Vipin Kumar is a Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the William Norris Endowed Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. 

Kuman's research spans data mining, high-performance computing, and their applications in climate/ecosystems and healthcare. He has authored over 300 research articles, and has coedited or coauthored 10 books including two textbooks "Introduction to Parallel Computing" and "Introduction to Data Mining", that are used world-wide and have been  translated into many languages.

One of Kumar's current major research focus areas is on developing "Physics-Aware" machine learning techniques where both scientific knowledge and data are integrated in a synergistic manner. 

Read Vipin's professional bio here.