Mahdi Al-Husseini

Mahdi Al-Husseini, from Douglasville, Georgia, is pursuing a PhD in aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford School of Engineering and an MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He earned bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering and public policy and a master’s degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford. Mahdi develops artificial intelligence models and algorithms that coordinate evacuation platforms to save lives on the battlefield. His research has been featured in the Journal of Aerospace Information Systems and the Air Medical Journal, and in the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence conference proceedings, among other venues. Mahdi is an active-duty captain in the U.S. Army, where he serves as an aeromedical evacuation officer (67J) and an HH-60M Black Hawk helicopter pilot-in-command with more than 800 flight hours. He is a registered patent agent, a professional engineer, and an inventor with 30-plus patents and patent applications, many of which have been acquired by the military and industry.