Javed Mostafa

Professor Mostafa completed his PhD in information science at the University of Texas at Austin in 1994, with a focus on developing query models for video information.  Professor Mostafa came to U of T  from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he served as a Professor and the founding Director of an interdisciplinary informatics training program called the Carolina Health Informatics Program.  At UNC, Professor Mostafa held the McColl Term Professorship position during multiple intervals.  Previously, at Indiana University, Bloomington, Professor Mostafa held the Victor H. Yngve Endowed Professorship and he also served as an Associate Dean of Academics and an Associate Dean of Research.  At U of T he directs the Laboratory of Applied Informatics Research (LAIR).  Javed is currently a Professor and the Dean of the Faculty of Information.  He is also the co-founder of two U.S.-based companies: KeonaHealth and Cymantix.  

Papers : Thought-pieces (samples)

• Documents and(as) Machines
• Collaboration, Self-Reflection, and Adaptation in Robot Communities
• Perennial, Permuted, and Pervasive Search in Ambient Intelligence

Papers: Experimental studies (somewhat old, but relevant)

• Deepening the Role of the User: Neuro-Physiological Evidence as a Basis for Studying and Improving Search
• Simulation Studies of Different Dimensions of Users' Interests and their Impact on User Modeling and Information Filtering

Relevant Inventions (patents):

• Search and visualization
• Human-robot collaboration using MDL
• Secure cyberinfrastructure for research and learning