Professor, Decision Sciences
Director In-charge
U Dinesh Kumar is a Professor of Decision Sciences at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and has been Dean Faculty at IIMB. He has been the Director In Charge of IIM Bangalore since 20 July 2025. since April 2023. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Bombay.
Dr Dinesh Kumar has over 28 years of teaching and research experience. Before joining IIM Bangalore, Dr Dinesh Kumar worked at several reputed Institutes across the world, including Stevens Institute of Technology, USA; University of Exeter, UK; University of Toronto, Canada; Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland; Queensland University of Technology, Australia; Australian National University, Australia and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
He was the IIMB Chair of Excellence from January 2020 to December 2022. He is the founding president of the Analytics Society of India (ASI). Dr Dinesh Kumar was awarded the Best Young Teacher Award by the Association of Indian Management Institutions in 2003. He was listed as one of India's top 10 analytics academics by the Analytics India magazine in 2014. He was awarded the Distinguished Professor award in Data Science by Analytics India Magazine in 2021.