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Shashi Shekhar
Lateral bank erosion in bedrock streams
Lateral bank erosion in bedrock streams is important in setting boundary conditions for landscape evolution, yet little is known about the controls and mechanisms of this process. We conducted a series of... More »
About Me
Shashi Shekhar is a McKnight Distinguished University Professor at the University of Minnesota. He was elected an IEEE Fellow and received the IEEE Technical Achievement Award for contributions to spatial databases, spatial data mining, and geographic information systems (GIS). He served on two committees of the National Research Council National Academy of Sciences, namely, the committee on mapping sciences and the review committee for research at National Geo-spatial Intelligence Agency. He is serving as a co-Editor-in-Chief of ‘Geo-Informatica: An International Journal on Advances in Computer Sc. for GIS’; a member of the steering committee of the ACM Intl. Conference on GIS. He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of a University Consortium on GIS, the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering editorial board, the IEEE-CS Computer Science & Engineering Practice Board, as a program co-chair of the ACM Intl. Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, and as a technical advisor to United Nations Development Program, Environmental Systems Research Institute, and other organizations. His research projects have been sponsored by NSF, USDOD, NASA, USDOJ, FHWA, MN/DoT etc. He has published over 220 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, conferences, books and workshops. Major contributions include fast algorithms for evacuation route planning, storage and access method for spatial graphs (i.e. Connectivity-Clustered Access Method), the notion of co-location patterns in spatial datasets, characterization of the computational structure of spatial outlier detection, and one of the most scalable parallel formulations of the back-propagation learning algorithms for neural networks. More details are available from http://www.cs.umn.edu/~shekhar.
