Mario A. Nascimento
obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at
Southern Methodist Univ.'s School of Engineering in 1996.
Between 1989 and 1999 he was a researcher with the Brazilian Agency for Agricultural
Research (Information
Technology Center)
and, between 1997 and 1999, he was an Adjunct faculty member with the Institute of Computing
of the State Univ. of Campinas
(Brazil). Since 1999 Mario has been with the Department of Computing Science
of the Univ. of Alberta, where
he currently is a tenured Associate Professor and Associate Chair
(Research) effective July, 2009.
In addition he has also been an IITA Invited Professor at
Chung-Ang Univ.
in
Korea and Visiting Professor
at the
National Univ. of Singapore
and
Aalborg Univ., Denmark
during his sabbatical leave (2005-2006).
He has published over fifty papers in
international conferences, journals and workshops, has served
as Program Committee member of the top ranked database conferences and as
Program Chair or Co-chair
for ACM MM 2001 MIR,
IDEAS'02
SPIRE'2003,
STDBM'04 and
SBBD'2006
and
DMSN
2009.
Mario was
ACM SIGMOD's
Information Director (2002-2005) and
also ACM
SIGMOD Record's Editor-In-Chief (2005-2007).
His main research interests lie in the areas of Data Management for
Wireless Sensor Networks and
Access Structures for
Spatio/Temporal/Image Databases.
He is
a Senior
Member of the ACM and a member of SIGMOD.
(Further information can be found at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mn.)
