Ali (Jeff) Khoshgozaran Haghighi

 

Note: This page is old.
Please visit my new homepage.
Experience:

  Senior Engineer, Samsung Electronics R&D
   Program Manager intern, Bing Maps, Microsoft. Summer 2009.
   Software Developer intern, Behavioral Targeting, Yahoo!  Summer 2007.
   Research Assistant, University of Southern California, Summer 2005-Summer 2010.

         
Education:

  PhD in Computer Science, University of Southern California Advisor: Cyrus Shahabi  GPA:3.92
                  Qualifying exam Committee: Len Adleman, Shri Narayanan, Aiichiro Nakano, Hossein Hashemi
   MS in Computer Science The George Washington University (2005) Advisor: Poorvi Vora GPA:4.0
   BS in Computer Engineering - Sharif University of Technology (2003) Advisor: Hassan Mirian GPA:3.0
 
     My PhD research focused on Geospatial Information Management, Spatial Databases, Location Privacy and Data Compression. I have been working on the GeoDec project at Infolab since Aug 2005. I worked with this man! Check out my research page for more information about my past research.

My more recent interests include Social Networking Location-Based Services, Internet and Interactive TV and Social Media. I am currently with Samsung's R&D lab working on Interactive/Internet TV.



Ever wondered what my real name is? Take this for a read!

What's new
(May 30, 2009) How cool is this for my third guitar!
 (May 13, 2009) Having Len Adleman as your qualifying exam committee member is an experience of a life-time
(Feb 18, 2009) My gig is now complete with this!
 (Oct 17, 2007) If only my submission to SIGMOD is accepted!
 (May 1, 2007) I am soon leaving to Sunnyvale for my internship at Yahoo! SDS.
(Feb 13, 2007) If you are a recruiter checking this website, Welcome! I would be happy to hear from you soon! :)
 (Jan 18, 2007) If only Hilbert curves would do a better job to fill a 2-D space...I had my paper done by now!
(Dec 8, 2006) I got this sweet thing as a birthday gift!
(Sep 15, 2006) My first paper as the first author got accepted to SSTDM.
  (Aug 3rd, 2006) Cyrus is not around and I got a chance to post some stuff here.
(Aug 1st, 2006) I finally decided to have a good-looking homepage.