Shashi Shekhar

Department of Computer Science
College of Science and Engineering
612-624-8307
shekhar@cs.umn.edu

Shashi Shekhar is a McKnight Distinguished University Professor at the University of Minnesota. For contributions to spatial databases, spatial data mining, and geographic information systems(GIS), he received the IEEE-CS Technical Achievement Award and was elected Fellows of the IEEE and the AAAS. He received a Ph.D. degree from University of California, Berkeley (USA) and an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India).

Accomplishments include scalable algorithms for evacuation route planning, mining spatio-temporal patterns (e.g., co-location, cascade), shortest path computation, etc. Shashi co-authored a textbook on Spatial Databases, and co-edited an Encyclopedia of GIS. He served on the National Academies' Mapping Sciences Committee and the board of director of the University Consortium on GIS. He is serving as a co-Editor-in-Chief of Geo-Informatica: An International Journal on Advances in Computer Sc. for GIS.

Shashi is interested in exploring computational structure of sustainability problems such as eco-routing, understanding climate change, environmental forensics, and spatio-temporal data mining.

Shashi Shekhar

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