Decoupling QoS Control from Core Routers

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University of Minnesota
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Spatial Database Research Group
Directed by
Professor Shashi Shekhar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota
[email protected]
612-624-8307
http://www.cs.umn.edu/~shekhar
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
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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.
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Representative Projects
Sponsors: NSF, NASA, Army Research Lab., Mn/DOT
Current Projects
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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
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Location based services: Mobile Devices for Community and Commerce
High Performance Geographic Information Systems
Databases for managing spatial networks
Roadmap accuracy evaluation
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Publications, Technology Transfer
Representative Publications:
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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
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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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