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).

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