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Name: Naphtali Rishe, Professor
Office Info: ECS 243, 305-348-2025
E-mail: rishencis.fiu.edu
Office Hours: N/A

Short Biography

Naphtali David Rishe
the Inaugural Outstanding University Professor
Professor of Computer Science
Director, FIU High Performance Database Research Center
Director, NASA Regional Applications Center in Miami
Director, NSF FIU-FAU Industry/University Cooperative Research
Director, FIU Health Information Technology Initiative

Dr. Rishe is the Author of 3 books on database design and geography; Editor of 5 books on database management and high performance computing; Inventor of 4 U.S. patents on database querying, semantic database performance, Internet data extraction, and computer medicine; Author of over 200 papers in journals and proceedings on databases, software engineering, Geographic Information Systems, Internet, and life sciences; Awardee of over $45 million in research grants by Government and Industry, including NASA, NSF, IBM, DoI, USGS; Architect of major industrial projects -- both prior to his academic career, and as a consultant since; Founder and Director of the High Performance Database Research Center at FIU; Mentor of 70 postdocs, PhDs and MS; the inaugural FIU Outstanding University Professor. Rishe's TerraFly project has been extensively covered by worldwide press, including the New York Times, USA Today, NPR, Science and Nature journals, and FOX TV News.



Principal Projects

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)


Professional Experience
2008 - present
  Director, NSF Industry-University Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement at FIU and FAU
1994 - present
  Director, High Proformance Database Research Center at the School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
1992 - present
  Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
1992 - 1994
  Director, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
1987 - 1992
  Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
1984 - 1987
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Barbara