board member nominee
Shashi
Shekhar is currently a Professor of Computer Science the University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. He was elected an IEEE fellow for contributions
to spatial database storagemethods, data mining, and geographic information
systems(GIS). He is serving as a member of twocommittees of the National
Research Council National Academy of Sciences, namely, the committee on mapping
sciences and the committee to review the basic and applied research at
NationalGeo-spatial Intelligence Agency. He is also serving as a
co-Editor-in-Chief of Geo-Informatica: An International 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. He has served as a member of the Boardof
Directors of University Consortium on GIS (2003-2004), a member of the editorial
boards of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, a member of the
IEEE-CS Computer Science & Engineering Practice Board, a program co-chair of the
ACM Intl. Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (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, Army Research Laboratories, USDOT,
FHWA, MN/DoT etc. He has co-authored a textbook on Spatial Databases (Prentice
Hall, 2003, ISBN 0-13-017480-7) and has published over 150 research papers in
peer-reviewed journals, books, and conferences, and workshops. He received a
Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California (Berkeley,
CA).