Farnoush Banaei-Kashani

Research Associate, Department of Computer Science
Associate Director of Research, Integrated Media Systems Center
University of Southern California
3737 Watt Way, PHE 334
Los Angeles, CA 90089
banaeika [at] usc [dot] edu
Tel: (213)821 0876, Fax: (213)821 1739

Farnoush Banaei-Kashani's research is focused on applied data management , with special interest in cyber-physical applications that involve close interactions between physical and social systems. His topics include distributed computing, stream data processing, social computing, cloud computing and spatial data management, all in the general area of data management. Most recently, Farnoush's research has generated various enabling data management solutions for the two applications of participatory sensing (more generally known as crowdsourcing ) and geo-social networking (aka location-based social networking ) . Participatory sensing involves participatory acquisition, interpretation, fusion and archival of real-world data (e.g., sound, temperature, texture) in a sufficiently fine spatiotemporal resolution that enable online and offline query and analysis of the real-world events. Geo-social networking extends social networking by leveraging the information about the physical location of the network nodes (people). His work has been supported by grants from CENS (an NSF STC) and JPL as well as USC research centers (CiSoft, METRANS, and IMSC).

Links to: Teaching, Projects, Presentations, and Research

Teaching

Database Systems (CS585) in Spring 2008

Projects

I am currently working as a member of the following on-going projects at InfoLab.

Geospatial Applications

GeoSIM (Geospatial Social Image Mapping) with CENS Urban Sensing
GeoDec (Geospatial Decision Making)
TransDec (Transportation Decision Making)
GeoDA (Geospatial Data Analysis)

Scientific Data Analysis Applications

DOR (Data-driven Oil Recovery)
ProDA (Progressive Data Analysis)

Presentations

Schlumberger SIG GIS, November 2011
USC Interactive Architecture Workshop, April 2011
ESRI Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) Workshop, February 2011
NSF Pervasive Computing at Scale (PeCS) Workshop, January 2011

Research

The papers below are also available in a chronological order at DBLP.

Spatial Databases

F. Banaei-Kashani, C. Shahabi and B. Pan, “Discovering Traffic Patterns in Traffic Sensor Data ”, IWGS 2011 in conjunction with ACMGIS 2011.
U. Demiryurek, F. Banaei-Kashani, C. Shahabi and Anand Ranganathan, “Online Computation of Fastest Path in Time-Dependent Spatial Networks”, SSTD 2011.
A. Akdogan, U. Demiryurek, F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Voronoi-based Geospatial Query Processing with MapReduce ”, IEEE CloudCom 2010 [Best Paper Award].
P. Ghaemi , K. Shahabi, J. Wilson, F. Banaei-Kashani, “Optimal Network Location Queries”, ACMGIS 2010.
U. Demiryurek, F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “A Case for Time-Dependent Shortest Path Computation in Spatial Networks (poster)”, ACMGIS 2010.
B. Pan, U. Demiryurek, F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Spatiotemporal Summarization of Traffic Data Streams ”, IWGS 2010 in conjunction with ACMGIS 2010.
U. Demiryurek, F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Efficient K-Nearest Neighbor Search in Time-Dependent Spatial Networks”, DEXA 2010.
F. Banaei-Kashani, H. Shirani-Mehr, B. Pan, N. Bopp, L. Nocera, C. Shahabi, “GeoSIM: A GeoSpatial Data Collection System for Participatory Urban Texture Documentation ”, Special Issue of IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Databases, June 2010.
C. Shahabi, F. Banaei Kashani, A. Khoshgozaran and S. Xing, “GeoDec: A framework to effectively visualize and query geospatial data for decision-making”, IEEE Multimedia Magazine, July 2010.
L. Kazemi, F. Banaei-Kashani, C. Shahabi and R. Jain, “Efficient Approximate Visibility Query in Large Dynamic Environments”, DASFAA 2010.
U. Demiryurek, F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “TransDec: A Spatiotemporal Query Processing Framework for Transportation Systemss (demo paper) ”, ICDE 2010.
U. Demiryurek, B. Pan, F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Temporal Modeling of Spatiotemporal Networks”, IWCTS 2009 in conjunction with ACMGIS 2009.
H. Shirani-Mehr, F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Efficient Viewpoint Assignment for Urban Texture Documentation ”, ACMGIS 2009.
L. Nocera, A. Rihan, C. Shahabi, S. Xing, A. Khodaei, A. Khoshgozaran, C. shahabi, F. Banaei-Kashani, “GeoDEC: A Multi-Layered Query Processing Framework for Spatiotemporal Data (Demo Paper) ”, ACMGIS 2009.
U. Demiryurek, F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “ER-CkNN: Efficient continuous nearest neighbor query in spatial networks using Euclidian Restriction”, SSTD 2009.

