Faculty

Soundar Kumara

Allen E. Pearce and Allen M. Pearce Professor of Industrial Engineering
Professor of Information Sciences & Technology (Affiliate)
Director (Interim), Center for  Applications of AI & ML to Industry (AIMI)

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Office : 222 Leonhard Building
Email : skumara@psu.edu
Phone : 814-863-2359

Education

  • Ph.D. , Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
  • M. Tech. , Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
  • B. Eng. , Mechanical Engineering, S.V.U. College of Engineering

Specialization

  • AI & ML in Manufacturing and Healthcare
  • Complex Networks
  • Smart Manufacturing
  • Supply Chain Resilience

Honors and Awards (view more)

Outstanding Industrial Engineer, Purdue University 2022 (of 10,000 Alumni 155 are recognized with this award, and the number of academics recognized is less than 20)

ASME Computers & Information Engineering Division, Excellence in Research Award, August 2021

IISE David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award, May 2021.

20 Most Influential Academicians in Smart Manufacturing, SME, June 2021. One nominator referred to Dr. Kumara as the Father of Smart Manufacturing.

IISE Magazine Coverage on the paper published in IySE Transactions in 2019, October 2019.

Invited Panel Member – AI in Manufacturing – Convened by US Congressional Manufacturing Caucus, June 11, 2019

Milestone Paper, Near Linear time algorithm to detect community structures in large-scale networks, U.N. Raghavan, Reka Albert and Soundar Kumara, Phys.Rev. E 76, 036106 (2007). Physical Review E published its 50,000th paper in September 2015. To celebrate this, the journal presented a series of milestone papers that were published since its inception in 1993. This is an eclectic collection of papers that made significant contributions to their field, chosen by the editors.

Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), April 2013

Fellow of American Association for Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), 2012

Fellow of Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE), May 2006

Fellow of International Academy of Production Research (CIRP), August 1996

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