Saeed Rahimi is an associate professor with the Graduate Programs in Software, School of Engineering at the University of St. Thomas. Dr. Rahimi has over 30 years of experience in academia and industry focusing on Database Management systems, Database Administration, Distributed Database Systems, Repositories, Data Dictionaries, and Information Engineering. He has spoken in many National and International Conferences and has published many articles in management and scientific journals. He has taught graduate level system courses at the University of St. Thomas and the University of Minnesota since 1981. His current research focus includes distributed database systems, web databases, metadata, and peer-to-peer databases. His previous professional experience includes a number of management and research positions within Fortune 100 companies.
He co-founded InfoSpan (in 1988), DWSoft Corporation (in 1997), and SRDBSoft (in 2009), companies specializing in database management systems design and development, metadata management for data warehousing, and database management consulting services. Dr. Rahimi has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from University of Minnesota.