Professor Peter Z. Revesz,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Lincoln, USA

Brief Biography of the Speaker: Peter Z. Revesz holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Brown University (dissertation title: Constraint Query Languages, advisor: Paris C. Kanellakis). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto before joining the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is an expert in databases, data mining and analytics, bioinformatics and computational linguistics. He is the author of Introduction to Databases: From Biological to Spatio-Temporal (Springer, 2010) and Introduction to Constraint Databases (Springer, 2002). Dr. Revesz held visiting appointments at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, INRIA, the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, the University of Athens, the University of Hasselt, the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the U.S. Department of State. He is a recipient of an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, a J. William Fulbright Scholarship, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, a Jefferson Science Fellowship, a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and a Faculty International Scholar of the Year award by Phi Beta Delta, the Honor Society for International Scholars.