Navid Seidi

Curriculum vitae

Education, experience, teaching, service, honors and skills. The publication list is on its own page, and the PDF is the full academic CV.

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Education

  1. January 2022 – Expected December 2026

    Ph.D. in Computer Science

    Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), Rolla, MO, USA

    Dissertation defended and passed September 11, 2026. Degree conferral December 2026.

    Dissertation: “Adaptive Federated Learning for Survival Analysis in Smart Healthcare.” 10 chapters, 278 pages, 180 references.

    Advisor: Dr. Sajal K. Das (Curators' Distinguished Professor, Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair).

    Committee: Ardhendu Tripathy, Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla, Md Arifuzzaman, Cihan Dagli, Satyaki Roy.

    Comprehensive exam passed March 10, 2025; 80.5 graduate credit hours.

  2. 2019

    M.Eng. in Information Technology (Computer Networks)

    Thesis: Pervasive-computing virtual information desk.

  3. 2012

    B.Eng. in Information Technology

Experience

More than twelve years in health IT before the Ph.D., covering EHR and EMR development, systems analysis, and hospital IT management.

  1. January 2022 – Present

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Missouri University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science

    • Federated learning for survival analysis on heterogeneous, non-IID, multi-center clinical data, under Dr. Sajal K. Das in the CReWMaN lab.
    • Peer-to-peer and decentralized federated learning, reputation and trust-aware aggregation, Bayesian partner selection, and privacy preservation.
    • Datasets: SEER breast cancer registries, MIMIC-IV v3.1 (230 care-unit by two-year federated centers), TCGA, Framingham, PBC, SUPPORT. Metrics: C-index, integrated Brier score, AUROC, calibration.
    • Experiments run on The Mill HPC cluster (SLURM, AlmaLinux, NVIDIA V100 GPUs) as large array-job suites.
    • Mentored an undergraduate researcher for more than two years, including the NSF REU Summer 2025 program, to an accepted IEEE Healthcom 2026 paper.

    Tools Python, PyTorch, lifelines, scikit-survival, SLURM, Linux

  2. 2025 – 2026

    Independent consultant and developer

    Independent software engineering

    • Designed and shipped a production oncology EMR and clinical decision support desktop application for a practicing oncologist.
    • Sole developer of a cardiovascular risk screening platform for community health workers, built for a cross-university field study.
    • Smaller web consulting engagements alongside the clinical work.

  3. 2019 – 2021

    IT Manager

    Mehregan Hospital

    • Ran the hospital IT department: systems, network infrastructure, and clinical software.
    • Evaluated and oversaw PACS and EHR/HIS systems and their integrations, and handled vendor evaluation.

  4. 2018 – 2019

    Research Assistant and manager of the research department

    Applied Research Center, Vali Asr Hospital

    • Health informatics research, and management of the research department.

  5. 2014 – 2018

    Founder and lead, Health Informatics Team

    IT Department, Vali Asr Hospital

    • Started the hospital's health informatics team and used IT tools to improve patient flow and clinical workflow.
    • Built an RFID real-time location system for the hospital.
    • Led the hospital workflow smartening project (2018 to 2020) with the SIGNET lab.

    Tools C#, .NET, SQL Server, RFID (UHF), VMware

  6. 2012 – 2014

    Senior EHR Software Developer

    IT Department, Vali Asr Hospital

    • Led the team developing the hospital information system.
    • Joined in 2009 as a junior EHR developer and worked on HIS development through 2012.

    Tools C#, .NET, SQL Server, Swift

  7. 2013 – 2022

    Instructor and freelance software developer

    Programmers House Institute

    • Taught Python, C#, SQL Server, and Swift.
    • Freelance development, including iOS apps: the T-Coding vocabulary platform, the BME insurance application, and the TecTouch food ordering app.

