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!
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.
  1. ACM TOIT
    Hybrid Algorithm Selection and Hyperparameter Tuning on Distributed Machine Learning Resources: A Hierarchical Agent-based Approach
    Esmaeili, Ahmad, Rayz, Julia M., and Matson, Eric T.
    ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 2024
  2. IEEE Access
    A Multi-Section Hierarchical Deep Neural Network Model for Time Series Classification: Applied To Wearable Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition
    Ghorrati, Zahra, Esmaeili, Ahmad, and Matson, Eric T
    IEEE Access 2024
  3. AAMAS
    Holonic Learning: A Flexible Agent-based Distributed Machine Learning Framework
    Esmaeili, Ahmad, Ghorrati, Zahra, and Matson, Eric T.
    In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2024
  4. Systems
    Agent-based Collaborative Random Search for Hyper-parameter Tuning and Global Function Optimization
    Esmaeili, Ahmad, Ghorrati, Zahra, and Matson, Eric T.
    Systems 2023
  5. ACM TAAS
    HAMLET: A Hierarchical Agent-based Machine Learning Platform
    Esmaeili, A., Gallager, J. C., Springer, J. A., and Matson, E. T.
    ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 2022




recent projects


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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.