Name Hossein Rahnama | Education Ryerson University | |
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Born May 8, 1980 (age 44) ( 1980-05-08 ) Alma mater Ryerson University (BC S, MS, PhD) Occupation Research and Innovation Director at Ryerson University Digital Media Zone, Assistant Professor at the RTA School of Media, Managing Director at Ryerson Centre for Cloud and Context-Aware Conmputing (RC4), CEO and Founder of Flybits | ||
Hossein rahnama 2012 ryerson alumni achievement award recipient
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.
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- Hossein rahnama 2012 ryerson alumni achievement award recipient
- Tedxryersonu hossein rahnama ubiquitous systems evolution of context aware computing
- Education
- Career
- Awards and recognition
- Membership in Professional Societies
- References
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.
Tedxryersonu hossein rahnama ubiquitous systems evolution of context aware computing
Education
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.
Career
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.
In 2013, Rahnama initialized the opening of the Ryerson Centre for Cloud and Context-Aware Computing, where he acts as Director of Research. Inspired by his PhD work on contextual awareness and ubiquitous computing, Rahnama founded Flybits that same year. The context-as-a-service product simplifies how data is converted into intelligence. Flybits enables enterprises to harness all sources of data — proprietary, public, from device sensors and real time user behavior — to deliver personalized mobile experiences. In November 2015 Deloitte named Flybits a “Company to Watch,” and in June 2016 Gartner selected the company as one of four “Cool Vendors” in the platform-as-a-service category. Flybits has offices in Toronto, the San Francisco Bay Area, and London, UK.
Rahnama promotes experiential learning and is interested in involving undergraduate students in research and innovation projects from early stages of their careers. Rahnama is also an advocate for the Canadian-European research collaborations in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, where he has collaborated with more than 14 industry partners across Europe, including companies in Sweden and Norway.