Shashi Shekhar

Shashi Shekhar McKnight Distinguished University Professor Distinguished University Teaching Professor Department of Computer Science College of Science and Engineering University of Minnesota shekhar at umn dot edu (612) 624-8307 :fax: (612) 625-0572 address: 4-192, Keller Hall, 200 Union St. S.E. , Minneapolis, MN 55455 more pictures ...

Overview:	Biography , Selected Highlights (22 pages pdf) , Entries at Google Scholar, DBLP. iUMN TLI . Experts@Minnesota. Arnetminer,

Selected Talks : From GPS, Google Maps and Uber to Spatial Computing , GeoAI and Spatial Big Data Science, Spatial Data Mining , Evacuation Route Planning , Survey Papers: Spatial Databases ( Wiley , TR ), Spatial Data Mining , Spatio-temporal Change Footprint Detection Book: Spatial Databases: A Tour (Prentice Hall 2003, ISBN 0-13-017480-7): flyer Encyclopedia of GIS: Brochures ( 2nd Edition , 1st Edition , ), download_statistics ( 192,918 in 2017 Spinger report , current from bookMetrix ) website , reviews ( 1, 2), Google Book ( About , Preview ), worldcat ,

Research:	Interests: Spatial Data Science, Spatial Data Science, Spatial Data Mining, Spatial Databases, Geo-AI, GIS
	Spatial Computing Research Group , Big-Picture articles and papers Proposal Related Info.

Teaching:
Fall 2025: Csci 5715: Spatial Data Science (Previously From GPS, Google Maps and Uber to Spatial Computing)
Spring 2024: Csci 8715: Spatial Data Science Research
Spring 2023: Csci 4707: Practice of Database Management Systems
Old Portfolios
Profile and Statement , Graduate Education Award , University of Minnesota, 2015.
Remarks (14 slides) , 2015 UCGIS Education Award .

University Consortium for GIS (UCGIS) , President (2017-18), A UCGIS Call to Action: Bringing the Geospatial Perspective to Data Science Degrees and Curricula . (Summer 2018). Computing Research Association (CRA) - Board of Directors (2016-2019) CRA Computing Community Consortium : Council (2013-2015) , Blue Sky Ideas , From GPS and Virtual Globe to Spatial Computing ( brochure , report , blog entry on Cyber-Earth, ). The SSTD Endowment : Board of Directors (2014-2019) , 2011 Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases . Geo Informatica Journal: website , flyer ( 2017 , 2015 , 2008 , ), ranking , reviewer guidelines SpringerBriefs in GIS : pdf

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Other:	Related Links
Spatial Computing: overview from cse.umn.edu , article, video , Communications of the ACM (Jan. 2016).
Eco-Routing: 2014 Interview , short video by M. Evans , project homepage ,
Spatio-temporal Data Mining: Stories ( 1 (SoundByte 2007) , 2 (SoundByte 2001) ), overview , survey paper ,
Evacuation Route Planning: Stories ( 1 , 2 , 3 , ), articles ( 1 , 2 , 3 , ), overview , videos ( FoxTV: youtube , avi , quicktime , umfoundation avi ),
Social Networks- Spatio-temporal Future: overview , news ( 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, ), tweets ( 1, ), whitepaper ( pdf ). -->

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