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Agnik Co-Founders

Agnik’s mission is to develop software products and offer services in the areas of Mobile and Distributed data mining. As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Agnik's founders  Hillol Kargupta and Kakali Sarkar started its operation in June 2003 at the University of Maryland Baltimore County Technology Center with award from Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) and a contract from US Air Force.

Agnik Co-Founders:

Hillol Kargupta, Ph.D., President

Hillol Kargupta is one of the co-founders of Agnik LLC. Hillol Kargupta is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996.

Hillol Kargupta won a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2001 for his research on ubiquitous and distributed data mining. He along with his co-authors has received the best paper award in the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining for a paper on privacy-preserving data mining. He won 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 (SIAM) annual best student paper prize. He has published more than eighty peer-reviewed articles in journals, conferences, and books. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, Cybernetics, Part B among others. He served as the Program Co-Chair of the 2005 SIAM Data Mining Conference, Associate General Chair of the 2003 ACM SIGKDD Conference, Vice-Chair of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Area Chair of the 2005 16th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the 9th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD), 2005. He has co-edited two books: (1) "Advances in Distributed and Parallel Knowledge Discovery", AAAI/MIT Press, and (2)" Data Mining: Next Generation Challenges and Future Directions" by AAAI/MIT Press. He is in the program committee of almost every major data mining conference (e.g. ACM, IEEE, SIAM). He regularly serves as an invited speaker in many international conferences and workshops. More information about him can be found at http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~hillol .
 

Kakali Sarkar, Chief Operating Officer