
Vipin Kumar
Regents Professor, William Norris Land Grant Chair in Large-Scale Computing, Department of Computer Science & EngineeringContact
Kenneth H. Keller Hall Room 5-225C 200 Union Street SeMinneapolis, MN 55455
Kumar's research spans data mining, high-performance computing, and their applications in climate/ecosystems and health care. His research has resulted in the development of the concept of isoefficiency metric for evaluating the scalability of parallel algorithms, as well as highly efficient parallel algorithms and software for sparse matrix factorization (PSPASES) and graph partitioning (METIS, ParMetis, hMetis). Kumar's current major research focus is on bringing the power of big data and machine learning to understand the impact of human induced changes on the earth and its environment. Kumar served as the Lead PI of a 5-year, $10 Million project, "Understanding Climate Change - A Data Driven Approach", funded by the NSF's Expeditions in Computing program that is aimed at pushing the boundaries of computer science research.
Research areas
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Data Mining, Databases, and Geographical Information Systems
High Performance Computing
Theoretical Foundations
2005- Current: Endowed Chairs and Professorships
2015: Regents Professorship
2012: ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award
2006: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows
2006: ACM Fellows Program
2005: IEEE Technical Achievement Award
2000: IEEE Fellow