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[books],
[publications],
[software packages],
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positions]
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
For a full vita with complete list of publications click
here.
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
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.
- METIS/ParMETIS/hMETIS
-
Serial
and
Parallel
Graph
Partitioning
Libraries
- PSPASES - A
Scalable Parallel Direct Solver Library for Sparse SPD Systems
Recent Talks
- Discovery of
Patterns in Global Earth Science Data using Data Mining, Keynote
Presentation at the 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining, 21 - 24 June, 2010, Hyderabad, India.
- Mining
Scientific Data: Past, Present, and Future [pdf], Keynote
Presentation at SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2010,
April 29 - May 1, 2010, Columbus, Ohio.
- Mining Climate
and Ecosystem Data : Challenges and Opportunities, Keynote
Presentation at The IEEE International
Conference On Data Mining (ICDM 2009) December 6-9, 2009, Miami,
Florida.
- Assessing Change in
Global Forest Cover using Data Mining,
Invited Presentation at Next Generation Data Mining Summit (NGDM 2009)
October 1-3, 2009, Columbia.
- 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
Workshop
.
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