Dr. David Maier is Maseeh Professor of Emerging Technologies in the department of Computer Science at Portland State University. Prior to his current position, he was on the faculty at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and Oregon Graduate Institute. He has spent extended visits with INRIA, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Microsoft Research, and the National University of Singapore.
Dr. Maier is the author of books on relational databases, logic programming, and object-oriented databases, as well as papers on database theory, object-oriented technology, scientific databases, and dataspace management. He is a recognized expert on the challenges of large-scale data in the sciences. He received an NSF Young Investigator Award in 1984 and was awarded the 1997 ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data’s Innovations Award for his contributions in objects and databases. He is also an ACM Fellow and IEEE Senior Member. He holds a dual B.A. in mathematics and in computer science from the University of Oregon (Honors College, 1974) and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University (1978).
Research Interests and Expertise
- Database systems
- Scientific data management
- Query optimization
- Streaming data
- Urban informatics
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