Ahmad Esmaeili
School of Computing, Wichita State University.
229, Knoy Hall of Technology.
401 N. Grant St.
West Lafayette, IN 47906
I am an Assistant Professor of Practice in Applied AI at Purdue University. Before joining Purdue, I was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computing at Wichita State University from 2024 to 2026, where I led the Synergistic Intelligence and Multiagent Systems (SIMS) Research Lab. My work focuses on distributed artificial intelligence, exploring multi-agent systems, machine learning, and collaborative approaches to designing intelligent, autonomous technologies for next-generation cyber-physical applications. I earned my Ph.D. from the Department of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, building on a prior graduate degree in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.
I am always eager to work with motivated graduate and undergraduate students. If you are currently at Purdue University and interested in working on cutting-edge research in multi-agent systems and distributed artificial intelligence, please feel free to reach out to me via email. I will review your request carefully and follow up with strong fits for further discussion.
news
| Aug 2026 | I moved back to Purdue University! |
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| Apr 2026 | One paper accepted in AAMAS’s Eighteenth Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) |
| Jan 2026 | One paper submitted to ACM Computing Surveys. |
| Jul 2025 | One paper accepted in IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ) |
| Nov 2024 | Our paper on Hybrid Algorithm Selection and Parameter Tuning has been accepted in the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. |
| Sep 2024 | Our paper on Multi-section Hierarchical Deep Neural Network has been accepted in IEEE Access. |
teaching
CNIT110: AI Fundamentals (Fall 2026) – Purdue
CNIT355: Mobile Programming (Fall 2026) – Purdue
CS672: Fundamental of AI Agents (Fall 2025) – WSU
CS797O: Neural Networks and Deep Learning (Fall 2024) – WSU
CS560: Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Fall 2024, Spring 2025) – WSU
CNIT175: Visual Programming (Fall 2020 – Summer 2024) – Purdue
Introduction to Machine Learning and Deep Learning (Summer 2019) – KSW-Purdue
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2020) – KSW-Purdue
selected publications
For the most up-to-date list of publications, please visit the Google Scholar page.
- ACM TOITHybrid Algorithm Selection and Hyperparameter Tuning on Distributed Machine Learning Resources: A Hierarchical Agent-based ApproachACM Transactions on Internet Technology 2024
- IEEE AccessA Multi-Section Hierarchical Deep Neural Network Model for Time Series Classification: Applied To Wearable Sensor-Based Human Activity RecognitionIEEE Access 2024
- AAMASHolonic Learning: A Flexible Agent-based Distributed Machine Learning FrameworkIn Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2024
- SystemsAgent-based Collaborative Random Search for Hyper-parameter Tuning and Global Function OptimizationSystems 2023
- ACM TAASHAMLET: A Hierarchical Agent-based Machine Learning PlatformACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 2022
recent projects
Holonic Learning
A research on designing a collaborative and privacy-focused framework for training deep learning models, leveraging structured self-similar hierarchies and individual model aggregation within holons to address scalability, resource distribution, and privacy concerns in the context of increasingly distributed machine learning paradigms.
Distributed Cross-Individual Human Activity Recognition
A research on a collaborative distributed learning approach rooted in multi-agent principles for decentralized Human Activity Recognition, leveraging wearable sensor technologies to uphold privacy, eliminate external server dependencies, and demonstrate superior effectiveness in local and global generalization.
Agent-based Distributed ML Algorithm Selection and Tuning
A research on developing a fully automated and collaborative agent-based mechanism for ML algorithm selection and hyperparameter tuning, utilizing resources organized distributedly by a hierarchical machine-learning platform.
Agent-based Modelling of Distributed Machine Learning Systems
A research on building a hybrid machine learning platform that leverages Multi-Agent Systems to autonomously organize and democratize geographically distributed ML resources and offers analytical capabilities for robust research assessment across various algorithms and datasets.