Shahram Ebadollahi received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University in the city of New York, where he was a Graduate Research Assistant in the Digital Video and MultiMedia lab of Prof. Shih-Fu Chang.  He joined the IBM T.J. Watson research center in Hawthorne, New York in early 2005 as a Research Staff Member.
He is currently conducting research in the broad field of multimedia content analysis, understanding and indexing. He is primarily interested in the domain of healthcare multimodal content management. 
Shahram grew up in Tehran, Iran and received his undergraduate degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic Institute.
He lives with his wife and two daughters in Westchester, New York.