Policy), MOT 8224 (Pivotal Technologies), MOT 8940 (Intellectual Property Valuation and Strategy), and ISE 5302 (Critical Infrastructure Security and Protection).

His research focuses on two areas: 1) Global transition dynamics to enhance resilience, security and efficiency of complex dynamic systems. These systems include national critical infrastructures for interdependent energy, computer networks, communications, transportation and economic systems. 2) Technology scanning, mapping, and valuation to identify new science and technology-based opportunities that meet the needs and aspirations of today's consumers, companies and the broader society. This thrust builds coherence between short- and longer-term R&D opportunities and their potential impact.

Prior to joining the University of Minnesota in March 2003, Dr. Amin held positions of increased responsibility including Area Manager of Infrastructure Security, Grid Operations/Planning, and Energy Markets at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, California. In the aftermath of the tragic events of 9/11, he directed all security-related research and development at EPRI, including the Infrastructure Security Initiative (ISI) and the Enterprise Information Security (EIS). Prior to October 2001, he served as manager of mathematics and information science at EPRI, where he led strategic research in modeling, simulation, optimization, and adaptive control of national infrastructures for energy, telecommunication, transportation, and finance.

At EPRI, Dr. Amin developed collaborative research initiatives with diverse groups, including electric power industry, the government, universities and other stakeholders (including EPRI and its members, the US DOD, DOE, NSF, National Governors' Association, NRC/NAE, and the White House OSTP). This primarily involved creation and successful launch of the Complex Interactive Networks/Systems Initiative (CIN/SI), initiated in mid-1998 in response to growing concerns over the vulnerability of critical national infrastructures. CIN/SI developed six research consortia consisting of 108 professors and over 200 researchers in 28 U.S. universities, along with two energy companies, co-funded equally by EPRI and the U.S. DOD. In the course of the CIN/SI, Dr. Amin coined the term 'self-healing grid' and led the development of more than 19 advanced technologies now being transferred to the industry.

Prior to joining EPRI in January 1998, he held positions of associate professor of systems science and mathematics and associate director of the Center for Optimization & Semantic Control at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. During his twelve years at Washington University, he was one of the main contributors to several projects with United States Air Force, NASA-Ames, Rockwell International, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, MEMC, ESCO, Systems & Electronics Inc. and United Van Lines. While at Washington University, his research focused on:

Dr. Amin is the author or co-author of more than 125 research papers and the editor of seven collections of manuscripts, and serves on the editorial boards of six academic journals. At Washington University, students voted him three times Professor of the Year (voted annually by seniors in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University, 1992-1995), Mentor-of-The-Year (Assoc. of Graduate Engineering Students, Feb. 1996), and the Leadership Award (voted by the senior engineering class, May 1995). Dr. Amin received Best Session Paper Presentation Awards (American Control Conference, 1997) and an AIAA Young Professional Award (St. Louis section, 1991). At EPRI he received several awards including the 2002 President's Award for the Infrastructure Security Initiative, 2000 and 2002 Chauncey Awards (the highest annual EPRI Award, in March 2001 and 2003), and six EPRI Performance Recognition Awards during 1999-2002 for leadership in three areas.

He is a member of the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) at the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Board on Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BMSA) at the National Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, a senior member of IEEE, AAAS, AIAA, ASME, NY Academy of Sciences, SIAM, and Informs. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society's Task Force on Security and Privacy, and the Board of the Center for Security Technologies (CST) at Washington University. Dr. Amin holds B.S. (cum laude) and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in systems science and mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Selected Awards

Selected Recent Publications

Electric Power Systems, Critical Infrastructure Protection and Security

Aircraft Control, Adaptive Combat and Game Theory

Transportation Systems

Leadership and Social Implications of Technology

Selected Presentations

Selected Recordings

Number

Edited Journals

7

Journal Articles

42

Articles in Refereed Conferences

41

Other Major Technical Reports

47

Invited Lectures: Oct. 1992- Oct. 2003

174

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