Amin Talei is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University Malaysia (MUM). Amin was the head of the Civil Engineering Discipline from Sep-2019 to Dec-2022 and the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) chair from 2018 to 2020. Amin also led the mentor-mentee initiative for undergraduate students in the School of Engineering during 2018-2019.

Amin is undertaking research in two main areas:

(1) Sustainable Urban Water Management, which is mainly focused on nature-based solutions for urban water management. This includes topics such as biofiltration systems, swales, and rain gardens.

(2) Rainfall-Runoff Modelling and Flood Forecasting, which is focused on developing both physically-based models and artificial intelligence techniques to better predict river flows and floods. His primary research goal is to introduce and lead the projects that can contribute to the sustainability of our environment, specifically water bodies.

Amin has had three successful government grants (2 FRGS grants from Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia and one eScience from Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Malaysia), and one research grant from Advanced Engineering Platform of Monash University as the project leader. He has been also the co-researcher in another 4 government grants, 1 industry grant, and 1 international grant from Europe Union. To date, Amin has graduated 5 postgraduate students as the main supervisor. In 2017, Amin was awarded the supervisor of the year award by Monash University Postgraduate Association (MUPA). Moreover,  his research outputs are published in high-ranked journals and reputable international conference proceedings.