Shashi Shekhar received the B. Tech degree in Computer Science
from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1985,
the M.S. degree in Business Administration and the Ph.D. degree
in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley,
CA, USA, in 1989.
He is a McKnight Distinguished University Professor
the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
His research interests include spatial databases, spatial data mining,
geographic and information systems (GIS), and intelligent transportation systems.
He is a co-author of a textbook on Spatial Databases (Prentice Hall, 2003,
ISBN 0-13-017480-7),
co-edited an Encyclopedia of GIS (Springer, 2008, isbn 978-0-387-30858-6)
and
has published over 200 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, books, and
conferences, and workshops.
He is a co-Editor-in-Chief of Geo-Informatica: An International Journal
on Advnace in Computer Sc. for GIS and has served on the editorial boards
of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering as well as the
IEEE-CS Computer Science & Engineering Practice Board.
He also served as a program co-chair of the
ACM Intl. Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 1996.
He is serving on the steering committee of the
ACM Symposium on Geographic Information Systems
and has served
as a member of the mapping science committee of the National Research Council
National Academy of Sciences (2004-9), as well as
the Board of Directors of University Consortium on GIS (2003-2004).
Dr. Shekhar received the IEEE Technical Achievement Award (2006),
and is a Fellow of the IEEE Computer Society,
a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement to Science,
as well as a member of the ACM.
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