Shashi Shekhar is a McKnight Distinguished University Professor
at the University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN, USA. For contributions to spatial databases,
spatial data mining, and geographic information systems(GIS),
he received the IEEE Technical Achievement Award and was
elected a Fellow of the IEEE as well as the American Assoc. for Advancement of Science.
He co-edited an Encyclopedia of GIS (Springer, 2008, isbn 978-0-387-30858-6),
and co-authored a textbook on Spatial Databases (Prentice Hall, 2003, isbn 0-13-017480-7)
which has been translated into multiple foreign languages.
He has co-authored over 200 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, books,
and conferences, and workshops.
He is serving as a co-Editor-in-Chief of
Geo-Informatica: An Intl. Journal
on Advances in Computer Sc. for GIS (ISSN 1384-6175)
and a member of the steering committee of the ACM Intl. Conference on GIS
as well as IEEE Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data Mining.
He served on two committees of the National Research Council
National Academy of Sciences, namely, the committee on mapping sciences (2004-2009)
and the committee to review the basic and applied research at National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (2005).
He also served as
a member of the Board of Directors of University Consortium on GIS (2003-2004),
a member of the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Eng.,
a member of the IEEE-CS Computer Science \& Engineering Practice Board,
a program co-chair of the ACM Intl. Workshop on Advances in GIS (1996),
and a technical advisor to United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Environmental
Systems Research Institute (ESRI), and other organizations.
His research projects have been sponsored by the NSF, NASA, UDOD, USDOT, MN/DoT etc.
He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California
(Berkeley, CA).
More details are available from http://www.cs.umn.edu/\~shekhar.
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