Vipin's Journey Through 'Parallel' World
Vipin Kumar is currently Director of Army High Performance Computing Research Center and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota.
Kumar's current research interests include parallel computing, parallel algorithms for scientific computing problems, and data mining.
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 (PSPACES), graph partitioning (METIS, ParMetis, hMetis) and dense hierarchical solvers.
He has authored over 100 research articles, and coedited or coauthored 5 books including the widely used textbook ``Introduction to Parallel Computing" (Publ. Benjamin Cummings/Addison Wesley, 1994). Kumar serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Concurrency, Parallel Computing, the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, and served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions of Data and Knowledge Engineering during 93-97. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of SIAM, and ACM.
Kumar received the B.E. degree in electronics & communication engineering from 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.
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