Farshad Fotouhi is the dean of

Wayne State University Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan. It is Michigan's third-largest university. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 350 programs to nearly 25,000 ...

's college of engineering. Farshad Fotouhi joined

in 1988 as faculty in the Department of Computer Science. From 2000 to 2004, he was associate chair of the department, and from 2004 to 2010 he was chair.

Life and career

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He holds a bachelor's in

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from

Western Michigan University Western Michigan University (Western Michigan, Western or WMU) is a public research university in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was initially established as Western State Normal School in 1903 by Governor Aaron T. Bliss for the training of teachers ...

and a

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in Computer Science from the

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. Fotouhi's research includes

biomedical informatics Health informatics is the field of science and engineering that aims at developing methods and technologies for the acquisition, processing, and study of patient data, which can come from different sources and modalities, such as electronic hea ...

, multimedia systems and the Semantic Web. He has published more than 190 papers in academic journals and

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. His research has been supported by the

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, the

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, the

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, Michigan Life Sciences Corridor, as well as

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and other companies. He has been a program committee member for various conferences related to his research interests and is a member of the editorial board of

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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

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workshop on the ''Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics''. He was appointed dean of

's college of engineering in March 2011.

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External links

Fotouhi's official website at Wayne State University
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Life and career

Schooling and research

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