Naphtali D. Rishe Professor Director, High Performance Database Research Center School of Computer Science Florida International University

Dr. Rishe has worked for many years in the fields of databases and software engineering. He has developed a novel methodology for the design of database applications. His work on that methodology and on the Semantic Binary Model of databases was published as a book by Prentice-Hall in 1988. Rishe's Semantic Modeling theory was published as a book by McGraw-Hill in 1992. Rishe is Editor of three books and Author of many research papers. Dr. Rishe has been awarded about $5M in research grants by government agencies, such as NASA ($3.8 million), NATO, BMDO, DoD, DoI, FHTIC, NAFSA, and industry. Dr. Rishe also has extensive experience in database applications and database systems in the industry. This included eight years of employment as head of software and database projects (1976-84) and later consulting to DBMS developers (e.g. Hewlett-Packard), telephone companies, and government agencies.

Since Rishe completed his Ph.D. at Tel Aviv University in 1984 he worked as an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1984-1987), and associate professor (1987-1992) and professor (1992-) at FIU. Rishe chaired the program and steering committees of the PARBASE-90 conference and is on the steering committee of the PDIS conference series.

1. N. Rishe. Database Design: The Semantic Modeling Approach. McGraw-Hill, 1992, 528 pp. ISBN 0-07-052955-8.

2. N. Rishe, ``A Universal Model for Non-procedural Database Languages,'' Fundamenta Informaticae, April 1996, pp. 31-57.

3. N. Rishe. ``A Methodology and Tool for Top-down Relational Database Design.'' Data and Knowledge Engineering, 10 (1993) 259-291.

4. N. Rishe. ``Interval-based approach to lexicographic representation and compression of numeric data.'' Data and Knowledge Engineering, 8, 4 (1992), pp. 339-351.

5. N. Rishe. ``A File Structure for Semantic Databases.'' Information Systems, 16, 4 (1991), pp. 375-385.

6. Naphtali Rishe, Wei Sun, David Barton, Yi Deng, Cyril Orji, Michael Alexopoulos, Leonardo Loureiro, Carlos Ordonez, Mario Sanchez, Artyom Shaposhnikov. ``Florida International University High Performance Database Research Center.'' SIGMOD Record, 24 (1995), 3, pp. 71-76.