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Cover of the FIU Fall 2016 Magazine: Shonda and Shalisha Witherspoon and Dr. Rishe Cover of the 2016 NSF Breakthroughs Compendium: CAKE Center Cover of the 2014 NSF Breakthroughs Compendium |
Naphtali David Rishe, Ph.D.
The inaugural Outstanding University Professor, Florida International University
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
Founding Director, NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement at FIU, FAU, and Greenwich U
Director, FIU High Performance Database Research Center
Director, Geospatial Laboratory
| Author: | 4 books on database design, geography, and interfaces. |
| Author: | 430 papers in journals and proceedings (citations: 6328, h-index: 38, i10-index: 122). |
| Editor: | 9 books on database management, high performance computing, fuzzy logic, and health informatics. |
| Inventor: | 26 U.S. patents on database querying, semantic database performance, Internet data extraction, health informatics, and transportation. Dr. Rishe is the most prolific inventor at FIU. Since 2017 Rishe has been awarded 21 patents. Rishe is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (Fellow's Medal awarded in November 2021). |
| Innovator: | featured on the covers of both latest (2014 and 2016) National Science Foundation (NSF) Compendia of Technology Breakthroughs of Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers -- books published by NSF every two years until 2016 to advise U.S. Congress and Public on the state of science and technology. |
| Grantee: | awarded as the Principal Investigator $50 million in research grants by Government and Industry, including NASA, NSF, IBM, DoI, USGS, and DOT; Rishe's latest $2.6M NSF grant was awarded in 2020. Additionally, Rishe is a co-Principal Investigator on major collaborative grants, such as the $3.3M NSF grant for a Comprehensive Study of Alzheimer's Disease awarded in 2019 and a $300K DHS grant awarded in 12/2021. |
| Outstanding Professor: | the first FIU professor awarded the title of Outstanding University Professor. Rishe received the 2021 IBM Global University Program Academic Award. |
| Mentor: | recognized on the cover of the Fall 2016 FIU magazine for graduating top students, as well as the herald of the 2020 FIU Next Horizon infomercial. |
| Architect: | the TerraFly project, extensively covered by worldwide press, including the New York Times, USA Today, NPR, Science and Nature journals, and FOX TV News. Of the 53,000 NSF-funded projects in 2009, it chose 120, including Rishe's TerraFly, for the NSF annual report to Congress. |
High Performance Database Research Center, Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St, CASE-243, Miami, FL 33199; (305) 348-1706; http://cake.fiu.edu/Rishe
