Ahmed Imteaj, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor | Faculty Fellow of Institute for Smarter Cities, Spaces, and Health
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Boca Raton Campus
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, ³Ô¹ÏÍø International University
Research Interest
- Multimodal Foundation Models & Generative AI: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), Multimodal LLMs, and Generative AI
- Trustworthy & Secure AI: AI Safety, Alignment, Robustness, and Reliability
- Foundation Model Dynamics & Control: Model Behavior, Adaptation, Reasoning, and Controllability
- Efficient & Distributed Intelligence: Edge AI, Federated Learning, and Distributed Foundation Models
- 3D/4D Vision & Spatial Intelligence: Computer Vision, Dynamic Scene Reconstruction, and Spatial Reasoning
- AI-Powered Digital Twins: Urban, Environmental, and Physical-World Digital Twins
- Agentic & Autonomous AI: Intelligent Agents, Reasoning, Planning, and Decision-Making
- Quantum AI: Quantum Machine Learning and Quantum-Enhanced Intelligence
- AI for the Physical World: Smart Cities, Environmental Resilience, Autonomous Systems, Underwater Monitoring, Healthcare, and Critical Infrastructure
Current Sponsored Research
- NSF CRII: RI: Federated Meta-Learning for Cross-Network Crime Analytics in Interdependent Environments
- NSF NAIRR Pilot: ARMOR-HAL: Unified Defense for Adversarial Robustness and Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models
- Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Project: CoastSight: Generative and Vision-Language AI for Disaster Intelligence
- NSF CRA: Vision-Language Model for Urban Intelligence
- NAIRR Start-Up: Physics- and GIS-Grounded Synthetic Disaster Video for Training Video-Language Models in Coastal Emergency Response
Personal Website
Research Lab Website
- Secure Prediction, Edge AI and Multimodal LLM Lab: