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Mehdi Sharifzadeh
mehdi ∂ shzadeh•com
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Research Interests
Spatial Databases, Spatio-temporal Databases, Geospatial Information Processing, Computational Geometry, Data Mining, Sensor Network Databases, Stream Databases
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science May
2007
University
of Southern California,
Advisor: Professor Cyrus Shahabi
M.Sc. in Computer Engineering - Software October 1998
Sharif
University of Technology,
Thesis: “ParLEDA: A
Library for Parallel Processing in Computational Geometry”
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering - Software February
1996
Sharif
University of Technology,
Thesis: “Parallel
Processing in Automatic Persian Numeric Text Recognition’’
Key Courses
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Advanced Database Systems
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Data Mining for Smart Oilfield
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Computer Communications
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Multidimensional Databases
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Computational Geometry
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Advanced Operating Systems
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Information Integration on Web
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Advanced Artificial Intelligence
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Analysis of Algorithms
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Computer Skills
Operating Systems: UNIX (Solaris and LINUX) (scripting + admin.), Microsoft Windows
Languages: C/C++, Java, Web-prg. (JavaScript, JSP,
Java Servlet,
Databases: ORACLE 10g, IBM Informix Database Server, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server
Tools: Google Maps API, Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Compiler Design (Yacc and Lex), Parallel Simulation (PVM and MPI), Computational Geometry (LEDA and CGAL), Lotus Domino, ORACLE designer/developer
Work Experience
Graduate
Research Assistant Jan. 2002 – May 2007
IMSC (Integrated
Faculty Member
and Technical Manager Dec.
1998 – Dec. 2002
Managed a team of 7 software engineers and 10 operators to analysis, design, implement and deploy subsystems of IAU’s integrated enterprise information system (ORACLE designer/developer)
Founder and Managing Director Dec.
1999 – Dec. 2002
RaayGostar
Information Technology Company,
Designed and developed web-based products (Java)
Project
Leader/Web Developer Aug. 1998 – Jan. 1999
KAFA System
Company,
Designed and developed a web-based information system for IAU libraries (ORACLE web development tools)
Project Leader Jun
1994 - Aug 1998
Pegah Computer
Company, R&D Division,
Implemented
localized solutions for Sun OpenLook, Motif, and text terminal emulators,
Implemented subsystems of an integrated information system for Iranian Ministry
of Agriculture (Informix Dynamic Server and Informix 4GL)
Key Projects
TerraWorld - ISI: Geospatial data integration – contrived novel geospatial queries and proposed optimal algorithms using satellite images and vector data (USGS, TIGER, NAVTEQ shape files, Google, MS) (http://infolab.usc.edu/OSR/)
RTDM - CiSoft (USC/Chevron): Real-time data management of sensor data streams for a smart oil field – participated in the design of an OLAP approach to scientific data analysis of Chevron datasets (MS .NET)
AIMS - IMSC: Management of Immersidata – managed the design and implementation of AIDA, a data analysis tool for the data streams of immersive environments to study the user’s behavior (Java 3D and ORACLE)
SNDB - InfoLab: Sensor network databases – co-managed the design and implementation of a sensor network database system for remote environment monitoring (Berkeley Motes)
Teaching Experience
Teaching
Assistant Spring
2003, 2004, 2005
Advanced Database Systems (CSCI-585),University of Southern California,
Instructor 2000 – 2002
Theory of
Languages and Machines & Internet Engineering,
Teaching
Assistant 1993, 1994, 1998
Numeric Computation, Discrete Structures
& Parallel Processing, Sharif
University of Technology,
Awards and Honors
o Selected one of the top 10 students in Iranian National Mathematics Olympiad, 1989, 1990.
o Ranked 21st in
o Having two papers selected as the bests of ACM GIS’02 and ACM GIS’04.
Publications
o M. Sharifzadeh, C. Shahabi, The Spatial Skyline Query, VLDB 2006.
o M. Sharifzadeh, C. Shahabi, Additively Weighted Voronoi Diagrams for the Optimal Sequenced Route Query, STDBM 2006.
o M. Sharifzadeh, M. Kolahdouzan, C. Shahabi, The Optimal Sequenced Route Query, VLDB Journal, 2006.
o M. Sharifzadeh, C. Shahabi, Utilizing Voronoi Cells of Location Data Streams for Accurate Computation of Aggregate Functions in Sensor Networks, GeoInformatica, Volume 10, Number 1, pages 9-36, March 2006.
o M. Sharifzadeh, C. Shahabi, C. A.
Knoblock, Learning Approximate Thematic Maps from Labeled Geospatial Data, a
chapter in Next Generation Geospatial Information: From Digital Image Analysis
to Spatiotemporal Databases, Peggy Agouris and Arie Croituru Eds.,
o M. Sharifzadeh, F. Azmoodeh, C. Shahabi, Change Detection in Time Series Data Using Wavelet Footprints, Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD’05), pp. 127-144, Angra dos Reis, Brazil, August 2005.
o M. Sharifzadeh, C. Shahabi,
Supporting Spatial Aggregation in Sensor Network Databases, Proceedings of the
12th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM
GIS'04),
o M. Sharifzadeh, C. Shahabi, B. Navai, F. Parvini, A. A. Rizzo, AIDA: an Adaptive Immersive Data Analyzer, The 30th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB’04), Toronto, Canada, September 2004, (demonstration).
o M. Sharifzadeh, C. Shahabi, C. A. Knoblock, Learning Approximate Thematic Maps from Labeled Geospatial Data (Extended Abstract), International Workshop on Next Generation Geospatial Information (NG2I'03), Cambridge (Boston), Massachusetts, U.S.A., October 2003.
o C. Shahabi, M. Sharifzadeh, A. A. Rizzo, Modeling Data of Immersive Environments, ACM First International Workshop on Immersive Telepresence (ITP’02), Juan Les Pins, France, December 2002.
o C. Shahabi, M. R. Kolahdouzan, M. Sharifzadeh, A Road Network Embedding Technique for K-Nearest Neighbor Search in Moving Object Databases,, GeoInformatica, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2003.
o A. A Rizzo, T. Bowerly, J. G. Buckwalter, M. Schultheis, R. Matheis, C. Shahabi, U. Neumann, L. Kim, M. Sharifzadeh, Virtual Environments for the Assessment of Attention and Memory Processes: The Virtual Classroom and Office, Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technology (ICDVRAT’02), Veszprem, Hungary, 2002.
o C. Shahabi, M. R. Kolahdouzan, M. Sharifzadeh, A Road Network Embedding Technique for K-Nearest Neighbor Search in Moving Object Databases, Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS’02), McLean, VA, U.S.A., pp. 94-100, November 2002.
o M. Ghodsi, M. Sharifzadeh, ParLEDA: A Library for Parallel Processing in Computational Geometry, International Journal of Engineering, Volume 16, No. 2, Transaction B, July 2003.
Research Services
Student Volunteer: SIGMETRICS’03
Co-Reviewer: SIGMOD’04, ICDE’04&06, ACM GIS’04, CIKM’03&06, SSTD’05, GeoInformatica, SenSys’04, COOPIS’03&04, ICPS’05, TIME’05, MIS’05, CVDB’05