    Tools Python, C#, SQL Server, Swift

Teaching

  1. Spring 2022; Spring 2023; Fall 2023

    Instructor of record, CS 1982 MATLAB Programming Lab

    Missouri University of Science and Technology

    about 105 students across three terms (about 48, 32, and 26)

  2. 2023 to present

    Peer Mentor

    NSF I-Corps Hub: Great Lakes Region

  3. 2013 to 2022

    Instructor, Software development with Python, C#, and Swift; Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server

    Programmers House Institute

  4. 2024 to 2026

    Research mentor

    Missouri S&T, CReWMaN Lab

    One undergraduate researcher mentored for more than two years, including the NSF REU Summer 2025 program, to an accepted IEEE Healthcom 2026 paper.

Service

KindVenueDetail
ReviewingNeurIPS 2026Reviewer, 4 submissions
ReviewingAISTATS 2023Reviewer
ReviewingDiscover Public Health (Springer Nature)Reviewer, 2 manuscripts
ReviewingIEEE conferencesSub-reviewer, decentralized federated learning submissions
Program committeePerAgents 2027 Workshop, IEEE PerCom 2027Technical Program Committee member. Invited and accepted August 2026. Roster at peragents.github.io/2027.
PanelNSF I-Corps Awareness Workshop, Missouri S&TInvited panelist, “Importance of I-Corps for Translating Research” (October 14, 2024; February 14, 2025; September 15, 2025)
MembershipIEEEStudent member since 2023

Honors and awards

  1. 2023

    NSF National I-Corps award

    Award #2330769, $50,000, "I-Corps: An Advanced Analytics Platform for Personalized Treatment." Sajal K. Das PI, Navid Seidi Entrepreneurial Lead. Started June 1, 2023.

  2. 2023

    NSF I-Corps completion certificate

    National I-Corps Summer 2023 Cohort #3, South Regional Node, awarded August 23, 2023. Preceded by the Great Lakes Hub W23 Medical Jumpstart course.

  3. 2024

    NIH/NIA BETA Biomedical Entrepreneurship Training fellowship

    $6,000. Selected; offer declined.

  4. 2024

    CHIL Doctoral Symposium student travel award

    $700, Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning 2024.

  5. 2023

    NSF student travel award, IEEE/ACM CHASE 2023

    $500.

  6. 2026

    NSF student travel award, IEEE/ACM CHASE 2026

    $375.

Skills

Programming languages

  • Python
  • C++
  • SQL
  • R
  • MATLAB
  • Bash
  • C#
  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • LaTeX

Machine learning

  • Deep learning
  • Federated and distributed learning
  • Survival analysis and time-to-event modeling (Cox PH, DeepSurv-style networks)
  • Bayesian methods
  • Reinforcement learning
  • Privacy-preserving machine learning
  • Non-IID and heterogeneity handling
  • Game-theoretic mechanisms
  • Statistical modeling
  • Computer vision basics

Language models and generative AI

  • Transformers
  • LLM fine-tuning (LoRA, PEFT)
  • Prompt engineering
  • Retrieval-augmented generation
  • AI agents and MCP
  • Generative AI

Frameworks and libraries

  • PyTorch
  • PyTorch Lightning
  • TensorFlow
  • Keras
  • JAX
  • MLX
  • Hugging Face Transformers
  • scikit-learn
  • lifelines
  • scikit-survival
  • pandas
  • NumPy
  • SciPy
  • Matplotlib
  • Seaborn

Systems and MLOps

  • Linux
  • Slurm HPC
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes (basic)
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • AWS
  • Snowflake
  • NVIDIA CUDA GPUs
  • NVIDIA Jetson edge deployment
  • CI test suites

Software engineering

  • REST APIs
  • SQLite
  • SQL Server
  • iOS (Swift)
  • Android (Kotlin)
  • Progressive web apps
  • macOS installer packaging
  • OCR
  • Offline speech recognition

Healthcare domain

  • EHR and EMR
  • HIS
  • PACS
  • Clinical workflows
  • Clinical decision support
  • HIPAA and PHI de-identification
  • BAA
  • Oncology (TNM, ECOG)
  • Cardiovascular risk
  • SEER
  • MIMIC-IV
  • TCGA

Leadership

  • Founder
  • NSF I-Corps Entrepreneurial Lead (157 customer-discovery interviews)
  • Team lead of five
  • Hospital IT manager
  • Instructor of record
  • Research mentor
  • NSF proposal drafting

The full academic CV, with the complete publication list, is in the PDF.

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