Mario Nascimento

Area of Study / Keywords

Spatiotemporal Data Management

About

*** Please note that I am currently on a leave-of-absence and am unable to consider accepting any new graduate students ***

Mario A. Nascimento is a Professor at the University of Alberta's Department of Computing Science and has served as the department's Chair between 2014 and 2021 (with a one-year leave in 2019-2020). 

Before joining the University of Alberta in 1999, he was a researcher with the Brazilian Agency for Agricultural Research and also an adjunct faculty member with the Institute of Computing of the University of Campinas. Mario has also been a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore's School of Computing, Aalborg University's Department of Computer Science, LMU's Institute for Informatics and at the Federal University of Ceara in Brazil.

His main research interests are contained in the area of spatiotemporal data management and according to Google Scholar his publications have been cited 4,500+ times earning him an H-index of 31. 

Besides often serving as a program committee member for the main database conferences, and as (co-)chair of several workshops and symposia, Mario has also served as ACM SIGMOD's Information Director (2002-2005), ACM SIGMOD Record's Editor-In-Chief (2005-2007), VLDB Journal's Editorial Board member (2011-2017).  He is currently a member of  GeoInformatica's Editorial Board, SSTD Endowment's Board of Directors (serving as its Chair) and also serves as a member of AltaML's Board of Directors.  

Finally, he finds it rather amusing writing about himself in the third person ...

Research

Spatio-Temporal Data Management in general and in particular, routing and spatial crowdsourcing applications