Mario Nascimento

Area of Study / Keywords

Spatiotemporal Data Management

About

I have been in academia since 1996 and am currently an Professor Emeritus. That is, while I do not hold a (paid) position, I continue to collaborate with (and visit) colleagues. I am also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria's Department of Computer Sciences. I have also served as (from most to least recent):

• Director of Pacific Northwest Research at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences
• Professor in the University of Alberta's Department of Computing Science (including six years as its Department Chair)
• Researcher with the Brazilian Agency for Agricultural Research (EMBRAPA)
• Part-time faculty member at the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (UNICAMP)

For most of my academic life, my main research interests have been related to spatiotemporal data management. DBLP kindly maintains (most of) my publications organized by year here, and citations to my work, according to Google Scholar, can be found here (over 5,200 citations as of Dec./2025, yielding an h-index of 35). 

Over the years, e.g., during sabbatical leaves, I have also been a visiting professor at LMU’s Institute for Informatics in Germany, at the Department of Computer Science at the Federal University of Ceara in Brazil.National University of Singapore’s School of Computing, and at the Aalborg University’s Department of Computer Science in Denmark.

Research

Spatio-Temporal Data Management in general and in particular, routing and spatial crowdsourcing applications

• Publications (compilation thanks to DBLP)