2026 Vipin Kumar: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	115	183	178	107	104	611	93901

Vipin Kumar publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Vipin Kumar sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 611 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Vipin Kumar D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Vipin Kumar sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 115 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2017 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to data mining and high performance computing.
2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2005 - ACM Fellow For contributions to the design and analysis of parallel algorithms.
2000 - IEEE Fellow For the development of the isoefficiency metric of scalability and contributions to scalable parallel computing.

Overview

Vipin Kumar is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and has a research portfolio spanning engineering and materials science, with significant contributions to electrical and electronic engineering and materials chemistry. Their work covers multiple subfields including biomedical engineering, information systems, and computer networks and communications.

Their research topics emphasize chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, quantum dots synthesis and properties, gas sensing nanomaterials and sensors, copper-based nanomaterials and applications, photonic crystal and fiber optics, analytical chemistry and sensors, as well as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Vipin Kumar include:

D. K. Dwivedi
Akansha Agrwal
Pooja Lohia
Sapana Yadav
Adarsh Chandra Mishra

Vipin Kumar publishes regularly in journals such as the Journal of Optics, Optik, Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Physica Scripta, and Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research.

Recent publications feature the following works:

"Simulation study of reconfigurable surface plasmon resonance refractive index sensor employing bismuth telluride and MXene nanomaterial for cancer cell detection" (2023, Physica Scripta)
"Performance analysis of highly sensitive PCF sensor for drug detection" (2024, Journal of Optics)
"Advancements in hazardous gases detection: Using dual structures of photonic crystal fiber-based sensor" (2025, Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research)
"Highly Sensitive and Selective Hydrogen Gas Sensor with Humidity Tolerance Using Pd-Capped SnO2 Thin Films of Various Thicknesses" (2023, Fuels)
"Molecular engineering strategy and optoelectronic properties of diaminobenzene-thiazole π-conjugated small donor molecules for high-performance organic solar cells" (2024, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry)

Vipin Kumar has been recognized with several awards over their career. These include fellowship honors awarded by prominent scientific organizations:

SIAM Fellow in 2017, for contributions to data mining and high performance computing
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2006
ACM Fellow in 2005, for contributions to the design and analysis of parallel algorithms
IEEE Fellow in 2000, for the development of the isoefficiency metric of scalability and contributions to scalable parallel computing

Best Publications

Anomaly detection: A survey

Varun Chandola;Arindam Banerjee;Vipin Kumar

14209
Citations
A Fast and High Quality Multilevel Scheme for Partitioning Irregular Graphs

George Karypis;Vipin Kumar

7592
Citations
Top 10 algorithms in data mining

Xindong Wu;Vipin Kumar;J. Ross Quinlan;Joydeep Ghosh

7500
Citations
A Comparison of Document Clustering Techniques

Michael Steinbach;George Karypis;Vipin Kumar

3980
Citations
Chameleon: hierarchical clustering using dynamic modeling

G. Karypis;Eui-Hong Han;V. Kumar

3495
Citations
Introduction to parallel computing: design and analysis of algorithms

Vipin Kumar;Ananth Grama;Anshul Gupta;George Karypis

2453
Citations
Multilevelk-way Partitioning Scheme for Irregular Graphs

George Karypis;Vipin Kumar

2350
Citations
Multilevel hypergraph partitioning: applications in VLSI domain

G. Karypis;R. Aggarwal;V. Kumar;S. Shekhar

1879
Citations
METIS: A Software Package for Partitioning Unstructured Graphs, Partitioning Meshes, and Computing Fill-Reducing Orderings of Sparse Matrices

George Karypis;Vipin Kumar

1648
Citations
Theory-Guided Data Science: A New Paradigm for Scientific Discovery from Data

Anuj Karpatne;Gowtham Atluri;James H. Faghmous;Michael Steinbach

1403
Citations
Selecting the right interestingness measure for association patterns

Pang-Ning Tan;Vipin Kumar;Jaideep Srivastava

1295
Citations
A Comparative Study of Anomaly Detection Schemes in Network Intrusion Detection.

Aleksandar Lazarevic;Levent Ertöz;Vipin Kumar;Aysel Ozgur

1205
Citations
Trends in big data analytics

Karthik Kambatla;Giorgios Kollias;Vipin Kumar;Ananth Grama

1128
Citations
Multilevel hypergraph partitioning: application in VLSI domain

George Karypis;Rajat Aggarwal;Vipin Kumar;Shashi Shekhar

1114
Citations
The Top Ten Algorithms in Data Mining

Xindong Wu;Vipin Kumar

1103
Citations
Finding Clusters of Different Sizes, Shapes, and Densities in Noisy, High Dimensional Data.

Levent Ertöz;Michael S. Steinbach;Vipin Kumar

989
Citations
Multilevel k-way hypergraph partitioning

George Karypis;Vipin Kumar

909
Citations
Parallel Multilevel series k -Way Partitioning Scheme for Irregular Graphs

George Karypis;Vipin Kumar

865
Citations
Multilevel k-way Hypergraph Partitioning

George Karypis;Vipin Kumar

865
Citations
Feature bagging for outlier detection

Aleksandar Lazarevic;Vipin Kumar

853
Citations
Theory-guided Data Science: A New Paradigm for Scientific Discovery.

Anuj Karpatne;Gowtham Atluri;James H. Faghmous;Michael S. Steinbach

17
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

George Karypis University of Minnesota

Pang-Ning Tan Michigan State University

Shashi Shekhar University of Minnesota

Nagiza F. Samatova North Carolina State University

Ananth Grama Purdue University West Lafayette

Jaideep Srivastava University of Minnesota

Hui Xiong Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Marina L. Gavrilova University of Calgary

Arindam Banerjee University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

David Taniar Monash University

External Links

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