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CSE Department Head Vipin Kumar Named Computer Science Alum of the Year

April 14, 2009

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CSE Department Head Vipin Kumar was recently named the Alum of the year by the University of Maryland's Computer Science Department. Kumar received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 1982 under the guidance of Professor Laveen Kanal.

Dr. Kumar is internationally recognized for his research in the areas of parallel computing, graph partitioning, and data mining. He and his students developed highly scalable parallel formulations of combinatorial algorithms (e.g., problem solving search algorithms used in Artificial Intelligence), numerical and graph algorithms that underlie scientific and engineering simulations, and data mining algorithms for association pattern discovery and predictive modeling.

One of Dr. Kumar's significant contributions include the isoefficiency metric for analyzing the scalability of parallel algorithms. This metric represented a major breakthrough in understanding scalability, and is now routinely covered in major textbooks on parallel computing.