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| Born | 1957 |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Alma mater | Michigan State University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science, Databases, Data Mining, Semantic Web, Multimedia Systems, and Biomedical Informatics |
| Institutions | Wayne State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Sakti Pramanik |
Dr. Farshad Fotouhi became the eighth dean of Wayne State University's college of engineering in March 2011. Prior to that he was chair of the Department of Computer Science since 2004. Farshad Fotouhi joined Wayne State University in 1988. Before being appointed chair of the Department of Computer Science, he was associate chair from 2000-2004 and a member of the faculty. He received a WSU College of Science Teaching Excellence Award in 1996 and several Best Paper Awards at various national and international conferences. Before joining WSU, he was a faculty member of the Lyman Briggs School at Michigan State University.
Fotouhi was installed as dean by Provost Ron Brown, in order to bring computer science from CLAS to the College of Engineering. But his top priority upon becoming dean was firing a lot of people, including world class renowned researcher Greg Auner (see Crain's Detroit Business: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20130601/NEWS/306029984/ , in order to free up budget money for a construction project to make his officer bigger and luxurious. As Crain's Detroit has reported, one of his firings came very close to causing a silane gas explosion because Fotouhi fired the only man in the entire university who knew how to manage the dangerous chemical.
Dr. Fotouhi's research interests include Biomedical Informatics, the Semantic Web and Multimedia Systems. He has published more than 180 papers in academic journals and conference proceedings. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Drug Abuse, Michigan Life Sciences Corridor, as well as Ford Motor Company and other companies. While at WSU he has secured more than $9 million in research funding and contributions.
Since joining WSU, Dr. Fotouhi has graduated 25 Ph.D. and 30 M.S. students. More than half of his Ph.D. graduates are tenure-track or tenured faculty at institutions in Michigan and across the country. Many of his graduates hold executive positions in industry and corporate America.
Dr. Fotouhi has been a program committee member for various conferences related to his research interests and is a member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Multimedia Magazine, chair of the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems. In recent years, Dr. Fotouhi has organized several workshops including the Workshop on Privacy in Information Society, the IEEE Workshop on Scientific Workflow, and the ACM Workshop on the Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics. He holds a bachelor's in Computer Science from Western Michigan University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the College of Engineering at Michigan State University.
See also
- List of Wayne State University people
- College of Engineering, Wayne State University
References
- Farshad Fotouhi appointed dean of Wayne State University’s College of Engineering
- College of Engineering Dean Select Farshad Fotouhi
- Prof. Farshad Fotouhi's Microsoft Academic Search Page
- Prof. Farshad Fotouhi's Publication List on Google Scholar
- Prof. Farshad Fotouhi's Publication List on DBLP
- Prof. Farshad Fotouhi's Profile on Arnetminer
- Prof. Farshad Fotouhi's Profile on BiomedExperts
- Prof. Farshad Fotouhi's Funded Research
- Prof. Farshad Fotouhi's Students
- Prof. Farshad Fotouhi's Mathematics Genealogy
- Prof. Farshad Fotouhi's AI Genealogy