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Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Spatial Database Research Group. Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Directed by Professor Shashi Shekhar Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Minnesota shekhar@cs.umn.edu 612-624-8307 http://www.cs.umn.edu/~shekhar. Brief Biography.

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering

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  1. Spatial Database Research Group Department of Computer Science and Engineering Directed by Professor Shashi Shekhar Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Minnesota shekhar@cs.umn.edu 612-624-8307 http://www.cs.umn.edu/~shekhar

  2. Brief Biography Professor Shashi Shekhar (joined in 1989) Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in Computer Science M.S. Univ. of California, Berkeley in in Business Administration, Research Interests Data and knowledge engineering, spatial database management, spatial data mining, and geographic information systems. Selected Awards & Honors • Elected an IEEE Fellow, for contributions to spatial database storage methods, data mining, and geographic information systems, 2003. • Elected to the Board of Directors, University Consortium on Geographic Info. Systems, 2003-04. • Co-Editor-in-Chief, Geo-Informatica: An Intl. Jr., 2002- present • Co-Chair, Army Research Lab. Workshop on Battlefield Visualization, 2000. • Selected as United Nations international advisor for UNDP projects 1997-98. • Excellence in Teaching Award, Bush Foundation 1992 - 93.

  3. Representative Projects Sponsors: NSF, NASA, Army Research Lab., Mn/DOT Current Projects • Critical infra-structure security for Homeland Defense: • Capacity constrained routing for evacuation planning • Contra-flow network configuration for evacuation • Spatial Data Mining • Map cubes: An approach to visualize spatial data warehouses • Parallel algorithms to learn spatial auto-regression models • Mining Tele-connections in spatial time-series datasets Recent Projects • Location based services: Mobile Devices for Community and Commerce • High Performance Geographic Information Systems • Databases for managing spatial networks • Roadmap accuracy evaluation

  4. Publications, Technology Transfer Representative Publications: • S. Shekhar and S. Chawla. A Tour of Spatial Databases. Prentice Hall. 2003. (ISBN 013-017480-7). Significance: Among first two textbooks on the topic, and widely considered to be the most definitive treatment of spatial databases. • S. Shekhar, P. Schrater, R. Vatsavai, W Wu. Spatial Contextual Classification and Prediction Models for Mining Geospatial Data. IEEE Trans. On Multimedia. 4(2), June 2002. • S. Shekhar, S. Ravada, A. Fetterer, X. Liu. And C.T. Lu. Spatial Databases: Accomplishments and Research Needs. IEEE Trans. On Knowledge and Data Eng. 11(1). Jan-Feb. 1999. Technology Transfer • Invited talks on Spatial Data Mining in SAS User Conference (2003), Army Research Lab. (2003), University Consortium on GIS (2001), etc. • Invited talks on Spatial Databases in MN GIS/LIS Conference (2003). • Chief Technology Office, G2planet, 2001-3. • Chief Scientist, Cognicity, 1999-2001. • Technical Adviser to ESRI (1995), Mn/DOT (1993-5), UNDP (1997-8)

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