Vipin Kumar

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Vipin Kumar (born October 21, 1956 in Muzaffarnagar , Uttar Pradesh ) is an Indian-American computer scientist.

Kumar studied electronics and communication technology at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee with a bachelor's degree in 1977 and at the Philips International Institute in Eindhoven with a master's degree in 1979 and received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Maryland , College Park, in 1982 (A unified approach to problem solving search procedures). From 1983 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and from 1989 Associate Professor and from 1995 Professor at the University of Minnesota , where he has been William Norris Professor since 2005 and Regents Professor from 2015. From 1998 to 2005 he was director of the Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPRCRC) and from 2005 to 2015 head of the IT department.

He deals with data mining and high-performance computers (massively parallel computers), in particular with applications in artificial intelligence, climate and ecosystems and in healthcare. He is the lead researcher on a $ 10 million NSF project Understanding Climate Change- A data driven approach . Kumar is known for developing the concept of isoefficiency metrics for evaluating the scalability of parallel computer algorithms and parallel algorithms and software for factorization of sparse matrices (PSPASES) and graph subdivision (METIS, ParMetis, hMetis). He wrote textbooks on parallel computing and data mining.

He is editor and one of the founders of the Journal of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining and co-founder of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining.

In 2012 he received the ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award (from the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) division of ACM) and in 2016 the Sidney Fernbach Award . He is a Fellow of IEEE , ACM , SIAM, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

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Books:

  • with Ananth Grama, Anshul Gupta, George Karypis: Introduction to Parallel Computing, Addison-Wesley 1993, 2nd edition 2003
  • with Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach: Introduction to Data Mining, Addison-Wesley 2005
  • with Gaurav Pandey, Chad L. Myers, Michael Steinbach: Computational Approaches for Protein Function Prediction, Wiley 2008
  • Editor with Christian Suttner a. a .: Parallel Processing for Artificial Intelligence, 2 volumes, North Holland 1994

Essays:

  • with G. Karypis: A fast and high quality multilevel scheme for partitioning irregular graphs, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 20, 1998, pp. 359-392
  • with G. Karypis: Multilevel k-way partitioning scheme for irregular graphs, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 48, 1998, pp. 96-129
  • with G. Karypis, EH Han: Chameleon: Hierarchical clustering using dynamic modeling, Computer, Volume 32, 1999, pp. 68-75
  • with G. Karypis, R. Aggarwal, S. Shekhar: Multilevel hypergraph partitioning: applications in VLSI domain, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Volume 7, 1999, pp. 69-79
  • with M. Steinbach, G. Karypis: A comparison of document clustering techniques, KDD workshop on text mining, 400, 2000, pp. 525-526
  • with X. Wu u. a .: Top 10 algorithms in data mining, Knowledge and Information systems, Volume 14, 2008, pp. 1–37
  • with V. Chandola, A. Banerjee: Anomaly detection: A survey, ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 41, 2009, p. 15

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of birth according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Kumar, Vipin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian-American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Muzaffarnagar