Assistant Professor Mats Heimdahl (left) was promoted to Associate Professor, and Associate Professors Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos (right), Shashi Shekhar (center), and Anand Tripathi (not pictured) were promoted to Professor.
Mats. Heimdahl earned an M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering in 1988 from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden and a Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science in 1994 from the University of California at Irvine. His research interests are in software engineering, software requirements, formal specification languages, and automated analysis of software specifications. In particular, he is interested in software development for safety critical control systems. Professor Heimdahl is the recipient of an NSF Career award and is a McKnight Land-Grant Professor.
Nikolaos P. Papanikolopoulos received the Diploma degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Nation-al Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1987, the M.S.E.E. in electrical engineering in 1988, and the Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering in 1992, both from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. His research interests include robotics, computer vision, sensors for transportation applications, and control. He was a McKnight Land-Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota for the period 1995-1997 and has received the NSF Research Initiation and Early Career Development Awards. He was also awarded the Faculty Creativity Award from the University of Minnesota.
Shashi Shekhar received the B. Tech degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 1985, the M.S. degree in Business Administration and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. He is currently an active member of the Army High Performance Computing Research Center as well as the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include databases, geographic information systems (GIS) and intelligent transportation systems. Shekhar's general area of research is data and knowledge engineering. Currently his work is focused on storage, management and analysis of scientific and geographic data, information and knowledge.