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Dr. Cyrus Shahabi
Cyrus
  • Director of Information Laboratory (InfoLAB)
  • Professor at USC Computer Science Department
  • Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Geosemble Technologies
  • Education:
    • Ph.D. in Computer Science - University of Southern California (1996)
    • MS in Computer Science - University of Southern California (1993)
    • BS in Computer Engineering - Sharif University of Technology, Iran (1989)
  • Email:
  • TEL: (213) 740-8162


 

 




Dr. Farnoush Banaei-Kashani
Farnoush
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Education:
    • Ph.D. in Computer Science University of Southern California (2006)
    • MS in Electrical Engineering (Computer Networks) - University of Southern California (2001)
    • BS in Computer Engineering - Sharif University of Technology, Iran (1995)
  • Email:
  • TEL: (213) 821-1462 (L)

 

Xiaoyan Zhang
Xiaoyan
  • Research Programmer
  • Education:
    • MS in Computer Science - University of Southern California (2007)
    • BS in Computer Science - Dalian University, China (2005)
  • Email:
  • TEL: (213) 740-8945

   

 

 

 


 

 

Ugur Demiryurek
Ugur
  • Research Assistant
  • Project: Multidimensional Data Analysis (GeoDec)
  • Education:
    • MS in Computer Science - Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey USA (2001)
    • BS in Computer Science -  Turkish Naval Academy, Turkey (1996)     
  • Email:
  • TEL: (213) 821-1462 (L)
   


Leyla Kazemi
Leyla
  • Research Assistant
  • Project: GeoDec
  • Education:
    • BS in  Computer Science , Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran (2005)
  • Email:
  • TEL: (213) 821-1462 (L)


Jeff Khoshgozaran-Haghighi
jeff
  • Summer Internship at Microsoft (Mobile and Local Search Group)
  • Summer Internship at Yahoo! (Behavioral Targeting Group)
  • Research Assistant
  • Project: GeoDec
  • Education:
    • BS in Computer Engineering - Sharif University of Technology, Iran (2003)
    • MS in Computer Science The George Washington University (2005)
  • Email:


Hyunjin Yoon
Hyunjin
  • Teaching Assistant
  • Project: Immersidata Acquisition, Query and Analysis (Sensor Data Streams), CiSoft
  • Education:
    • MS in Computer Science - University of Southern California (2003)
    • MS in Computer Science and Engineering - Ewha Womans University, S. Korea (1998)
    • BS in Computer Science and Engineering - Ewha Womans University, S. Korea (1996)
  • Email: hjy@usc.edu
  • TEL: (213) 821-1462 (L)


Songhua Xing
  • Research Assistant
  • Project: GeoDec
  • Education:
    • MS in Computer Science, University of Southern California (2007)
    • BS in Computer Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China (2005)
  • Email: sxing@usc.edu
  • TEL: (213) 821-1462 (L)
Houtan Shirani-Mehr
  • Research Assistant
  • Project: GeoDec
  • Education:
    • BS in Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran (2004)
    • MS in Computer Science, University of California Irvine, USA (2006)
  • Email: hshirani@usc.edu
  • TEL: (213) 821-1462 (L)

Bei Pan

  • Research Assistant
  • Project: GeoDec
  • Education:
    • BS in Computer Science - Peking University, China (2008)
  • Email: beipan@usc.edu
  • TEL: (213) 821-1462 (L)

Ali Khodaei

  • Research Assistant
  • Project: GeoDec, CiSoft
  • Education:
    • BS in Computer Engineering - Iran National University (Shahid Beheshti), Iran (2003)
    • MS in information and Computer Science - University of California at Irvine (2006)
  • Email: khodaei at usc.edu
  • TEL: (213) 821-1462 (L)

Ling Hu

  • Research Assistant
  • Project: GeoSIM
  • Education:
    • BS in Computer Science, Beijing Information Science&Technology University, Beijing, China, 2000
    • MS in Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts&Telecommunications, Beijing, China, 2004
    • MS in Computer Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 2009
  • Email:
  • TEL: (213) 821-1462 (L)

Afsin Akdogan

  • Research Assistant
  • Project: Traffic
  • Education:
    • Meng in Computer Science, Cornell University, New York, 2009
    • BS in Computer Science, Hacettepe University, Ankara - Turkey, 2006
  • Email: aakdogan at usc.edu
  • TEL: (213) 821-1462 (L)

Seyed Jalal Kazemitabar

  • Teaching Assistant
  • Project: GeoDec, CiSoft
  • Education:
    • MS in Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran (2009)
    • BS in Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran (2006)
  • Email:
  • TEL: (213) 821-1462 (L)

