Honors & Awards

  • Elected Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2017.
  • The IEEE Computer Society’s Sidney Fernbach Award, 2016.
  • Regents Professorship, University of Minnesota, June 2015.
  • Council of Graduate Students (COGS) Outstanding Faculty Award, 2015.
  • "Hopper-Dean Scholarship Honoring Dr. Vipin Kumar," a $500,000 endowment to support undergraduate scholarships at the University of Minnesota established by Jeff Dean (Google Senior Fellow) and his wife, Heidi Hopper, 2014.
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee (2013).
  •  Appointed to World Economic Forum (WEF), Global Agenda Council on Measuring Sustainability, 2013, and invited to the 2013 annual meeting of WEF’s Summit on the Global Agenda, which is world’s largest brainstorming event, bringing together the most relevant thought leaders of the World to collaboratively explore important issues shaping the global, industry and regional agendas.
  • ACM SIGKDD 2012 Innovation Award, the highest award for technical excellence in the field of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD).
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.
  • IEEE ICDM 2008 Outstanding Service Award, December 2008.
  • Elected Fellow of AAAS (American Association of Advancement of Science), 2006.
  • Named to the Alumni Hall of Fame, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.
  • Elected Fellow of the ACM, 2005.
  • The 2005 IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award for contributions to the design and analysis of parallel algorithms, graph-partitioning, and data mining.
  • Elected Fellow of the IEEE, 2000.
  • IBM Partnership Awards, 1995 & 1996.
  • Appointed Fellow, Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, 1996.
  • Honorable Mention in the 1989 Gordon Bell Competition for practical parallel processing research.
  • Graduate Student Research Excellence Award from the Maryland chapter of Sigma-Xi, the Scientific Research Society, 1982.
  • ACM Samuel Alexander Fellowship Award from the Washington D.C. chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery, 1981.
  • Gold medal for first rank in the merit list of over 350,000 students for the 12th grade state-wide examination (US equivalent: High School) in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, 1973.
  • Ramanujan Gold Medal for first place in district level Math Olympiad, Muzaffarnagar, India, 1972.
  • Dissertation of three PhD students received university-wide Best Dissertation Awards: Gang Fang (2013) Outstanding Dissertation Award from University of Minnesota; James Faghmous (2014) Outstanding Dissertation Award from University of Minnesota; Yow-Jian Lin (1988) Outstanding Dissertation Award from University of Texas.
  • Dissertations of two PhD students were among five finalists in the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition (Yow-Jian Lin (1988) for his work on automatic parallel execution of logic programs and Anshul Gupta (1995) for his work on highly scalable sparse Cholesky factorization.
  • Numerous other awards for papers co-authored with students.