Vipin Kumar's Home Page..

Affiliations and Address:
kumar at 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, Keller Hall
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone (612) 625 0726

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Short Biography

Vipin Kumar is currently William Norris Professor and Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota. He also served as the Director of Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) from 1988 to 2005. Kumar 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, high-performance computing, and their applications in Climate/Ecosystems and Biomedical domains. 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 10 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 internaional conferences and workshops in the area of data mining and parallel computing, including IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (2002) and International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (2001). In 2001, Kumar co-founded SIAM International Conference on Data Mining and served as its steering committee chair until 2007. Currently, Kumar serves on the steering committees of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 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 is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and AAAS. Kumar received the 2009 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Computer Science Department, University of Maryland College Park, and 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

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Recent Professional Activities..



Research Projects..

Curent Projects

Recently Completed Projects


Openings for Graduate and Undergrad Research Assistants


We are looking for highly motivated and hard-working students (PhD, MS, and undergraduate) for a number of projects that involve discovery of patterns from global ecosystem and climate data.

We have several open positions in data mining research and system development. Research positions require demonstrated experience/interest in data mining. Development positions require rock-solid programming skills in MATLAB, SQL, and/or Adobe Flash.

If interested, please send your resume to Dr. Shyam Boriah (sboriah@cs.umn.edu).

Visit group web site for more information: http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kumar/nasa-umn/

or contact:

Shyam Boriah (sboriah@cs.umn.edu),
Michael Steinbach (steinbac@cs.umn.edu) or
Vipin Kumar (kumar@cs.umn.edu)

for information about research being conducted in the group.

Books..

Introduction to Data Mining 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, Chad L. Myers, 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



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