Cyrus Shahabi

Cyrus Shahabi is an Iranian-American computer scientist and a 2003 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Shahabi received his bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the Sharif University of Technology in 1989, followed by a master's degree and PhD in computer science from the University of Southern California (USC), in May 1993 and August 1996 respectively. He currently serves as director of both the Integrated Media Systems Center and Information Laboratory at USC. He is the author or co-author of more than 300 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Shahabi is a fellow of IEEE, and a recipient of the ACM Distinguished Scientist award in 2009, the 2003 U.S. Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the NSF CAREER award in 2002, and the 2001 Okawa Foundation Research Grant for Information and Telecommunications.

Shahabi is responsible (along with Xiaoming Tian and Wugang Zhao) for introducing a new type of tree structure named TSA-tree, based on wavelets. His other work includes the Clustered AGgregation (CAG) algorithm, and the Spatial Skyline Query.