Farnoush Banaei-Kashani

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Colorado Denver
Founder and Director of Big Data Management and Mining Lab (BDLab)
Director of BDSE Program (A Big Data Science and Engineering GAANN Fellowship Program)
Director of DDC Program (A Data-Driven Cybersecurity GAANN Fellowship Program)
Director of "Data Science in Biomedicine" MS Track

1380 Lawrence Street, Suite 800, LW-803
Denver, CO 80204
myfirstname.mylastname [at] ucdenver [dot] edu
Tel: (303)315-0116, Fax: (303)315-1410

My research is focused on fundamental and applied data management with special interest in Data-driven Decision-making Systems (DDSs), i.e., systems that automate the process of decision-making based on data. Toward this end, my long-term research objective is to introduce novel solutions for all components of the DDS data management cycle (namely, data collection, transfer, preprocessing, storage for querying, analysis and mining, visualization, and actuation) under various combinations of the Big Data V3 challenges relevant for the desired DDS applications. In the past, I have worked on a number of DDSs from various application areas (including, health, energy, safety and security, transportation, and scientific computing). My research has been supported by grants from both governmental agencies (NSF/CENS, NIH/CTSI, DOT/METRANS, DOJ/NIJ, NASA/JPL) and industry (Google, IBM, Chevron, NGC).

Links to: Publications, Research Projects, Presentations, Teaching, Services

Publications

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

Data Collection

F. Banaei-Kashani et al., “Monitoring Mobility Disorders at Home using 3D Visual Sensors and Mobile Sensors (demo paper)”, Wireless Health 2013.
H. Shirani-Mehr, F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Users Plan Optimization for Participatory Urban Texture Documentation”, GeoInformatica, Vol. 17, Issue 1, January 2013.
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.
H. Shirani-Mehr, F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Efficient Viewpoint Assignment for Urban Texture Documentation”, ACMGIS 2009.
H. Shirani-Mehr, F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Efficient Viewpoint Selection for Urban Texture Documentation”, GSN 2009.

Data Transfer

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, “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)”, ICDE 2008.
F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi. “Partial read from peer-to-peer databases”, Journal of Computer Communications, Vol. 31, No. 2, February 2008.
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, “Partial selection query in peer-to-peer databases (poster paper)”, ICDE 2006.
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 and C. Shahabi, “Efficient flooding in power-law networks”, PODC 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, May 2003.
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.

Data Preprocessing

F. Banaei-Kashani, M. Asghari, M Rahmani, C. Shahabi, Lisa Brenskelle,“SDPF: A Framework for Online, Real-time Cleansing of Upstream Operating Data”, SPE Western Regional Meeting, April 2013.

Data Storage for Querying

F. Banaei-Kashani, P. Ghaemi, B. Movaqar, S.J. Kazemitabar , “Efficient Maximal Reverse Skyline Query Processing”, Geoinformatica, Vol 21, Issue 3, pp. 549-572, July 2017.
P. Ghaemi , K. Shahabi, J. Wilson, F. Banaei-Kashani, “A Comparative Study of Two Approaches for Supporting Optimal Network Location Queries”, GeoInformatica, Vol. 18, Issue 2, April 2014.
Seyed Jalal Kazemitabar, F. Banaei-Kashani, Seyed Jalil Kazemitabar, Dennis McLeod, “Efficient Batch Processing of Proximity Queries by Optimized Probing”, ACMGIS 2013.
P. Ghaemi , K. Shahabi, J. Wilson, F. Banaei-Kashani, “Continuous Maximal Reverse Nearest Query on Spatial Networks”, ACMGIS 2012.
H. Shirani-Mehr, F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Reachability Query in Large Evolving Contact Networks”, VLDB 2012.
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.
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 Systems (demo paper)”, ICDE 2010.
F. Banaei-Kashani and C.Shahabi, “Fixed-precision approximate continuous aggregate queries in peer-to-peer databases”, CollaborateCom 2010.
U. Demiryurek, B. Pan, F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “Temporal Modeling of Spatiotemporal Networks”, IWCTS 2009 in conjunction with ACMGIS 2009.
L. Nocera, A. Rihan, 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.
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.
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.
F. Banaei-Kashani and C. Shahabi, “SWAM: A family of access methods for similarity-search in peer-to-peer data networks”, CIKM 2004.
F. Banaei-Kashani, C. Chen and C. Shahabi, “WSPDS: Web Services Peer-to-peer Discovery Service”, ISWS 2004.

