Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley (1989)
M.S. in Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley (1989)
M.S. in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley (1987)
B. Tech. in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (1985)

Professional Background

Shashi Shekhar joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering as an assistant professor in 1989 and was later promoted to a professor. He was named a McKnight Distinguished University Professor in 2005 and a Distinguished University Teaching Professor in 2015. Shekhar was also named a fellow of the IEEE Computer Society and the American Association for Advancement of Science. Prior to his time at the University, he was a software engineer at Taj Services Ltd. in 1984 and a post-graduate researcher at the University of California, Berkeley from 1985-99. He is currently serving as an Associate Director of the College of Science and Engineering Data Science Initiative and an ADC/DSI chair (9/2022 - 8/2025). He is also serving as the Director of a National AI Research Institute, namely, AI-LEAF (AI Institute for Land, Economy, Agriculture & Forestry) starting June 2023.

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Teaching Subjects

• Spatial Data Science
• Databases
• Data Structures

Honors and Awards

2022-25: ADC/DSI Chair, College of Science and Engineering
2021: Robert C. Johns Research Partnership Award, Center for Transportation Studies (CTS), University of Minnesota
2020: Best paper award, ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Deep Learning for Spatiotemporal Data, Applications, and Systems (DeepSpatial)
2019: Best paper award, International Symposium on Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Databases
2019: Second best paper award, Challenges and Vision Paper Track, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in GIS
2015: Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education
2015: University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Education Award
2011: Institute on the Environment Resident Fellow
2008: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows
2006: IEEE Technical Achievement Award
2005: McKnight Professorships
2003: IEEE Fellow

Selected Grants
AI-LEAF (AI Institute for Land, Economy, Agriculture & Forestry), AFRI Competitive Grant No. 2023-67021-39829, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

HDR Institute: HARP- Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Regions
Shekhar, S. & Mokbel, M. F.; National Science Foundation (via University of Maryland, Baltimore County); 1/1/22 - 12/31/27

III: Medium: Investigating Spatial-Temporal Informatics for Transportation Science
Shekhar, S.; National Science Foundation; 8/1/19 - 7/31/23

S&CC-IRG Track 1: Connecting the Smart-City Paradigm with a Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Systems Framework to Advance Equity in Communities
Shekhar, S., Brown, J. C., Cao, J., Dalbotten, D. M., Douma, F. P., Johns, R. C. & Ramaswami, A.; National Science Foundation; 9/1/17 - 8/31/22