Presenter

Shahram Ghandeharizadeh has been on the faculty of the USC Computer Science Department since 1990. In the mid 1990s when VHS and BETA tapes were dominant, his research group designed and implemented Mitra, the first streaming software system with the ability to scale to thousands of nodes (licensed by Panasonic). He has contributed to several pioneering systems, earning him the prestigious ACM Software System Award in 2008. FLSs are the latest addition to his body of work, supported by two NSF grants. He is actively cultivating a collaborative community to advance the development and realization of Dronevision and Holodeck systems.