Shashi Shekhar

Shahi Shekhar, a McKnight Distinguished University Professor at the University of Minnesota and an U.C. Berkeley alumnus, is a leading scholar of spatial computing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He is serving as the President of the University Consortium for GIS, a member of the Computing Research Association (CRA) board, and a co-Editor-in-Chief of GeoInformatica journal (Springer). Earlier, he served on many National Academies' committees (e.g., From Maps to Models: Augmenting the Nation's Geospatial Intelligence Capabilities (2016)). Recognition includes the IEEE-CS Technical Achievement Award, the UCGIS Education Award, the IEEE Fellow and the AAAS Fellow. Contributions include an Encyclopedia of GIS, a Spatial Databases textbook and scalable algorithms for evacuation route planning, spatial pattern (e.g., colocation, linear hot-spots) mining, and classifying remote sensing imagery into land-cover maps (e.g., spatial decision trees, spatial semi-supervised methods).