Shashi Shekhar, a McKnight Distinguished University Professor and a Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota, is a leading scholar in the area of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Computing. He co-edited an Encyclopedia of GIS and co-authored a textbook on Spatial Databases. He received the IEEE-CS Technical Achievement Award and the UCGIS Education Award as well as was elected Fellows of the IEEE and the AAAS. Shashi is a co-Editor-in-Chief of Geo-Informatica journal and is serving on the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board. Previously, he served as the President of the University Consortium for GIS and on National Academies' committees (Mapping Sciences, GEOINT Workforce) and CRA's Computing Community Consortium Council.
Alternate Job Roles
McKnight Distinguished University Professor
Distinguished University Teaching Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
University of California-Berkeley
Master of Business Administration
University of California-Berkley