Dr. Max J. Egenhofer is professor in Spatial Information Science and Engineering, cooperating professor in Computer Science, and the fomer Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) at the University of Maine (1993-2006). He held Visiting Professor appointments at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany (2004) and the Università de L'Aquila, Italy (1993). He received an M.S. in Surveying Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany in 1985, and his Ph.D. from the University of Maine in Surveying Engineering in 1989. Dr. Egenhofer has lectured at FernUniversität Hagen, Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Louisiana State University, Purdue University, The Ohio State University, Simon Fraser University, Southwest Texas State University, Universidad de Concepción, the University College Dublin, the University of Bremen, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Connecticut, the University of Michigan, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of Tokyo, the University of Washington, the Technical University Munich, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, the Air Force Research Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, the Canadian Hydrographic Service, Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Telecomunicações, the Central Intelligence Agency, GE's Corporate Research and Development Center, HP Labs, IBM Scientific Center in Rio de Janeiro, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Intergraph Corporation, Lockheed Martin, and Oracle Corporation. He held the Libra Professorship of the College of Engineering at the University of Maine (1998-2002), was recognized in May 2002 by a Joint Order from the State of Maine's Senate and House of Representatives, and is the recipient of the 2002 University of Maine Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award and the 2003 UCGIS Research Award.
Dr. Egenhofer's research interests include spatial knowledge representation and spatial reasoning; user interfaces for geographic information systems; the design of spatial database systems, and mobile spatial information appliances. His funded research includes grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (and its predecessor, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency), the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Advanced Research Project Agency, the Air Force Research Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corporation, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., GE Corporate R&D Center, Intergraph Corporation, Lockheed-Martin Management and Data Systems, Space Imaging Inc., Bangor Hydro-Electric Co., and the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance.
Dr. Egenhofer is chair of the Steering Committee of the International Symposia on Spatial and Temporal Databases, a member of the Steering Committees of the COSIT and W2GIS Conference Series, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Strategic Orientation Committee of the Centre for Research in Geomatics (Université Laval) and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Instituto de Engenharia de Estruturas, Território e Construção (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa). He chaired the panel on Computational Methods for Representing Geographic Concepts under Varenius, NCGIA's project to advance geographic information science; was a co-leader of the NCGIA research initiatives on Interoperating Geographic Information Systems (1997), Formal Models of Common-Sense Geographic Worlds (1996), and Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in GIS (1993), and chaired the Research Projects Committee of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (1999-2003). He has authored or co-authored over 160 articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings relating to GIS and computer science on various aspects of GIS design; is co-editor of the books Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases (Springer 2005), Geographic Information Science 2004 (Springer, 2004), Geographic Information Science 2002 (Springer, 2002), Interoperating Geographic Information Systems (Kluwer, 1999), Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Space (Oxford, 1998), Cognitive Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction for Geographic Information Systems (Kluwer, 1995), and Advances in Spatial Databases (Springer-Verlag, 1995); and has delivered 43 keynote addresses and invited talks at national and international meetings.
Dr. Egenhofer has organized over 20 international conferences and workshops and served on the program committees of over 110 conferences and workshops. He was Program Co-Chair of the first three International Conferences on GIScience (GIScience 2004 at Adelphi, MD, GIScience 2002 at Boulder, CO, and GIScience 2000 at Savannah, GA), GeoS 2005 (Mexico City, Mexico), SSTD 2005 (Angra dos Reis, Brazil), and Interop 97 (Santa Barbara, CA, 1997), and General Chair of the Fourth International Symposium on Large Spatial Databases (Portland, ME, 1995), Program Chair of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (Gaithersburg, MD, 1994), and Co-Organizer of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Constraint Databases, Geometric Elimination and Geographic Information Systems. He serves on the editorial boards of Transactions in GIS, Spatial Cognition and Computation, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Diagrams, Earth Science Informatics, and The International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, was Editor-in-chief of GeoInformatica, and completed terms on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science and Cartography and Geographic Information Systems. Dr. Egenhofer is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).
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