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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: 6500, h-index: 39, i10 index: 124). |
| Editor: | 9 books on database management, high performance computing, fuzzy logic, and health informatics. |
| Inventor: | 28 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 23 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 $60 million in research grants by Government and Industry, including NASA, NSF, IBM, DoI, USGS, and DOT; Rishe's current grants as the P.I. include a $2.6M NSF grant for a Geospatial System for Multimodal Environmental Observations (2020-2025) and the $700K subproject P.I.-ship of a $1.4M Biscayne Bay Prediction System (2023-2024). Rishe is also currently a co-Principal Investigator on major collaborative grants, such as the $3.3M NSF grant for a Comprehensive Study of Alzheimer's Disease (2019-2024), a $300K DHS grant for Activity Recognition (2023-2024), and a $150K DHS grant for AI-driven Threat Detection (2024). |
| 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. |
| Leader: | Director of the FIU Database Research Center, Founding Director of FIU-FAU NSF Industry-University Center, Chair of the Forum of Outstanding Professors, serves on editorial boards and NSF panels. |
| Humanitarian: | pro-bono director of the Brain Center and other foundations and Florida "guru" on Storm, Beach Safety, and Housing. |
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
