NYU WIRELESS Associate Director Dennis Shasha has been named a 2014 ACM Fellow for his technical and literary contributions to the field of data management.  ACM (The Association for Computing Machinery) is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society and delivers resources that advance computing as a science and profession.

Prof. Shasha describes his research as “puzzles on large data.” This has included work on machine learning, fast data structures for data warehouses, distributed fault tolerant data structures, and applications like the design of the NYU WIRELESS propagation database. The literary part of the award citation refers to the books he has written including books on Database Tuning, Fast Algorithms for Time Series, and popular trade books on the interactions between computing and biology.

Along with Prof. Rappaport, Prof. Shasha has designed the NYU WIRELESS propagation database available to all industrial affiliates and is working with NYU WIRELESS School of Medicine professors Daniel Sodickson and Ricardo Otazo  to make Magnetic Resonance Image reconstruction hundreds of times faster than today.