Hillol Kargupta

Hillol Kargupta is an academic, scientist, and entrepreneur.

Hillol Kargupta
Born1967 (1967)
Darjeeling, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Known forPresident of Agnik, Contributions on Distributed Data Analytics
AwardsIEEE Fellow, IEEE International Data Mining Conference 10-year Highest Impact Award, 2010 Frost & Sullivan Enabling Technology of Year Award, IBM Innovation Award in 2008, Paper selected for "Best of 2008 SIAM Data Mining Conference (SDM'08), and National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2001
Scientific career
FieldsDistributed Data Mining; Data Analytics for Connected Cars and IoT
InstitutionsAgnik
Doctoral advisorDavid E. Goldberg

He is a co-founder and President of Agnik, a data analytics company for connected cars and Internet of Things. He also serves as the chairman of the board for KD2U, an organization for promoting research, education, and practice of data analytics in distributed and mobile environments. He was a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County from until July, 2014.

Kargupta received his PhD. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA in 1996. Kargupta received his master's degree (M. Tech.) from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India and undergraduate degree (B.Tech) from Regional Engineering College Calicut, India. After finishing his PhD in 1995, Kargupta joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a post-doctoral researcher and then as a full technical staff member. He joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Washington State University in 1997 as an assistant professor. In 2001 Kargupta joined the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Maryland at Baltimore County (UMBC). He spent 13 years at the UMBC and become a full professor in year 2009. In 2008, he also founded the Society for Knowledge Discovery in Distributed and Ubiquitous (KD2U) Environments. He currently serves as the President of Agnik.

Since 2004, Prof. Kargupta has been active as Advisory Board Member, resp. has participated in several EU-funded projects on data mining and knowledge discovery, such as KDNet (5FP, NOE) and KDUBIQ (6FP, CA). He served as EU project evaluator for data analytics projects in ICT.

Awards[1]
  • IEEE Fellow, 2011 for his contribution on distributed data mining.[2]
  • IEEE 10-Year Highest Impact Paper award.[3]
  • Top-10 Data Mining Case Studies in IEEE ICDM, 2010.
  • Frost & Sullivan Enabling Technology of the Year, 2010.
  • IBM Innovation Award, 2008.
  • National Science Foundation CAREER award, 2001.
  • Los Alamos Award for outstanding technical achievement, 1997.
  • SIAM (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics) annual best student paper award, 1996.

Publications[4]

References
  1. UMBC Hillol Kargupta Awards Page
  2. "IEEE Fellow Class of 2011". Archived from the original on 26 September 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  3. Kargupta wins IEEE 10-Year Highest-Impact Paper Award
  4. UMBC Hillol Kargupta Faculty Page
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