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Name
Shashi Shekhar
Title
Shashi Shekhar McKnight Distinguished University Professor, Department of Computer Science
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University of Minnesota
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4-192, Keller Hall, 200 Union St. SE
City
Minneapolis
State
Minnesota
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United States of America
Zip Code
55455
Phone
612-624-8307
Email
shekhar@cs.umn.edu

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Prof. Shekhar was elected an IEEE Fellow and received the IEEE Technical Achievement Award for contributions to spatial database storage methods, data mining, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He has a distinguished academic record that includes 200+ refered papers and multiple books including a textbook on Spatial Databases (Prentice Hall, 2003, ISBN 0-13-017480-7) as well as an Encyclopedia of GIS (Springer, 2008, isbn 978-0-387-30858-6). He is serving as a member of the mapping science committee of the NRC/NAS (National Research Council National Academy of Sciences) (2004-9), and the steering committee of the ACM Workshop on GIS. He is also serving as a co-Editor-in-Chief of Geo-Informatica: An International Journal on Advancement in Computer Science for GIS. He has served as a member of the NRC/NAS Committee to review basic and applied research at National Geo-spatial-Intelligence Agency, the Board of Directors of University Consortium on GIS (2003-4), the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Eng. as well as the IEEE-CS Computer Science and Engineering Practice Board. He served as a program co-chair for ACM International Workshop on Adv. in GIS (1996). Interests: Spatial Databases, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Spatial Data Mining

Website
www-users.cs.umn.edu/~shekhar/
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