Education
He holds a bachelor"s in Computer Science from Western Michigan University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from the College of Engineering at Michigan State University.
He holds a bachelor"s in Computer Science from Western Michigan University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from the College of Engineering at Michigan State University.
Farshad Fotouhi joined Wayne State University 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 chairman Schooling and research
Fotouhi"s research includes biomedical informatics, multimedia systems and the Semantic Web.
He has published more than 190 papers in academic journals and conference proceedings.
His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Drug Abuse, Michigan Life Sciences Corridor, as well as Ford Motor Company and other companies. In recent years, Doctor Fotouhi has organized several workshops including the Workshop on Privacy in Information Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Workshop on Scientific Workflow, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) workshop on the Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics.
He was appointed dean of Wayne State University"s college of engineering in March of 2011.
He has been a program committee member for various conferences related to his research interests and is a member of the editorial board of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Multimedia Magazine, chair of the Steering Committee of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Multimedia, and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems.