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
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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.
Silvia
Nittel