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Masood Mortazavi, Adjunct FacultyAreas of Interest: Distributed Storage Systems, Distributed and Cloud Computing, Parallel Computing, Software and Systems Architecture, Data Processing Systems, Abstract Theories of Computation, Technology and Society, Technology and Innovation, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of AI, Content and Media, Economics and Strategic Management. Education: Post-Graduate Studies, UC Berkeley, Graduate Group in Logic and Methodology of Science Overview: Dr. Masood Mortazavi is adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. Masood's 30+ years of computing experience began with programming head-less computers to solve physical-chemistry problems that can today be solved, painlessly, on graphing calculators. The target massive computers, in 1979, were situated in the computer rooms at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Since that time, Masood has explored various fields of science, engineering and management. He has worked on technology projects and collaborations with multiple companies based in the US, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, UK, Japan and China. Examples include: Siemens, Ericsson, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Vodafone and Huawei. He has also worked or consulted for multiple Silicon Valley companies. Masood has contributed to product R&D and business strategy at Huawei Technologies, MySQL, Sun Microsystems, Tecknowledge and Hughes Aircrafts Satellite Systems. Masood was instrumental in the development of the first J2EE reference implementation at Sun Microsystems where he also led a large team of developers contributing to various open-source projects hosted by Apache Software Foundation, PostgreSQL and MySQL communities. Prior to moving to work for Sun's Silicon Valley offices, Masood studied advanced metamathematics and logic and taught Physics at UC Berkeley and was an investigator on DARPA-funded projects. Masood is a master inventor and holds multiple patents in the area of distributed computing and data systems. In 2011, Masood joined Yahoo, where he serves as the Senior Principal Architect with Cloud Platform and Services Group. At Yahoo, he leads various advanced projects in cloud (storage and computing) services, technologies and platforms. |