{"id":25397,"date":"2021-04-01T16:08:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T20:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/?p=25397"},"modified":"2025-03-20T15:59:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T19:59:28","slug":"farshid-alizadeh-shabdiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/2021\/04\/01\/farshid-alizadeh-shabdiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"BU MET Professor with Deep Industry Experience Holds 57 Patents Licensed by Apple, Google and Others<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz<\/strong>
\nProfessor of Practice<\/strong>
\nPhD, George Washington University; MBA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Alfred P. Sloan School of Management); MSEE, Tehran University; BSEE, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran<\/em><\/p>\n

What is your area of expertise?<\/strong>
\nI have specialized in a variety of areas. These include artificial intelligence; machine learning and deep learning; beacon positioning systems and the Global Positioning System (GPS); signal processing; and networking.<\/p>\n

Please tell us about your work. Can you share any current research or recent publications?<\/strong>
\nI hold 57 US patents in the area of beacon positioning. The patents have been licensed by companies such as Apple and Google. I am also a two-time recipient of the MIT Sloan School of Management Leadership Fellowship Award, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).<\/p>\n

My work history can be summarized as follows. Before joining BU, I worked at Waylens, Inc., as chief data officer and chief scientist. There I focused on machine learning and analytics, as well as B2B business development in the area of intelligent video security for fleets of vehicles. Prior to that, I was chief scientist at ClimaCell, where I was responsible for analyzing crowd-sourced environmental data to develop high-accuracy weather prediction services for business decision making.<\/p>\n

Previously, I was chief scientist at Skyhook Wireless, Inc. (now Liberty Media), where I oversaw R&D, machine learning, and analytics related to the company\u2019s positioning systems and their integration with GPS. I was a pioneer in global Wi-Fi\/beacon positioning systems and location intelligence. I started my career as part of the system and modem design team for the first three satellite-based mobile networks at Hughes Network Systems.<\/p>\n

How does the subject you work in apply in practice? What is its application?<\/strong>
\nI have been working in industry for the last 25 years. My technical and research work has been directly applied to products and has always addressed real-world problems.<\/p>\n

What courses\u00a0do you teach at MET?<\/strong>
\nI teach\u00a0<\/span>Machine Learning (MET CS 767),<\/a> as well as\u00a0<\/span>Data Analysis and Visualization with R (MET CS 555)\u00a0<\/span><\/a>and\u00a0<\/span>Foundations of Analytics with R (MET CS 544).<\/a><\/p>\n

What \u201creal-life\u201d exercises do you bring to class?<\/strong>
\nI bring many real-life examples to the class, for example building AI at the edge; AI-enabled cameras based on TPU technology; analyzing huge amounts of crowd-sourced environmental data; and behavioral analysis based on location samples of millions of mobile users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BU MET Professor with Deep Industry Experience Holds 57 Patents Licensed by Apple, Google and Others Dr. Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz Professor of Practice PhD, George Washington University; MBA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Alfred P. Sloan School of Management); MSEE, Tehran University; BSEE, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran What is your area of expertise? I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2828,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10838,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30043,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397\/revisions\/30043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}