Shashi Shekhar

EDUCATION

• Ph. D., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, December 1989.
• M. S., Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, May 1989.
• M. S., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, May 1987.
• B. Tech., Computer Science, I. I. T. Kanpur (India), May 1985.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• July 2001 - now, Univ. of Minnesota, Professor, Computer Sc. Dept.
• July 1995 - June 2001, Univ. of Minnesota, Associate Professor, Computer Sc. Dept.
• Dec. 1989 - June 1995, Univ. of Minnesota, Assistant Professor, Computer Sc. Dept.
• 1997-98, United Nations Development Programme, Tecnical Advisor on Spatial Querying, GIS-Based Technologies for Local Land Development Planning (IND/95/002).
• 1995, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Technical Advisor on Scaling up Networks Engine.
• 1993-95, Minnesota Dept. of Transportation, Technical Advisor (Spatial Databases) to Strategis Research Initiatives Programme.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 1996-98.
• Program chair, ACM Intl. Conf. on Geographic Information Systems, 1996.
• Guest editor, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Special issue on Geographic Info. Systems (GIS) 1996-97.
• Steering Committee Member, National Center on Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) Conf. on Navigable Databases, 1996.
• Editor, IEEE-Computer Society Computer Sc. and Eng. Practices Publication Board, 1995-97.
• Vice Chair (Publicity) for the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Tools for AI, 1995.
• Co-organizer, Mini-track on Neural Networks in Business, HICCS-1996; American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Workshop on Integrating Symbolic Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (1992); and Workshop on Neural Networks at the University of Minnesota (1991-93).
• Program Committee and Referee for numerous Journals (e.g. IEEE Computer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering), Conferences (IEEE Intl. Conf. on Data Eng., IEEE Intl. Conf. on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Very Large Database Conf., National Conf. of American Association for Artificial Intelligence), and Federal Agencies (N.A.S.A, N.S.F., U.S.D.O.T.).

AWARDS AND HONORS

A DOZEN REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS (Out of 100)

• Spatial Databases: Accomplishments and Research Directions, (with S. Chawla et al.), IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Eng., Jan-Feb. 1999.
• Declustering and Load-Balancing Methods for Parallelizing Geographic Information Systems, (with S. Ravada, et al.), IEEE Transactions in Knowledge and Data Eng., July-Ag., 1998. (A summary of results appeared in Intl Symp. on Large Spatial Databases 1995, Springer Verlag LNCS 951).
• Experiences with Data Models in Geographic Information Systems, (with D. Liu, et al.), Communications of the ACM, April 1997, Vol. 40, No. 4, (A summary of results appeared in the 2nd World Conf. on Integrated Design and Process Technology, 1996).
• CCAM: A Connectivity-Clustered Access Method for Networks and Network Computations, (with D. Liu), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Eng., January 1997, Vol. 9, No. 1 (A summary of results appeared in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Data Eng. 1995.)
• Parallelizing a GIS on a Shared Address Space Architecture, (with S. Ravada, et al.), IEEE Computer (Special issue on Shared Memory Multiprocessors), Volume 29, No. 12, December 1996.
• Partitioning Similarity Graphs: A Framework for Declustering Problems, (with D. Liu), Information Systems: An Intl. Jr., Volume 21, Number 4, Pergamon Press, September 1996 (A summary of results appeared in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Data Eng. 1995.)
• An Evidential Reasoning Approach to Attribute Value Conflict Resolution in Database Integration, (with E. Peng Lim, et al.), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Eng., Vol. 8, No. 5, October 1996 (A Summary of the results appeared in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Data Eng. 1994.)
• A Scalable, Highly Parallel Formulation of the Backpropagation Algorithm for Hypercubes and Related Architectures, (w/ V. Kumar et al.), IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distr. Systems, October 1994.
• Learning Transformation Rules for Semantic Query Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach, (with B. Hamidzadeh), IEEE Transactions Knowledge and Data Eng. (Special Issue on Discovery in Databases), Oct. 1993.
• Specification and Analysis of Real-Time Problem Solvers, (with B. Hamidzadeh), IEEE Transactions on Software Eng., October 1993.
• Generalization by Neural Networks, (with B. Amin), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Eng., special issue on self-organizing data and knowledge representations, Volume 4, Number 2, April 1992.
• A Model of Trade-offs between Optimization and Execution costs in Query Processing, (with J. Srivastava, et al.), North Holland Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 8, 1992 (also appeared in Proc. Intl. Conf. on VLDB 1988).

SELECTED GRANTS

• P.I., Databases for Spatial Graph Management, $103,647 National Science Foundation, 1996 - 99.
• Co-P.I., High Performance Geographic Information Systems for DIS $248,000, Army Research Lab. / AHPCRC. Co-P.I., Institutionalizing MTPE Data for Land and Environment Management, $1,334,552, National Aeronautics and Space Agency, 9/1998 - 8/2001.
• P.I., Archival of Sensor Data from Minneapolis Traffic Mangement Center, $100,000, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, 8/97-12/98.

TEACHING AND ADVISING

I was selected for the Excellence in Teaching Program sponsored by the Bush Foundation in 1992-93 academic year and have participated in it since then. During last six years at the University of Minnesota, I have supervised five Ph.D. thesis for Drs. A. Yang, B. Hamidzadeh, D. Liu, M. Coyle and S. Ravada. I have also advised a dozen M.S. students, namely, W. Wong, C. Bates, M. Shargal, J. Kojak, H. Li, Y. Zhou, K. Mallery, C. F. Lee, A. Kohli, N. Jain, A. El Haddi and V. Kelkar. In addition, I have mentored seven students in UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program), namely, M. Coyle, M. Balakrishnan, Yadollah, H. Wu, A. Fetterer, M. Kalantar, and J. Mitchell.

SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY

I organized the GIS Infra-structure panel at the Fall 1997 Digital Technology Summit sponsored by the Office of the Governer of MInnesota and the Office of the President of the University of Minnesota. I have been an active member of several research centers on the campus, including the Center for Transportation Studies, the Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute, and the Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC). I have also interacted with the Center for Learning, Perception and Cognition. A summary of service to the profession appears in the narrative of academic history.

During Summer 1995 - Summer 1997, I served as the Director, Undergraduate Studies, for the Department of Computer Science. I have led the effort to establish a formal Coop program in the department, and initiated a student competition based on the current trends in the discipline, namely World-wide-web. I was an active member of the I.T. committee responsible for designing the curriculum for the Bachelor of Information Networking program. In past, I have served on various committees in the Department of Computer Science.