Amit Sheth: Educator, Researcher, Entrepreneur

Amit P. Sheth
Founding Director, AI Institute@UofSC
NCR Chair and Professor, Computer Science & Engineering

Research Areas

Education

Academic Positions

Students

Entrepreneurship & Industry Employment

Research Funding & Grants

Recognition & Awards

Professional or Scholarly Activities

Editorship & Key Memberships

Industry Courses & Workshops

Event Organizer

Program Committee Member

Other Services

Curriculum Development

Instruction & Academic Services

Blog

Other Services (Sessions, Reviews, Funding Panels)

(Services to national and international funding agencies as proposal reviewer)

Ongoing	USA, National Science Foundation, since 1987 (reviewed numerous research proposals for funding). Served on many panels and provided strategic input (e.g., CISE Area of Study on Web Information Systems in 2005)
2008	Belgium (Flanders), SBO (Strategic Basic Research) Programme
2006	Austria, Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF)
2006	German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
2005	Switzerland, Swiss National Foundation
2005	Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR)
Ongoing	Canada, National Science and Engineering Research Council, NSF-equivalent national research sponsorship organization (reviewer for several years)
1996-1998, 2002, 2003	Norway, Research Council of Norway
2003	Australian Research Council, Expert Assessor of International Standing
2001	Ireland, Science Foundation
1999	Austria, Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF)
2003, 2005	The Netherlands, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NOW)
1996	Israel, Israel Science Foundation
1996	Hong Kong , National Research Grants Council

Chaired technical sessions

DWP2005, WWW2004 (5/2004), WWW2003 (5/2003), 2nd International Workshop on the Semantic Web (5/2001), 8th IFIP 2.6 WC on Database Semantics (DS–8) (01/1999), IFIPWG 11.5 Conference on Integrity and Control in Information Systems (12/1997), 12th ICDE (02/1996), 11th ICDE (04/1995), 4th IEEE RIDE (03/1995), 10th ICDE (05/1995), 9th ICDE (04/1993), 7th ICDE (04/1991), 6th ICDE (02/1990), etc.

Services to Journals as Referee, Session Chairs, etc.

IEEE TKDE, VLDB Journal, ACM TODS, ACM TOIT, ACM TOIS, ACM Computing Surveys, Information Systems, Intelligent Information Systems, Distributed Systems Engineering, IEEE Transaction on Computers, Computer, IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, BMC Bioinformatics, Journal of Selected Areas in Communication, Information Sciences, Journal of Web Semantics, Software-Practice and Experiences, Information and Software Technology, Information Technology & Management, and practically all journals in the area of work. Chaired sessions at numerous conferences.

Society Memberships

2006-Present	Fellow	IEEE and IEEE Computer Society including Technical Committee on Database Engineering
2003-2005	Senior Member	IEEE and IEEE Computer Society including Technical Committee on Database Engineering
1981-Present	Member	Association for Computing Machinery, including SIGMOD
1997-2002		SIGGROUP

Address
Professor Amit P. Sheth Artificial Intelligence Institute Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of South Carolina