Sunil Kumar is an Indian-born academic administrator. He is the president-elect at

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after serving as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at

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Early life and education

Kumar was born in India. He is the son of a police officer. He earned a bachelor of engineering form

National Institute of Technology Karnataka National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), also known as NITK Surathkal, formerly known as Karnataka Regional Engineering College (KREC), is a public technical university at Surathkal, Mangalore. It was founded in 1960 as KREC while tod ...

in 1990. In 1992, he completed a master of engineering in computer science and automation at the

Indian Institute of Science The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The institute wa ...

. Kumar received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from

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in 1996.

Career

Kumar worked for 14 years at

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. He was the Fred H. Merrill Professor of Operations, Information and Technology. He was also a senior associate dean of academic affairs and oversaw the MBA program. Kumar was later the George Pratt Shultz Professor of Operations Management at the

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where he also served as the dean since 2011. On September 1, 2016, Kumar became the 15th provost of

. On November 17, 2022, Kumar was announced as the 14th president of Tufts University, succeeding

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. He assumes the position on July 1, 2023, becoming the first person of color to hold the position.

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* Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Indian Institute of Science alumni Grainger College of Engineering alumni University of Chicago Booth School of Business faculty Johns Hopkins University administrators Indian expatriate academics Indian expatriates in the United States {{academic-administrator-stub