26 April 2021
Electronics | 2021 Young Investigator Award—Winner Announced
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Electronics 2021 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Amir H. Gandomi.
Dr. Amir H. Gandomi is a Professor of Data Science at the Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Dr. Gandomi’s research interests are in artificial intelligence, big data analytics, machine learning, genetic programming, evolutionary computation, and their applications in smarts cities and systems. Dr. Gandomi received his PhD in 2015 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, which have been collectively cited more than 20,000 times (Hirsch index of 66). He is clearly a rising star in the field of Computational Intelligence and Data Analytics. Despite his young age, Dr. Gandomi has been the recipient of several academic prizes, including the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for AUD 400,000, the BEACON distinguished research fellowship for USD 120,000, and the Highly Cited Researcher Award for four consecutive years, 2017 to 2020. This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Gandomi for his outstanding achievements.
As the awardee, Dr. Amir H. Gandomi will receive an honorarium of CHF 1800, a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge without a fixed deadline in Electronics after peer review.
We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent nominations.
Electronics 2021 Young Investigator Award Evaluation Committee