Hossein Rahnama
| Hossein Rahnama | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 8, 1980 (age 37) |
| Alma mater | Ryerson University (BC S, MS, PhD) |
| Occupation | Founder and CEO of Flybits, Co-Founder and Director of Research and Innovation at Ryerson University Digital Media Zone, Assistant Professor at the RTA School of Media, Director of Research at Ryerson Centre for Cloud and Context-Aware Computing (RC4) |
Hossein Rahnama (born May 8, 1980) is a recognized figure in ubiquitous and pervasive computing. The Smithsonian named Rahnama as one of the top six innovators to watch. Rahnama was a Council Member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Rahnama is a visiting scholar at the Human Dynamics group at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Ryerson University.
Rahnama is the Founder & CEO of Flybits, a context-as-a-service company that enables enterprises to unify disparate sources of data and create highly personalized customer experiences. Rahnama is also an assistant professor at the RTA School of Media, and the Co-Founder/Director of Research at the Ryerson Centre for Cloud and Context Aware Computing (RC4) in Toronto, Canada.
In 2004, Rahnama completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Ryerson University. He continued to attend Ryerson for his doctoral degree and postdoctoral work in Electrical and Computer Engineering. During his studies, Rahnama received a number of academic awards and grants for his research, including being a semi-finalist for the business plan competition at Harvard Business School for his innovative research on Flybits in 2008.
As an undergraduate student at Ryerson University, Rahnama began his career at Rogers Communications as a wireless applications developer in 2000 under the supervision of Brad Fortner. In 2003, he worked at Alpha Global Labs as a software and knowledge engineer, working on medical expert systems and the applicability of mobile devices in medical settings.
Prior to his doctoral studies at Ryerson, Rahnama was a mobile applications architect at Primus Telecommunications in London, England. From 2007 to 2010, Rahnama served as the Vice President of Research and Innovation at Appear Networks located in Kista, Sweden, where he participated in a successful European Research Project (MUSIC). In 2009, Rahnama completed his doctoral studies at Ryerson and in 2010, he co-founded the Ryerson Ryerson Digital Media Zone.
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