PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

George Karypis

George Karypis works at the University of Minnesota, where his research spans recommender systems and LLM-based web agents. In September 1998 he, Vipin Kumar, and Kirk Schloegel wrote METIS 4.0 and ParMETIS 2.0, and the Karypis Lab distributes its software on GitHub. He and Xia Ning published SLIM, a sparse linear method for top-N recommender systems, in 2011. The IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award went to him in 2017, and in 2022 he was a senior principal scientist at AWS AI/ML. As of October 2026, he is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota.

Works
876
Citations
64,878
h-index
95

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. September 1998

    METIS and ParMETIS software

    In September 1998 he, Vipin Kumar, and Kirk Schloegel write METIS 4.0 and ParMETIS 2.0, and the Karypis Lab distributes its software on GitHub.

  2. 2011

    SLIM for top-N recommendation

    He and Xia Ning publish SLIM, a sparse linear method for top-N recommender systems, in 2011.

  3. 2015

    Digital Technology Center chair

    Serving as ADC Chair of the Digital Technology Center in 2015, he also works as a professor at the University of Minnesota.

  4. 2017

    IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award

    The IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award goes to him in 2017.

  5. 2020

    A ten-year impact award

    Xia Ning receives the ICDM 10-Years-Highest-Impact Award in 2020 for her work with him.

  6. 2022

    Senior principal scientist at AWS

    As a senior principal scientist at AWS AI/ML in 2022, he is also a Distinguished McKnight University Professor.

  7. 2025

    A baseline for web agents

    His co-authored paper AgentOccam, a simple baseline for LLM-based web agents, appears at ICLR 2025.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor at Minnesota

    He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota.

Sources and credits

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  1. METIS / ParMETIS cs.ucdavis.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Karypis Lab @ UMN-CS&E · GitHub github.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. SLIM: Sparse LInear Methods for top-N recommender systems - Experts@Minnesota experts.umn.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. DSI Distinguished Lecture by George Karypis on Big Data Methods, Systems, and Applications bu.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. 2017 IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award: Professor George Karypis icdm.zhonghuapu.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. 10-Years-Highest-Impact Award from the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) | Computer Science and Engineering cse.osu.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. WSDM'22 – 15th ACM International WSDM Conference wsdm-conference.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  8. George Karypis - Experts@Minnesota experts.umn.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  9. Welcome | George Karypis www-users.cs.umn.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.