Yelena Yesha
Professor 

Primary Role:Principal Faculty

Graduation date: May 1989
Company:University of Maryland Baltimore County
Department: Computer Science
Street: 1000 Hilltop Circle
City: Baltimore
State: MD
ZIP: 21250
Country: USA
Fax: (410) 455-3969
URL: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~yeyesha/
E-mail:
Biography:
Yelena Yesha received the B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from York University, Toronto, Canada in 1984, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in Computer and Information Science from The Ohio State University in 1986 and 1989, respectively. Since 1989 she has been with the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she is presently a Verizon Professor. In addition, from December, 1994 through August, 1999 Dr. Yesha served as the Director of the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences at NASA. Her research interests are in the areas of distributed databases, distributed systems, mobile computing, digital libraries, electronic commerce, and trusted information systems. She published 8 books and over 100 refereed articles in these areas. Dr. Yesha was a program chair and general co-chair of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management and a member of the program committees of many prestigious conferences. She is a member of the editorial board of the Very Large Databases Journal, and the IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Digital Libraries. During 1994, Dr. Yesha was the Director of the Center for Applied Information Technology at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr. Yesha is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of the ACM.

Yelena Yesha has 60 authored publications:
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Yelena Yesha is associated with 13 projects:  Hide the list...

Active Projects

 IT Services Metrics, Affiliated Faculty.
 Methodology for IT Services on the Cloud, Principal Faculty.

Past Projects

 Allia: Alliance-based Service Discovery, Faculty.
 Anamika: Distributed Service Discovery and Composition for Pervasive Environments, Affiliated Faculty.
 CoCoNet: Content and Context Aware Networking, Professor.
 Context-Aware Surgical Training, Faculty.
 eNcentive, Faculty.
 MoGATU: Data Management in Pervasive Computing Environments, Faculty.
 Numi: Using Collaborative Agents to Enrich Service Environments, Faculty.
 Ontology Editor for Eclipse, Faculty.
 Policy Management for Enterprise Applications, Faculty.
 Semantic Discovery: Discovering Complex Relationships in Semantic Web, Faculty.
 Trauma Pod, Faculty.

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