Farnoush Banaei-Kashani

Postdoctodal Research Associate

Department of Computer Science

3737 Watt Way, PHE 334

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA 90089

banaeika [at] usc [dot] edu

Tele: (213)821 0876, Fax: (213)821 1739

 

I am a postdoctoral research associate of computer science at Information Laboratory (InfoLab), University of Southern California. I am interested in developing formal solutions for application-driven problems in the area of data management, with an emphasis on group and/or distributed data management. Currently, my research focuses on enabling urban documentation, which involves acquisition, interpretation, fusion and archival of real-world phenomena (e.g., sound, temperature, texture) in sufficiently fine spatiotemporal resolutions to enable online and offline query and analysis of the real-world events. My 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, 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)
• GeoDA (Geospatial Data Analysis)
• IFM (Intelligent Fleet Management)

Scientific Data Analysis Applications

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

Research

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

Spatial Databases

• C. Shahabi, F. Banaei Kashani, A. Khoshgozaran and Songhua Xing, “GeoDec: A framework to effectively visualize and query geospatial data for decision-making”, Submitted for review.
• 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, “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, Due May 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, Due 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

• 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

• Program Committee Member: ICDE 2010, AP2PS 2009, SNAS 2009
• Session Chair: CIKM 2004
• Referee: TODS, TPDS, TKDE, ACM-MM, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, SIGCOMM, SIGKDD, CIKM, DEXA, SSTDM, USENIX