Parham Aarabi
{{Short description|Canadian professor and entrepreneur}}
Parham Aarabi ({{langx|fa|پرهام اعرابی}}, born August 25, 1976) is a professor and entrepreneur from Toronto, Canada.{{cite web|url=http://p.arh.am|title=Artificial Perception Laboratory - People|work=University of Toronto|accessdate=31 Oct 2011}}
Career
Aarabi is a professor at University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair in Internet Video, Audio, and Image Search. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.{{cite web|url=http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/profile-eng.aspx?profileID=611|title=Chairholders Profile|work=Canada Research Chairs|accessdate=15 March 2010}} He is the inventor of numerous patents and author of over 80 publications most of which focus on audio, image and video processing. His recent work has focused on new image processing techniques that detect faces and facial features, as well as new video search technologies for online video-sharing websites. He is the founder and CEO of ModiFace, a leading provider of Augmented Reality technology which was acquired in 2018 by L'Oreal.{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/16/17131260/loreal-modiface-acquire-makeup-ar-try-on|title=L'Oreal Acquires Major AR Company|work=Modiface|accessdate=15 March 2010}} Aarabi has won several teaching and lecturing awards, including an international award from the IEEE.{{cite web|url=http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/~parham/index2.html|title= Professor Parham Aarabi profile|work=University of Toronto|accessdate=15 March 2010}} In 2005, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.{{cite web|url=http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/?year=2005 |title=2005 Young Innovators Under 35 |publisher=Technology Review | year=2005 | accessdate=August 15, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/Profile.aspx?TRID=83|title=Parham Aarabi : Sharpening a computers listening skills|work=Technology Review|accessdate=15 March 2010}} He also received the 2007 Premier's Catalyst Award for Innovation (a $200,000 Ontario Government prize for young innovators).{{cite web|url=http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/Innovation_Awards_bd1.asp|title=PREMIER'S CATALYST AWARDS|work=Ministry of Research and Innovation|publisher=Government of Canada|accessdate=15 March 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615025610/http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/Innovation_Awards_bd1.asp|archivedate=15 June 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://www.canadianimmigrant.ca/immigrantstories/career/article/1901|title=Top teacher|last=Janani|first=Shabnam Janet|work=Canadian Immigrant|accessdate=15 March 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211181110/http://canadianimmigrant.ca/immigrantstories/career/article/1901|archivedate=11 February 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2008/06/25/2008-06-25_website_reveals_cosmetic_surgery_results.html|title=Website reveals cosmetic surgery results with touch of a button|last=Pentler |first=Amanda L. |date=11 August 2005|work=New York Daily News|accessdate=15 March 2010}} His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Discovery Channel, and Scientific American.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/12/technology/what-s-next-amid-the-cacophony-a-quiet-conversation.html |title=WHAT'S NEXT; Amid the Cacophony, a Quiet Conversation|last=Eisenberg|first=Anne|work=New York Times|accessdate=15 March 2010 | date=12 August 2004}}{{cite book|last=Aarabi|first=Parham |title=The art of lecturing: a practical guide to successful university lectures and business presentations|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2007|pages=154–157|isbn=978-0-521-70352-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XoQuUoYwGSkC&pg=PA156}}
Bibliography
- The art of lecturing: a practical guide to successful university lectures and business presentations, Cambridge University Press (2007)
- Phase-based speech processing, (with three other authors) World Scientific (2006)
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Category:Canadian people of Iranian descent
Category:Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Category:Canada Research Chairs