 

 


Grady Laksmono
Chi
  • Research Assistant
  • Project: GeoSIM
  • Education:
    • BS in Computer Science - California State University, Los Angeles (2009)
  • Email: laksmono at usc.edu
  • TEL: (213) 821-1462 (L)

Nima Najafian
Chi
  • Research Assistant
  • Project: Traffic
  • Education:
    • BS in Computer Science - Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston (2009)
  • Email: najafian at usc.edu
  • TEL: (213) 821-1462 (L)

 

 

 


 

 

 

Mihir Sheth
Mihir Sheth
  • Project: GeoSIM and Privacy/Security
  • Education:
    • Major: B.S. Computer Science, 2011
  • Email: mihirshe@usc.edu

 

Vanessa Kuroda
Vanessa Kuroda
  • Project: GeoSIM and Privacy/Security
  • Education:
    • Major: B.S. Electrical Engineering, 2010
  • Email: vkuroda@usc.edu

 

Nicholas Bopp
Nicholas Bopp
  • Project: GeoSIM and Privacy/Security
  • Education:
    • Major: B.S. Computer Engineering Computer Science, 2012
  • Email: nbopp@usc.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

Billy Cao
Billy Cao
  • Internship
  • Education:
    • Arcadia High School
  • Email: the.billy.c@gmail.com

 

 


 

 


Tim Marsh

  • Email: tmarsh@nus.edu.sg
  • Now Assistant Professor in the Communications and New Media Programme , National University of Singapore

 



 

Mehrdad Jahangiri

  • Email:
  • Graduated in Aug 2008
  • Now at NetSeer(Sr. Software Engineer)

SunHee Yoon

  • Email: sunheeyo@usc.edu
  • Graduated in May 2008

Mehdi Sharifzadeh

  • Email:
  • Graduated in May 2007
  • Now at Google

Kiyoung Yang

Farnoush Banaei-Kashani

  • Email: f_banaei@yahoo.com
  • Graduated in December 2006
  • Now at Infolab (Postdoctoral Research Associate)

Ching-Chien (Jason) Chen


Mohammad-Reza Kolahdouzan

  • Email:
  • Graduated in August 2004
  • Position immediately after graduation: Yahoo!
  • Current position: Fox Interactive Media, Fox Audience Network

Shu-Yuen Dean Yao (Didi Yao)

  • Email:
  • Graduated in August 2003
  • Position immediately after graduation: Intel
  • Now at VMware, Inc. (Product Management Liaison)

Yi-Shin Chen


Maytham H. Safar


Ali Dashti


Mohammad Alshayeji

 

 



Arjun Rihan: Pixar Animation Studios,Technical Director.

Yosuke Shimizu: BEANCUBE.

Erdem Ergin: Wolverine Trading, LLC. Software Engineer.

Fernando Arreola: BOEING

Ning Jiang: PayPal of Ebay, Inc.

Farid Parvini: Ph.D student, USC. Work at Dentistry 21

Shirin Eghtesadi:www.teradyne.com

Rolfe Schmidt

Beom Kun Kim: InfoLab , USC

Soojung Hyun: Helio

Sahar Mastoureshgh : Warner Bros

Minyoung Mun : PHD Student, UCLA

Farnaz Azmoodeh : Google

Bahareh Navai : DELUXE DIGITAL STUDIOS

Dimitris Sacharidis : PHD Student in Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Jigesh Vora : Wilshire Associates

Hezhi (Eddy) Ai : Alcatel

Yi-Wen Chang : Integrated Decision Systems [Tel:(310) 478-4015 ext 240]

Brian Ellenberger : Georgia Tech. (PhD Student)

Adil Faisal : Microsoft

Jabed Faruque : NCR

Shuping Jia : Intuit, Inc.

Ning Jiang : Synopsys, Inc

Chen-Ling (Ariel) Lin :

Ching-Sung Lin : Cisco

Rodrigo Lode : Microsoft

Soham Mehta : ebay

William C.J. Meyer : Technology Consultant

Seong Rim Nam : Fetch Technologies

Saifur Rahman : NCR

Nadeem Rana : NCR

Vishal Shah : MBA at Univ. of Michigan Business School

Gautam Shanbhag : Amazaon

Michael (Jooso) Song : General Electrics

Chung-hao Tan : IBM Almaden

Wugang Zhao : Oracle [Tel:(650) 607-5593]

Hong Zhu : Network Associates [Tel:(310) 737-1647]

Jessie Chen : Symantec Corporation [Tel:(310) 449-4987]