
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering |
Brief
Bio
Hillol Kargupta is a Professor of Computer Science at the University
of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is also a co-founder of AGNIK LLC, a
data analytics company for mobile, distributed, and embedded
environments. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996. His research
interests include mobile and distributed data mining.
Dr.
Kargupta is an IEEE Fellow. His work received the 2010 Frost &
Sullivan Enabling Technology of Year Award. He won the IBM Innovation
Award in 2008 and a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2001
for his research on ubiquitous and distributed data mining. He and his
team received the 2010 Frost and Sullivan Enabling Technology of the
Year Award for the MineFleet vehicle performance data mining product.
His other awards include the 2010 IEEE Top-10 Data Mining Case Studies
Award for his work at Agnik, the best paper award for the 2003 IEEE
International Conference on Data Mining for a paper on
privacy-preserving data mining, the 2000 TRW Foundation Award, and the
1997 Los Alamos Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement. His
dissertation earned him the 1996 Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics annual best student paper prize.
He
has published more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles. His
research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation, US Air
Force, Department of Homeland Security, NASA and various other
organizations. He has co-edited several books. He serve(s/d) as an
associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part
B and Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Journal. He is/was the
Program Co-Chair of 2009 IEEE International Data Mining Conference,
General Chair of 2007 NSF Next Generation Data Mining Symposium,
Program Co-Chair of 2005 SIAM Data Mining Conference and Associate
General Chair of the 2003 ACM SIGKDD Conference, among others. For
more information please visit: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~hillol
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