Data Analysis and Mining

S. Kulkarni and F. Banaei-Kashani , “MVSC-Bench: A Tool to Benchmark Classification Methods for Multivariate Spatiotemporal Data”, SSTD 2017.
S. Helmi and F. Banaei-Kashani, “Efficient Processing of Spatiotemporal Pattern Queries on Historical Frequent Co-Movement Pattern Datasets”, Workshop on Mobility Analysis for Spatiotemporal and Social Data ( MATES 2017 ) held in conjunction with VLDB 2017.
M. Mannino, J. Fredrickson, F. Banaei-Kashani, I. Linck and R. Alqurashi, “Development and Evaluation of a Similarity Measure for Medical Event Sequences”, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), Vol 8, Issue 2, 2017.
A. Nguyen, R. Alqurashi, Z. Raghebi, F. Banaei-kashani, A. C. Halbower, and T. Vu, “A Lightweight and Inexpensive In-ear Sensing System For Automatic Whole-night Sleep Stage Monitoring”, ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys 2016). New York, NY, 2016. Best Paper Award
S. Helmi and F. Banaei-Kashani, “Mining Frequent Episodes from Multivariate Spatiotemporal Event Sequences” , International Workshop of GeoStreaming (IWGS 2016) held in conjunction with ACMGIS 2016.
A. Nguyen, R. Alqurashi, Z. Raghebi, F. Banaei-kashani, A.C. Halbower, T. Dinh, and T. Vu, “In-ear Biosignal Recording System: A Wearable For Automatic Whole-night Sleep Staging”, Workshop on Wearable Systems and Applications (WearSys 2016).
M. Mannino, J. Fredrickson, I. Linck, R. Alqurashi and F. Banaei-Kashani, “Development and Evaluation of Similarity Measures for Medical Event Sequences”, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2015), Dallas, Texas, 2015.
F. Banaei-Kashani, C. Shahabi, S. Kim, L. Nocera, G. Constantinou, Y. Lu, Y. Cai, G. Medioni, R Nevatia, “Janus - Multi Source Event Detection and Collection System for Effective Surveillance of Criminal Activity”, Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS), Vol 10, No 1, pp. 1-22, 2014.
F. Banaei-Kashani, C. Shahabi and B. Pan, “Discovering Traffic Patterns in Traffic Sensor Data”, IWGS 2011 in conjunction with ACMGIS 2011.
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”, CoopIS 2001.
C. Shahabi, F. Banaei-Kashani, J. Faruque and A. Faisal, “Feature Matrices: A model for efficient and anonymous web usage mining”, ECWeb 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) in conjunction with KDD Conference, August 2001.

Data Visualization

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.
C. Shahabi, F. Banaei-Kashani and K. Song, “On-the-fly Visualization of Scientific Geospatial Data Using Waveltes”, Microsoft e-Science Workshop, December 2008.

Research Projects

Current Projects

Past Projects:

iWatch (Multi-Modal and Multi-Source Event Detection System for Effective Surveillance of Criminal Activities)

POCM (Point-of-Care Mobility Monitoring)

DOR (Real-time Data-driven Oil Recovery Optimization)

TransDec (Real-time Transportation Decision Making)

GeoSIM (Crowdsourcing Documentation of the Urban Texture - A Mobile Computing Application)

GeoDA (Geospatial Data Analysis)

GeoDec (Geospatial Decision Making)

Presentations

Schlumberger SIG GIS
Interactive Architecture Workshop
ESRI Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) Workshop
NSF Pervasive Computing at Scale (PeCS) Workshop
CEAS Seminar Series

Teaching

Introduction to Data Science (CSCI4800/5800 in Fall 2016)
Database System Concepts (CSCI3287) in Spring 2016
Data Mining and Analytics (CSCI5702) in Fall 2015
Database Systems (CSCI5559) in Spring 2015
Special Topics: Advanced Data Stores (5800) in Fall 2014
Database Systems (CS585) in Spring 2014
Database Systems (CS585) in Fall 2013
Database Systems (CS585) in Spring 2008

Services

Editorial: GeoInformatica Special Issue on GeoStreaming (Guest Editor)
Organization Committee Member: ACMGIS 2017 (Sponsorship Chair), BSD 2017 (Co-Chair), IWGS 2017 (Co-Chair), ACMGIS 2016 (Publicity Chair), BSD 2016 (Co-Chair), IWGS 2016 (Co-Chair), IWGS 2015 (Co-Chair), ACMGIS 2015 (Publicity Chair), IWGS 2013 (Co-Chair), IWGS 2012 (Co-Chair), IWGS 2011 (Co-Chair)
Program Committee Member: WISE 2016, ACMGIS 2015, GeoRich 2015 (in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS), ACMGIS 2014, GeoRich 2014 (in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS), ACMGIS 2013, MDM 2013 (Demo Track); MobiDE 2013 (in conjunction with SIGMOD); ACMGIS 2012; SensorKDD 2012 (in conjunction with KDD), 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

Students

Current Students

Past Mentees:

Leyla Kazemi (PhD studnet)

Houtan Shirani-Mehr (PhD Student)

Ugur Demiryurek (PhD student)

Bei Pan (PhD Student)

Dafei Yin (PhD student)

Yosuke Shimizu (MS student)

Laksh Gupta (MS student)

Nicholas Bopp (undergraduate student)