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Biographical Sketch for Shashi Shekhar Shashi Shekhar is currently a Professor of Computer Science the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. He was recently elected an IEEE fellow for contributions to spatial database storage methods, data mining, and geographic information systems. He has co-authored a textbook on Spatial Databases (Prentice Hall, 2003, ISBN 0-13-017480-7) and has published over 100 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 Advances in Computer Sc. for GIS and a member of the Board of Directors of University Consortium of UCGIS (20032004). He 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. Shekhar's research accomplishments include databases for managing spatial graphs (e.g. roadmaps), parallelization of GIS, routing algorithms for Advanced Traveler Information Systems, and archival of traffic measurements. His group has developed, CCAM, one of the most efficient clustering and indexing methods for large road maps as well as algorithms for path evaluation as well as for computing shortest paths. More details are available on http://www.cs.umn.edu/~shekhar. Affiliation: Mailing Address: Email: University of Minnesota, Dept. of Computer Science and Eng. Telephone: 612-624-8307 200 Union ST SE, #4-192, Minneapolis, MN 55414 [email protected] URL: http://www.cs.umn.edu/~shekhar :Fax: 612-625-0572 Professional Preparation 1990 Ph.D., Computer Science University of California, Berkley 1989 M.S., Business Administration University of California, Berkeley 1987 M.S., Computer Science University of California, Berkley 1985 B.S., Computer Science Indian Inst. of Tech., Kanpur, India Appointments 2001Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 1995-2000 Assoc. Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 1989-1995 Asst. Professor, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Research Interests: Data and knowledge engineering, spatial database management, spatial data mining, and geographic information systems. Five Related Publications 1. A Tour of Spatial Databases (w/ S. Chawla), Prentice Hall, 2003, ISBN 013-017480-7. 2. Trend in Spatial Data Mining (with P. Zhang, Y. Huang, and R. Vatsavai), to appear in a book titled “Data Mining: Next Generation Challenges and Future Directions”, (Editors Hillol Kargupta and Anupam Joshi), AAAI/MIT Press, 2004. 3. Spatial Contextual Classification and Prediction Models for Mining Geospatial Data (with P. Schrater, W. R. Vatsavai, and W. Wu), in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (special issue on Multimedia Databases, 2(4)), June 2002. 4. Discovering Spatial Co-location Patterns from Spatial Datasets: A General Approach, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Eng. (A summary appeared in the Seventh Int'l Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, 2001). 5. A Unified Approach to Spatial Outliers Detection (with C. Lu and P. Zhang), GeoInformatica: An Intl Jr. on Adv. of Computer Sc. for Geographic Info. Systems, 7(2), 2003 (A summary appeared in the 7th ACM SIGKDD Int’l Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2001). Five Other Publications 1. Spatial Databases: Accomplishments and Research Needs, (w/ S. Chawla et al.), IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Eng., 11(1), January 1999. 2. Processing Object-Orientation Based Direction Queries in Spatial Databases (with X. Liu and S. Chawla), in IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Eng., 15(2), 2003. 3. Optimizing Join Index Based Spatial-Join Processing: A Graph Partitioning Approach (with C. T. Lu, S. Ravada, and S. Chawla), in IEEE Trans. on Know. and Data Eng., 14(6), 2002. 4. Declustering and Load Balancing Methods for Parallelizing Geographic Information System (with S. Ravada, G. Turner, D. Chubb, and V. Kumar), IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Eng., 10(4), 1998. 5. CCAM: A Connectivity-Clustered Access Method for Networks and Network Computations, (with D. Liu), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Eng., January 1997, 9(1) (A summary appeared in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Data Engineering 1995). Synergistic Activities Invited speaker on Spatial Data Mining at SAS data mining conference (2003), UCGIS Workshop of visualization and mining of spatial data (2003), NSF CSISS workshop on spatial analysis (2002), NSF workshop on spatio-temporal databases for geobiophysical domains (2002), UCGIS Summer Assembly 2001, NSF Varenins workshop on Discovering Geog. Knowledge in Data Rich Environments (1999). IEEE Fellow, Member of ACM, Member, the Board of Directors of University Consortium of Geographic Information Systems (UCGIS) for 2003-2004; Co-Editor in Chief, GeoInformatica: An Intl. Jr. on App. of Computer Science to GIS (2002 – onwards), Editor of IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Eng. (19962000), IEEE-CS Science and Eng. Practices Publication Board (1995-97), Program Chair, ACM Intl. Conf. on Geographic Info. Systems (1996). Active participation in broadening the participation of groups underrepresented in science via supervising over two dozen undergraduate (UG) students from historically black colleges in Army High Performance Computing Research Center annual summer workshops (1997-present), NSF Research Experience for UGs (1999) and UG Research Opportunity Program (UROP). Collaborators and Other Affiliations In past 48 months I have collaborated with Prof. V. Kumar, Prof. J. Srivastava, Prof. P. Schrater, Prof. T. Burke, Prof. M. Bauer, Prof. M. Donath, Prof. A. Tripathi, Prof. G. Karypis, Prof. J. Riedl, Prof. J. Konstan, and Prof. L. Terveen (all Univ. of Minnesota); My thesis advisors were Prof. C. V. Ramamoorthy and Prof. L. A. Zadeh (all University of California, Berkeley). I supervised the Ph.D. thesis of Prof. T. A. Yang (U. Connecticut), Prof. B. Hamidzadeh (Boeing Research), Prof. Duen Ren Liu (Taiwan), Dr. Mark Coyle (Siebel), Dr. Siva Ravada (Manager, Oracle Spatial Data Group), Dr. Ms. Xuan Liu (IBM TJ Watson Research Center), Dr. C. T. Lu (Northern Virginia Center, Virginia Tech), Dr. Ms. Weili Wu (UT Dallas) and Dr. Ms. Huang Yan (U North Texas). I supervised post-doctoral work of Dr. S. Chawla (University of Sydney). The following individuals visited my research laboratory for 3-weeks to a year: Prof. B. Y. Hwang (Korea),Prof. H. Diwakar (Pune U., India), Dr. F. Polat (Bilkent U., Turkey), Prof. I. Singh (India).