Yelena Yesha Professor - Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 phone: (410) 455-3542 email: yeyesha@umbc.edu

Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science, The Ohio State University, 1989
M.Sc., Computer Science, The Ohio State University, 1986
B.Sc., Applied Mathematics, York University, Toronto, Canada, 1984
B.Sc., Computer Science,York University, Toronto, Canada, 1984

Employment History:
1997-present: Exceptional Research Professor (tenured), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
1995-1997: Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
1994-1995: Associate Professor (tenured), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Computer Science.
1994-1999: Director, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (CESDIS), as a contract to the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
1994: Director, Center for Applied Information Technology (CAIT), National Institute of Standards and Technology.
1993-1994: Senior Computer Scientist and Project Leader, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
1989-1994: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Computer Science.
1995-present: Professor, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, College Park (UMIACS).
1993-1994: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, College Park (UMIACS).
1993: Consultant, Center for Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (CESDIS), NASA/Goddard.
1992-1993: Senior Computer Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
1984-1989: Graduate Teaching Associate, The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science.

Research Areas:
Dr. Yesha's research areas include digital libraries, electronic commerce, distributed databases, distributed systems, information systems, and performance modeling.

Funding: NASA, IBM, NSA, NIST

Books:
1. Information and Knowledge Management: Expanding the Definition of ``Database'' (with Timothy Finin and Charles Nicholas), (Editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 752, Springer Verlag, 1993.

2. Digital Libraries: Current Issues (with Nabil Adam and Bharat Bhargava), (Editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, March, 1995, Springer Verlag.

3. Electronic Commerce (with Nabil Adam), (Editors), Lecture Notesin Computer Science, May, 1996, Springer Verlag.

4. Digital Libraries Research and Technology Advances, (with Nabil Adam and Bharat Bhargava), (Editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, October, 1996.

5. N. R. Adam, O. Dogramaci, A. Gangopadhyay and Y. Yesha, (Electronic Commerce: Technical, Business, and Legal Issues), Prentice-Hall, August 1998.

Selected Publications:
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Honors and Awards:
1993 ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management award for outstanding leadership in the area of information and knowledge management.

1995 ACM Award for outstanding service to Computer Science Community.

1996 IBM Center of Advance Studies Partnership Award.

1999 IBM Center of Advance Studies Partnership Award.

Selected Professional Activities:
Senior Member: IEEE (elected)

Member: New York Academy of Sciences

Member: ACM

Member: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Listed: "Who's Who in the Field of Science''

Listed: ''Marquis Who's Who of American Women''

Member: President Clinton's Electronic Commerce Acquisition Team, 1994

Member: Task Force on National Information Infrastructure Services, 1994

Member: Advisory Board for National Cancer Institute,1998-present

Member: Hong Kong Research Council, 1996-present

Member, Information Technology Board for the Governor of Maryland,1999-present