Naphtali D RisheDr. Naphtali Rishe is a Professor of Computer Science and the inaugural Outstanding University Professor at Florida International University in Miami. Rishe is the Director of the National Science Foundation's Industry-University Cooperative ResearchCenter for Advanced Knowledge Enablement, a multi-university consortium. Rishe has been awarded $55 million in grants. Rishe has published six books and 430 papers and has been awarded 24 U.S. patents. Rishe's geographic data management system, TerraFly, has been featured in FOX TV News, New York Times, USA Today, NPR, and the Science and Nature journals. The National Science Foundation's annual report to Congress and its compendia of technology breakthroughs have recognized Rishe's work on semantic and geographic database management and health informatics. Rishe is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Rishe received the 2021 IBM Global University Program Academic Award. Read More Read Less