Mario Nascimento

Professor of the Practice, Director of Pacific Northwest Research

Mario Nascimento
  • Spatiotemporal databases
  • PhD in Computer Science, Southern Methodist University 
  • MS in Electrical Engineering, State University of Campinas — Brazil 
  • BS in Applied Mathematics, State University of Campinas — Brazil 

Mario Nascimento is a professor of the practice and the director of Pacific Northwest Research in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Vancouver.

Nascimento researches data science, specifically spatiotemporal databases. Prior to joining Northeastern, he was a faculty member with the University of Alberta's Department of Computing Science for more than 20 years (including six as the department's chair), a researcher with the Brazilian Agency for Agricultural Research, and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Campinas. Nascimento has also been a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore, Aalborg University in Denmark, LMU’s Institute for Informatics in Germany, and the Federal University of Ceara in Brazil.