Shahram Ghandeharizadeh

Biography

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. He was a recipient of the ACM Software System Award 2008 for his contributions to Gamma, a scalable database management system. His research interests include design, implementation and evaluation of novel architectures for high performance data intensive applications, intelligent 3D multimedia displays, multimedia based social networking systems, transaction processing systems, and benchmarking. He has served on the organizing committees of numerous conferences; most recently as the general chair of Holodecks 2023 and VLDB 2019. His activities are supported by several grants from the National Science Foundation, Oracle, 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 served as a member of the Council of Directors of Kodaikanal International School from 2005 to 2008.

Three Recent Publications:
1. Swarical: An Integrated Hierarchical Approach to Localizing Flying Light Specks. In ACM Multimedia, Melbourne, Australia, October 2024. With H. Alimohammadzadeh.
2. Reliability Groups with Standby Flying Light Specks. In ACM MMSys, Bari, Italy, April 15-18, 2024. With H. Alimohammadzadeh, S. Zhu, J. Bai.
3. Force-Feedback Through Touch-based Interactions With a Nanocopter. In IEEE Haptics Symposium, Long Beach, CA, April 7-10, 2024. With Y. Chen, H. Alimohammadzadeh, and H. Culbertson.