University of Maine, Spatial Information Science & Engineering and NCGIA


Silvia Nittel

Associate Professor
Address: Department of Spatial Information Science & Engineering,                                   
         National Center for Geographic Information & Analysis 
         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: The new research project in collaboration with Global Relief Technologies and the Maine National Guard started!

News: The 3rd Conference on Geosensor Networks is in the works (Oxford, July 13-14 2009)!

News: Guang Jin successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! Congratulations


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 stemming 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. 



updated April 2009