Captain Mahdi Al-Husseini is an active-duty US Army aeromedical evacuation officer (67J) and HH-60M Black Hawk helicopter pilot-in-command. He has logged 800+ flight hours in 20+ models of aircraft and possesses FAA commercial ASEL/S and AMEL/S and CFI ratings. Mahdi received a BS in Biomedical Engineering, BS in Public Policy, and MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, and an MS in Aeronautics & Astronautics from Stanford. He is currently a PhD student at the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory (SISL), where he develops models and algorithms for semi-decentralized multi-agent systems in communication constrained environments. Mahdi is a registered patent agent, licensed professional engineer, and inventor with 30+ patents and patent applications, several of which have been acquired by the military and industry. He is a high-altitude military parachutist with 100+ jumps and has an affinity for flying multi-engine seaplanes and designing custom electronic displays using vintage cold-cathode tubes.
December 2024
My paper on translating emergent behaviors realized from artificial intelligence models into military medical capabilities has been selected as the honorable mention in the future operations category of the Major General "Harry" Greene Acquisitions Writing Award competition.
December 2024
Two utility patents granted in the last month, both of which relate to aircraft systems for education and safety.
November 2024
I was admitted into the Stanford PhD program for Aeronautics & Astronautics at the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory (SISL)!
October 2024
My paper on semi-Markovian planning for maritime ambulance exchange points was accepted into the 37th Annual Conference for Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-25), and was selected for the innovative deployment award.
September 2024
Another utility patent granted for hoist stabilization systems and methods, this time using control moment gyroscopes.
September 2024
My paper on operational and technical considerations for a proposed joint medical evacuation operating concept in the Indo-Pacific has been accepted to the US Army War College's Parameters journal.
June 2024
My paper on the maritime ambulance exchange points has been accepted into the Air Medical Journal (AMJ) and will be published as the cover feature for the Spring 2025 edition.
February 2024
My military unit, C/3-25 Lightning DUSTOFF, was collectively awarded the Airbus-sponsored Robert M. Leich Army Aviation award for innovation during MEDEVAC Projects Week, a military exercise I proposed and organized in October 2023.
January 2024
My paper on novel hierarchical frameworks for the joint wildfire surveillance and suppression problem has been accepted into the Journal for Aerospace Information Systems (JAIS).