OLAP

C. Shahabi, F. Banaei-Kashani and Kai Song, “On-the-fly Visualization of Scientific Geospatial Data Using Waveltes”, Microsoft e-Science Workshop, December 2008.
C. Shahabi, M. Jahangiri and F. Banaei-Kashani, “ProDA: An end-to-end wavelet-based OLAP system for massive datasets”, IEEE Computer, Vol. 41, No. 4, April 2008.

Peer-to-Peer and Sensor Databases

H. Shirani-Mehr , F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “A Case Study of Participatory Data Transfer for Urban Temperature Monitoring”, W2GIS 2011.
H. Shirani-Mehr , F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Using Location-based Social Networks for Quality-Aware Participatory Data Transfer”, LBSN 2010 in conjunction with ACMGIS 2010.
F. Banaei-Kashani and C.Shahabi, “Fixed-precision approximate continuous aggregate queries in peer-to-peer databases”, CollaborateCom 2010.
H. Shirani-Mehr, F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Efficient Viewpoint Selection for Urban Texture Documentation ”, GSN 2009.
F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Applications of sensor network data management”, Book chapter in Encyclopedia of Database Systems (Eds.: T. Ozsu and L. Liu), Springer, 2009.
F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Case study: Scoop up data from peer-to-peer databases”, Book chapter in Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking (Eds.: X. Shen, H. Yu, J. Buford, M. Akon), Springer, March 2009.
F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Fixed-precision approximate continuous aggregate queries in peer-to-peer databases (poster paper)”, 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'08), April 2008.
F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi. “Partial read from peer-to-peer databases”, Journal of Computer Communications, Vol. 31, No. 2, February 2008.
F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Partial selection query in peer-to-peer databases (poster paper)”, 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'06), April 2006.
F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Efficient flooding in power-law networks”, 22nd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC'03), July 2003.
F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Criticality-based analysis and design of unstructured peer-to-peer networks as complex systems”, 3rd International Workshop on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing (GP2PC) in conjunction with CC-Grid'03, May 2003.
C. Shahabi and F. Banaei-Kashani, “Modeling peer-to-peer data networks under complex system theory”, International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE), Vol. 3, No. 2, November 2007.
F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “SWAM: A family of access methods for similarity-search in peer-to-peer data networks”, 13th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'04), November 2004.
F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Searchable querical data networks”, International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P) in conjunction with VLDB'03, September 2003.
F. Banaei-Kashani, C. Chen and C. Shahabi, “WSPDS: Web Services Peer-to-peer Discovery Service”, International Symposium on Web Services and Applications (ISWS'04), June 2004.

Multimedia Databases

C. Shahabi and F. Banaei-Kashani, “Decentralized resource management for a distributed continuous media server”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), Vol. 13, No. 7, July 2002.

Web Mining

C. Shahabi and F. Banaei-Kashani, “Efficient and anonymous web usage mining for web personalization”, INFORMS Journal on Computing Special Issue on Mining Web-Based Data for e-Business Applications, Vol. 15, No. 2, Spring 2003.
C. Shahabi and F. Banaei-Kashani, “A framework for efficient and anonymous web usage mining based on client-side tracking”, Book Chapter: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2356, 2001.
C. Shahabi, F. Banaei-Kashani, Y. Chen and D. McLeod, “Yoda: An accurate and scalable web-based recommendation system”, 6th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'01), September 2001.
C. Shahabi, F. Banaei-Kashani, J. Faruque and A. Faisal, “Feature Matrices: A model for efficient and anonymous web usage mining”, 12th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (ECWeb'01), September 2001.
C. Shahabi, F. Banaei-Kashani and J. Faruque, “A reliable, efficient, and scalable system for web usage data acquisition”, Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis (WebKDD'01) in conjunction with KDD Conference, August 2001.

Mentees

Nicholas Bopp (undergraduate student)
Ugur Demiryurek (PhD student)
Leyla Kazemi (PhD studnet)
Yosuke Shimizu (MS student)
Houtan Shirani-Mehr (PhD Student)
Sanjay Srinivasan (MS student)(Now at Epic Systems)
Dafei Yin (PhD student)

Services

Co-Chair: IWGS 2011 (inconjunction with ACMGIS)
Program Committee Member: ACS 2012 (in conjunction with SDM), SensorKDD 2011 (in conjunction with KDD), AP2PS 2011, ICDE 2010, AP2PS 2010, AP2PS 2009, SNAS 2009
Referee: TODS, TPDS, TKDE, ACM-MM, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, SIGCOMM, SIGKDD, CIKM, DEXA, SSTDM, USENIX