Mario Nascimento

Mario Nascimento is Professor of the Practice and inaugural Director of Pacific Northwest Research at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences, based at the Vancouver campus in Canada. Previously he served as Professor (and six-year Department Chair) in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta, held research roles with the Brazilian Agency for Agricultural Research, and was adjunct faculty at the Institute of Computing of the University of Campinas. He has also been a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore, Aalborg University (Denmark), LMU (Germany), and the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil).

Research Interests:
Mario’s core expertise lies in spatiotemporal data management, a field that intersects database systems, geographic information science, and data science. His work addresses challenges in indexing, querying, and mining large-scale spatiotemporal datasets, with applications ranging from urban mobility to environmental monitoring. Over the years his research has contributed to advancing both theoretical foundations and practical systems for handling dynamic spatial data.

Editorial & Service Leadership:

• General Co-Chair, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2024
• Program Committee Co-Chair, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022–2023
• Editor-in-Chief, ACM SIGMOD Record (2005–2007)
• Information Director, ACM SIGMOD (2002–2005)
• Editorial Board Member, VLDB Journal (2011–2017)
• Current Editorial Board Member, GeoInformatica
• Chair, SSTD Endowment Board of Directors