Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz

Associate Professor of the Professional Practice

Title Associate Professor of the Professional Practice
Office 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, 3rd Floor, RM324
Email alizadeh@bu.edu
Education Ph.D. The George Washington University
MBA MIT Sloan School of Management
M.S.E.E. Tehran University
B.S.E.E. University of Science and Technology, Iran.

Dr. Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz before joining Boston University was the Chief data officer at Waylens, Inc. in Cambridge, MA, which pushes AI to the edge by building AI-enabled dash cams for the automotive market. Prior to that, he was the Chief scientist at ClimaCell, Boston, working on leveraging cellular network and IoT sensors to predict weather with high accuracy and high spatial resolution. He joined Skyhook Wireless as Chief scientist and the first employee (2004 – 2017), where he built a scientific foundation of Wi-Fi/beacon global localization system. He is renowned for his pioneering work in WiFi/beacon global localization and his patents have been licensed to companies like Apple and Google, and deployed in almost all smartphones, globally. Prior to Skyhook, he was at Hughes Network Systems, responsible for system and modem design of the first three satellite-based mobile networks. He owns 57 US patents. He has been a senior member of IEEE since 2011, and he has been on the steering committees of several localization conferences.

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Scholarly Works

F. Alizadeh-Shabdiz, “Hybrid Localization, WiFi plus GPS”, ION GNSS Webinar, June 9, 2011.
(Journal) K. Pahlavan, T. Morgan, F. Alizadeh-Shabdiz and et al, “WiFi Localization and GNSS”, Inside GNSS, PP 40-48, May 2010.
Panel presentation, “WiFi Localization, Market, Technology, and Future”, ION GNSS 2010, Portland OR, Sept 21-24, 2010.
Panel presentation, “LBS Market is Real”, IEEE SECON 2010, Boston MA, June 21-25, 2010.
F. Alizadeh-Shabdiz, “WiFi Positioning Made LBS Reality”, RF Opportunistic Workshop, June 2010.
F. Alizadeh-Shabdiz, “Opportunistic and Hybrid Localization”, RF Opportunistic Workshop, June 17, 2008.
(Journal) F. Alizadeh-Shabdiz and S. Subramaniam, “Analytical models for single-hop and multihop ad hoc networks,” Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 75-90, Feb. 2006.
F. Alizadeh-Shabdiz and S. Subramaniam, “MAC layer Performance Analysis of Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks”, in Proc. GLOBECOM’04, Huston, Texas, November 2004.
F. Alizadeh-Shabdiz and S. Subramaniam, “Analytical Models for Single-Hop and Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks”, in Proc. Broadnets’04, San Fransisco, CA, October 2004.
F. Alizadeh-Shabdiz and S. Subramaniam, “A Finite Load Analytical Model for the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function MAC”, in Proc. WiOpt’03: Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks, INRIA Sophia-antipolis, France, March 3-5, 2003.
F. Alizadeh-Shabdiz and S. Subramaniam, “On the performance of a new 802.11-based low latency power control MAC protocol for ad-hoc networks”, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 16-20, 2003.
F. Alizadeh, “Two dimensional dynamic channel assignment for wireless mobile high speed data networks”, IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference, RAWCON’02, Boston, Massachusetts, paper M2-2, August 11-14, 2002.
F. Alizadeh and H. Helgert, “Data rate adaptation techniques in third generation wireless packet data networks”, 35^th annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS’01, Baltimore, Maryland, March 21-23, 2001.
F. Alizadeh, “Geo-mobile radio interface specifications: radio subsystem synchronization – Inmarsat-4 packet transfer mode – GMR-05.010”, Hughes Network Systems, Oct. 2000.
F. Alizadeh, “Radio interface specifications: radio subsystem synchronization – ICO packet transfer mode – 05.10”, Hughes Network Systems, Jan. 2000.
S. Gumas, F. Alizadeh, and et.al. “Thuraya mobile satellite system – Sub system design document: synchronization”, Hughes Network Systems, Jan 2000.
F. Alizadeh, “ICO RACH GMSK demodulator design verification tests”, Hughes Network Systems, Document No. 1027552, Nov. 1999.
F. Alizadeh, “Mobilesat MDM RACH firmware detailed design document”, Hughes Network Systems, Document No. 14715, Dec. 1999.

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