Shahram Ebadollahi is a PhD candidate in the Digital Video and Multimedia Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He received his BSc in Telecommunications Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic in 1993, and his MS in EE from Columbia University in December 1998. He joined the DVMM group as a PhD student in Summer 1999 where he works under the supervision of professor Shih-Fu Chang. Shahram is ineterested in Multimedia Information Retrieval, Signal and Image Processing and Computer Vision. He is specifically interested in Medical Multimedia Content management. His PhD work focuses on Summarization, Indexing, and Content-Based retrieval of Medical Videos such as Echocardiograms. This work is part of the Columbia Health Care Digital Library project, PERSIVAL, sponsered by "Digital Library Initiative-2" led by NSF.

shahram AT ee.columbia.edu