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November 27, 2006
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded the distinction of AAAS fellow to the University of Minnesota's Vipin Kumar, the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department head and a William Norris Professor, for his meritorious work in data mining and high performance computing.
Kumar is internationally recognized for his research in the areas of high-performance computing, graph partitioning, and data mining. He has authored more than 200 research articles, and co-edited or co-authored nine books, including text books on parallel computing and data mining that are used world-wide and have been translated in many languages.
Kumar earned his bachelors degree in electronics and communications engineering in 1977 from the Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee, India. He then received his master's in electronics engineering in 1979 from the Phillips International Institute in the Netherlands and a Ph.D. in 1982 in computer science from the University of Maryland. Kumar taught at the University of Texas at Austin, before coming to the University of Minnesota in 1989. In 1995 he was promoted to full professor, and from 1998-2005 he served as the director of the Army High Performance Computing Research Center. In 2005 Kumar became the CSE department head and a William Norris Professor.
Kumar is a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and was honored with the 2005 IEEE Computer Society's Technical Achievement Award for contributions to the design and analysis of parallel algorithms, graph-partitioning, and data mining.
AAAS began honoring science professionals as fellows in 1874. Fellows are elected by their peers and recognized for significant work to advance science. To mark the honor, AAAS commemorates the fellow title distinction with a certificate and a rosette pin. Kumar will be presented with these tokens of his achievements at the AAAS Fellows Forum on February 17, 2007 in San Francisco as part of the group's annual meeting.
AAAS is an international non-profit group focused on the advancement of science throughout the world. The group serves more than 250 science societies and academies. AAAS organizes a variety of scientific activities, in addition to publishing the journal Science, scientific newsletters and other publications. For more information, visit AAAS.
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