Biography

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Education

Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh completed his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology the top rank technical university of Iran in 1989. Subsequently, he was ranked fifth in the nationwide graduate entrance exam of the Iranian universities in Electrical Engineering, Control Systems. In 1991, he started his graduate studies in Electrical Engineering at the Amirkabir University of Technology where he received an MS degree with the most honors in 1993. His MS dissertation was on the analysis and modeling of nonlinear systems with chaotic behavior. In the same year, he was ranked first in the PhD entrance exam of the Electrical Engineering department of Amirkabir University of Technology.

Later that year, he was admitted to the department of EE-Systems at the University of Southern California. The department of EE-Systems and the graduate school of Engineering at USC are ranked among the top ten Electrical and Computer Engineering programs of the US. He received Engineer and PhD degrees from the same department in 1995 and 1997, respectively. In 1995, he was ranked first in the PhD screening exam of the department in Control Systems. In 1997, the department nominated him to Phi Kappa Phi honor society. His PhD dissertation was on the modeling of self-similar teletraffic with applications in packet loss reduction and average queuing delay prediction.

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Experience

Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh has more than sixteen years of academic, hands-on, consulting, technical management, and business development experience in different branches of computer engineering, science, and industry. He has been with the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of University of California, Irvine since January 2002. His areas of research at UCI have revolved around the networking and signal processing aspects of multimedia content distribution over wired/wireless networks, connectivity of wireless ad-hoc networks, wireless networks congestion control, intelligent teletraffic modeling/control, and statistical/graph theoretical data mining techniques. Since 2004, he has also been a consulting scientist at the Boeing company working on mobile ad-hoc networks.

In 2001, he founded TierFleet, Inc. an infrastructure startup company offering scalable, high-performance solutions with no single point of failure for the database back-end tier of multi-tier architectures. At TierFleet, he was involved with different activities of a typical startup company ranging from architecting the solution, leading the R&D team, hands-on programming, market opportunity validation, defining the product line, defining service strategy, analyst briefing, end-user interaction, fund raising, and investor interaction.

He was with Procom Technology from 1995 to 2001. He joined Procom as a senior software engineer in September 1995 working on different research projects ranging from Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) to intelligent network communications schemes. He was, then, promoted to the principal engineer in charge of the network division of software engineering. He moved to product development in early 1998 where he last served as senior product manager in charge of Network Attached Storage (NAS) line of products, the NetFORCE filers. Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh played a key role in the NAS strategy of Procom Technology since its early pre-IPO days.

Prior to joining Procom Technology, he was with NEC Electronics America as a consulting engineer where he developed a distributed client-server model including the graphical user interface for the hot line group, with Information Sciences Institute of University of Southern California as a graduate research assistant where he worked on the design and implementation of video-teleconferencing project funded by Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), and with IDIC as an automation engineer where he worked on programmed logic controllers. He also had a number of other software and hardware engineering positions working on design and assembly programming of embedded systems utilizing Intel 80x86 family of processors.

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Activities

He has published about fifty refereed journal/conference papers, twenty five technical reports associated with his consulting tasks, a book chapter, and is the inventor of three patents including TierFleet patents on Multi-Tier Computer Systems. He is a senior member of IEEE and is with the editorial boards of two of its journals. He has also been with the TPC of various IEEE/ACM conferences and refereed for seven other IEEE journals. Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh represented Procom Technology in Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) from 1997 to 2001, was one of the initiators of NAS workgroup of SNIA, and served as the chairperson of NAS Systems' Management workgroup from 1999 to 2001. He has participated as the panelist in prestigious IDC's European Storage Symposium and Search Storage Online events. In the past, he has been a member of scientific advisory board of Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the USC, American Management Association (AMA), and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

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