Vipin Kumar

Vipin Kumar is associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the UW Microcellular Consortium. His professional interests lie in the areas of design and manufacturing, including such areas as product and process design, and characterization and processing of polymeric composites. His research program focuses on microcellular composites, a family of novel cellular materials expected to be used in a variety of applications in the decades to come. In the course of this research, Vipin developed technology to create lightweight, cost-efficient plastics, which are now licensed to UW spin-out company MicroGREEN Polymers. MicroGREEN’s goal is to provide the plastics industry and the world with environmentally-sound plastics technologies that offer substantial economic advantages.