University of Maine, Spatial Information Science & Engineering and NCGIA


Silvia Nittel

Associate Professor
Address: Spatial Information Science & Engineering & NCGIA                                   
School of Computing and Information Science
         University of Maine, Orono
         5711 Boardman Hall, Rm. 334
         Orono, ME 04467-5711

Phone:   (207) 581 3681 (univ) 
Fax:     (207) 581 2206

Email:   nittel at spatial.maine.edu
 

 
 
 
 
 

News: Our paper " Efficient tracking of 2D objects with spatio-temporal properties in wireless sensor networks was accepted for publication in the
Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases, Nov 2010.

News: I am teaching a new graduate course on "Data Stream Systems" Fall 2011.
News: The GSN website got revamped!

Dr. Silvia Nittel’s is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spatial Information Science & Engineering and a faculty member with the National Center of Geographic Information & Analysis at the University of Maine. She received her Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Zurich in  database management systems, and joined the UCLA Computer Science Department as postdoctoral researcher in 1995. At UCLA, she worked on high-performance integration platforms for scientific data mining application for climate change. From 1998 to 2001, she was the Co-Director  of the UCLA Data Mining Lab. In Fall 2001, she started as Assistant Professor at the University of Maine.

Her current research interests are in extending database technology to support stationary and mobile sensor networks, especially geosensor networks. In detail, her research focus is on in-network data aggregation for quantitative and qualitative spatial queries in geosensor networks, as well as real-time querying of continuous sensor data streams originating from various sized sensor devices creating sensor data of different spatio-temporal scale. She is the co-founder of the conference series "Geosensor Networks", and author of two books on Geosensor Networks.She is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Early CAREER award, and her research  has been funded with grants from NSF, NGA and NASA. 



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