Vipin Kumar

Vipin Kumar
Regents Professor, William Norris Land Grant Chair in Large-Scale Computing, ADC Data Science Initiative Director Chair, Department of Computer Science & EngineeringContact
Kenneth H. Keller Hall Room 5-225C 200 Union Street SeMinneapolis, MN 55455
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park (1982)
- M.E. in Electronics Engineering, Philips International Institute (1979)
- B.E. in Electronics & Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (1977)
Biography
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
Current Research
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Visit Vipin Kumar's Experts@Minnesota profile page.
- CS&E makes big showing at IEEE BigData 2021
- Karypis and Kumar receive Test of Time award at SC21
- Kumar's climate work featured on Minnesota Public Radio
- Vipin Kumar appointed first director of Data Science Initiative
- University of Minnesota is part of $25M AI-based climate modeling center
- New machine learning methods could improve environmental predictions
- CS&E faculty ranked among top CS researchers in the world
- Kumar collaborates to study carbon credits for farmers
- CS&E professor initiates data mining conference’s first-ever ‘Earth Day’
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University of Minnesota to develop techniques for monitoring global change
Honors and Awards
- 2016: Institute on the Environment Fellow
- 2015: Regents Professorship
- 2012: ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award
- 2006: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows
- 2006: ACM Fellows Program
- 2005: William Norris Land Grant Chair in Large-Scale Computing
- 2005: IEEE Technical Achievement Award
- 2000: IEEE Fellow