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Cyrus Shahabi is currently an Associate Professor and the Director of the Information Laboratory (InfoLAB) at the Computer Science Department and also a Research Area Director at the NSF's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California. He is also the CTO and co-founder of Geosemble Technologies, a USC spin-off. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 1989 and then his M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in May 1993 and August 1996, respectively. He has two books and more than hundred articles, book chapters, and conference papers in the areas of databases, GIS and multimedia. Dr. Shahabi has been the sole principle investigator of five NSF grants and has continuously received funding from several other agencies such as NASA, NIH, DARPA, AFRL, and DHS as well as several industries such as Google, Microsoft, NCR and Chevron. He is currently an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) and on the editorial board of ACM Computers in Entertainment magazine. He is the founding chair of the IEEE NetDB workshop and also the general co-chair of ACM GIS 2007, 2008 and 2009. He regularly serves on the program committee of major conferences such as VLDB, ACM SIGMOD, IEEE ICDE, ACM SIGKDD, and SSTD. Dr. Shahabi is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award as well as the U.S. Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
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