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Naphtali Rishe, Professor |
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ECS 243, 305-348-2025 |
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rishen cis.fiu.edu |
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Short Biography
Dr. Rishe is the founder and director of the High Performance Database Research Center at FIU, which now employs over 100 researchers. He presently mentors 30 graduate students and 5 postdocs.
Dr. Rishe is the Author of 2 books on database design;
Editor of 4 books on database management and high performance computing;
Inventor of 3 U.S. patents on semantic database performance, Internet data extraction, and computer medicine;
Author of 150 papers in journals and proceedings on databases, software engineering, Geographic Information Systems, Internet, and life sciences;
Awardee of close to $30 million in research grants by Government and Industry. His research is currently sponsored by NASA, NSF, IBM, DoI, and other agencies.
Rishe has led major industrial projects -- both prior to his academic career, and as a consultant since.
Rishe is the first faculty member to receive the Outstanding FIU Professor Award.
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Principal Projects
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Background Education
| 1984 - |
Ph.D., Computer Science Department, Tel Aviv University |
| 1981 - |
M.S., Computer Science Department, Isreal Institute of Technology (Technion) |
| 1979 - |
B.S., Summa Cum Laude - Computer Science Department, Isreal Institute of Technology (Technion) |
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Professional Experience
| 1994 - present |
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Director, High Proformance Database Research Center at the School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199 |
| 1992 - present |
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Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199 |
| 1992 - 1994 |
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Director, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199 |
| 1987 - 1992 |
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Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199 |
| 1984 - 1987 |
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 1981 - 1984 |
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Consultant, Computer Science curricula and Database teaching methodology, Center of Educational Technology, Isreal |
| 1981 - 1984 |
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Instructor (doctoral fellow), Computer Science Department, Tel Aviv University |
| 1987 |
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Research & Development, Industrial |
| 1986 |
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Consultant, Databases, Hewlett Packard |
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