Professor of Practice

University of Miami, Miami, USA

Biography

Samiul Amin, is currently Professor of Practice at the University of Miami, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering Department.  He is also the Director of the MS Program in Product Design and Undergraduate Program Director in Chemical Engineering. In January 2024 he Co-Founded Fastformulator Inc which is a company focused on accelerating R&D of formulated products through AI and Machine Learning. Prior to University of Miami, he was Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Manhattan College. At Manhattan College Chemical Engineering Department, Prof. Amin developed and led the Cosmetic and Biopharmaceutical Engineering Concentration area.

Prof. Amin has worked in industry and academia for the past 25 years working across Engineering, R&D, Innovation Management and M&A. He has worked globally in  multinationals such as ExxonMobil, Unilever, L’Oreal and MalvernPanalytical. Prof. Amin’s expertise is in formulation design of cosmetic/consumer, personal care, homecare and biopharmaceutical products, colloids & complex fluids (Surfactants, Polymers and Emulsions), AI/ML, rheology, tribology, advanced characterization. Prof. Amin’s research at University of Miami is focused on formulation design of smart gels and hydrogels and performance optimization of consumer, cosmetic and homecare products based on novel sustainable materials and novel polymer chemistries including stimuli responsive or smart polymers

Prof. Amin received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University, his MS in Chemical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University and his BS in Chemical Engineering from Rutgers University. Prof. Amin also carried out a postdoctoral fellowship in the Soft Condensed Matter Physics Group at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.