Meet the experts
Participant Info
- Prefix
- Dr.
- Name
- Shashi Shekhar
- Title
- Shashi Shekhar McKnight Distinguished University Professor, Department of Computer Science
- Organization
- University of Minnesota
- Address
- 4-192, Keller Hall, 200 Union St. SE
- City
- Minneapolis
- State
- Minnesota
- Country
- United States of America
- Zip Code
- 55455
- Phone
- 612-624-8307
- shekhar@cs.umn.edu
Personal Info
- Photo
- Areas
- Bio
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/