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Abbas Rafii
Executive Vice President
Dr. Rafii is Executive Vice President and one of the founders of Canesta, Inc. He has extensive background in system engineering and business management. His current focus is directing the system architecture group, evaluating customer solutions and developing image processing algorithms for the company's electronic perception technology. Earlier, he directed the development of Projection Keyboard application. He received his MS and Ph.D. in EECS from Stanford University.
He was a founder and held the position of Vice President in Penware and atPos (now part of Symbol). He recruited the team and directed the design and development of the company's PDA, Point of Service, enterprise, and e-commerce applications. He provided technical support in closing large deals and started several technology and business development initiatives in the company.
Earlier, he was a software scientist and an architect of heterogeneous object databases at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Prior to that, he was a system performance specialist at Hewlett-Packard's commercial and UNIX operating systems labs. He has published papers on 3D vision applications, system performance analysis and heterogeneous databases. He has also taught Computer Science at University of Oklahoma, U.C. Davis and Santa Clara University. He has authored and been granted several patents. | 