Vipin Kumar's Home Page..

Affiliations and Address:

kumar@cs.umn.edu
http://www.cs.umn.edu/~kumar/

Assistant: Liz Freppert
freppert@cs.umn.edu
Phone (612) 625 1890, Fax (612) 625 0572

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
4-192, EE/CSci Building
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone (612) 625 0726

[short bio], [vita], [professional activities], [research projects], [books], [publications], [software packages], [talks & tutorials]

Short Biography

Vipin Kumar is currently William Norris Professor and Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota. He received the B.E. degree in electronics & communication engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (formerly, University of Roorkee), India, in 1977, the M.E. degree in electronics engineering from Philips International Institute, Eindhoven, Netherlands, in 1979, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of Maryland, College Park, in 1982. Kumar's current research interests include data mining, bioinformatics and high-performance computing. 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). He has authored over 200 research articles, and has coedited or coauthored 9 books including widely used text books ``Introduction to Parallel Computing" and ``Introduction to Data Mining'', both published by Addison Wesley. Kumar has served as chair/co-chair for many conferences/workshops in the area of data mining and parallel computing, including IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (2002), International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (2001), and SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (2001). Kumar serves as co-chair of the steering committee of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, and is a member of the steering committee of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining and the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine. Kumar is a founding co-editor-in-chief of Journal of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, editor-in-chief of IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin, and editor of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Book Series published by CRC Press/Chapman Hall. Kumar also serves or has served on the editorial boards of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge and Information Systems, IEEE Computational Intelligence Bulletin, Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics, Parallel Computing, the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Transactions of Data and Knowledge Engineering (93-97), IEEE Concurrency (1997-2000), and IEEE Parallel and Distributed Technology (1995-1997). He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and AAAS, and a member of SIAM. Kumar received the 2005 IEEE Computer Society's Technical Achievement Award for contributions to the design and analysis of parallel algorithms, graph-partitioning, and data mining.

Complete Vita

For a full vita with complete list of publications click here.

Recent Professional Activities..

Series Editor, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - CRC Press Book Series
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin
Steering Committee Co-Chair, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
Steering Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
Steering Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine
Steering Committee Member, The International Conference on Computation Science and its Applications (ICCSA)
Executive Committee, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence
Advisory Council, Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing

Research Projects..

Curent Projects

Recently Completed Projects

Data Mining for Rare Class Analysis
See highlights of this project on the NSF Discovery Page.

Books..

Introduction to Data Mining
Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar
Addison-Wesley, 2005. ISBN : 0321321367.

Introduction to Parallel Computing, (Second Edition)
Ananth Grama, Anshul Gupta, George Karypis, and Vipin Kumar.
Addison-Wesley, 2003. ISBN 0-201-64865-2.
International Chinese Edition 2003, Chinese translation, China Machine press, 2004.

Computational Approaches for Protein Function Prediction by Gaurav Pandey, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar, to be published by Wiley & Sons in Fall 2008

Managing Cyber Threats: Issues, Approaches and Challenges, edited by V. Kumar, J. Srivastava, and A. Lazarevic, Springer, ISBN 0-387-24226-0, May 2005.

Data Mining for Scientific and Engineering Applications, edited by R. Grossman, C. Kamath, W. P. Kegelmeyer, V. Kumar, and R. Namburu, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 1-4020-0033-2.

Introduction to Parallel Computing: Design and Analysis of Algorithms by Vipin Kumar, Ananth Grama, Anshul Gupta and George Karypis, Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company, November 1993.

Parallel Processing for Artificial Intelligence, Volume 1, edited by Laveen Kanal, Vipin Kumar, Hiroaki Kitano and Christian B. Suttner, North-Holland, June 1994.

Parallel Processing for Artificial Intelligence, Volume 2, edited by Hiroaki Kitano, Vipin Kumar, and Christian B. Suttner, North-Holland, July 1994.

Search in Artificial Intelligence, edited by Laveen Kanal and Vipin Kumar, Springer-Verlag, 1988.

Parallel Algorithms for Machine Intelligence and Vision edited by V. Kumar, P.S. Gopalkrishnan, and L. Kanal, Springer-Verlag, March 1990.

Publications

Software Packages

METIS/ParMETIS/hMETIS - Serial and Parallel Graph Partitioning Libraries
PSPASES - A Scalable Parallel Direct Solver Library for Sparse SPD Systems

Recent Talks

High Performance Data Mining: Applications for Discovery of Patterns in the Global Climate System, Keynote Presentation at HiPC - International Conference on High Performance Computing, December 21, 2007, Goa, India.
Data Mining for Sensor Networks - Opportunities and Challenges, Keynote Presentation at The IEEE International Conference in Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC 2006) June 5-7, 2006, Taichung, Taiwan.
Parallel and Distributed Computing for Cyber Security, Keynote Presentation at 17th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS-2004) September 15-17, 2004, San Francisco.
High Performance Data Mining, Keynote Presentation at 17th International Parellel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2003), April 22-26, 2003, Nice, France.
Data Mining for Network Intrusion Detection, Presentation at NSF Workshop on Next Generation Data Mining, Nov 1-3, 2002
High Performance Data Mining, Keynote Presentation at High Performance Computing for Computational Science, VECPAR 2002, June 27, 2002
Discovery of Patterns in the Global Climate System using Data Mining, Keynote Presentation at PAKDD, May 7, 2002
Discovery of Indirect Association from Web Usage Data, Keynote Presentation at PAKDD Workshop on Mining Data across Multiple Customer Touchpoints for CRM, May 6, 2002
Data Mining for Scientific and Engineering Applications, Tutorial at SC2001, November 12, 2001
High-Performance Data Mining, Tutorial at KDD-2000, August 20, 2000

Workshops

Workshop on Network Intrusion Detection, Aberdeen, Maryland, March 19 - 20, 2002