Shashi Shekhar
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Office: 4-192 Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Building
Phone: 612-624-8307
E-mail: shekhar@cs.umn.edu
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Shashi Shekhar’s research is centered on database management and data mining, focusing on the unique needs of the application domains of geographic information systems and spatial databases, including transportation, ecology, and climatology. His transportation research includes development of evacuation routes for homeland security, assessment of roadmap accuracy, high-performance methods for querying and visualization of traffic data, computationally efficient storage methods for roadmaps, and algorithms for shortest-path queries.
Shekhar received a B. Tech degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur), an M.S. degree in Business Administration and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He was elected an IEEE Fellow for pioneering contributions to spatial database storage methods, data mining, and geographic information systems. He has co-authored a textbook on spatial databases and has published over 100 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, books, 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 the University Consortium on GIS (2003–2004). He has served as technical advisor to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), and other organizations.