Vipin Gopal

Vipin Gopal (), born at Calicut, Kerala, India, is an inventor, business innovator and community activist. He is a leading authority in business applications of advanced analytics, optimization and control technologies, and has many publications and patents in these areas.
Gopal created the first-ever webpages on Kerala and Malayalam in 1993. He has also been an active leader in the Indian-American community.
Early life
Vipin Gopal was born and brought up in India in the coastal city of Calicut (Kozhikode), Kerala. He completed his early education at St. Joseph's Boys' High School and Malabar Christian College. As a High School student, he was recognized by the National Talent Search Scholarship. He was also a rank-holder in both the Kerala State Engineering Entrance Examination and Pre-Degree Examination, a unique feat at that time. He obtained his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, both in Chemical Engineering.
Professional background
Vipin started his professional career with the Corporate Technology Center of Honeywell International at Minneapolis, USA. He has since held leadership positions at the Corporate Research Center of United Technologies Corporation and CIGNA Healthcare, and is currently with Humana Inc.
Though trained in Chemical Engineering, his contributions have spanned a broad variety of areas including energy systems, aerospace, computing and communications, and healthcare, and holds patents in many of these areas His research has been published in journals including SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, AIChE Journal, IEEE Computer, Computers and Chemical Engineering and AIAA Journal on Guidance, Control and Dynamics. He was an Associate Editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Control Systems and Technologies.
Community leadership
Vipin is credited with creating the first webpages on Kerala and Malayalam on the internet in 1993 while he was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon.
He has been involved in the Indian-American community activities for more than a decade, and was the President of India Association of Minnesota in 2001.<ref name="AsianWeek_2001"/>

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