Shahram Ghandeharizadeh
Dept: Computer Science
Office: SAL 208
Phone: 213-740-4781
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, in 1990. Since then, he has been on the faculty at the University of Southern
California. In 1992, Dr. Ghandeharizadeh received the National Science Foundation Young Investigator's
Award for his research on the physical design of parallel database systems. In 1995, he received an award
from the School of Engineering at USC in recognition of his research activities.
His primary research interests include design and implementation of multimedia storage managers, parallel database systems, and active databases.
He has served on the organizing committees of numerous conferences and was the general
co-chair of ACM Multimedia 2000.
His activities are supported by several grants from the National Science Foundation,
Department of Defense, Microsoft,
BMC Software, and Hewlett-Packard. He is the director of the
database laboratory
at USC. He was a member of ACM SIGMOD executive committee and the
Editor-in-Chief of ACM SIGMOD DiSC from 2003 to 2006.
He also serves as a member
of the Council of Directors of Kodaikanal International School.
Recent Publications:
1. "To Share or Not To Share Storage in Mesh Networks: A System Throughput Perspective,"
USC Database Laboratory Technical Report Number 2008-02. A shorter version appeared in International Workshop on Data Management for Wireless and Pervasive
(with S. Shayandeh, and T. Helmi).
2. "Cooperative Caching Techniques for Continuous Media in Wireless Home Networks,"
USC Database Laboratory Technical Report Number 2008-01. A shorter version appeared in First International ACM Conference on Ambient Media and Systems, Quebec City, Canada, February 11-14, 2008
(with S. Shayandeh).
3. "AL$MONY: Exploring Semantically-Assisted Matching in an XQuery-Based Data Mapping Tool,"
USC Database Laboratory Technical Report Number 2007-02. International Workshop on Semantic Data and Service Integration (SDSI 2007), co-located with VLDB, Vienna, Austria, September 23, 2007
(with M. Carey, K. Mehta, P. Mork, L. Seligman, and S. Thatte).
Other publications of DBLAB.
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