Sunil Kumar

Sunil Kumar serves as the President and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University since July 2023. Prior to this role, Sunil Kumar held multiple positions at Johns Hopkins University from August 2016 to June 2023, including Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Professor at the Carey Business School, while also serving as Provost of the university until April 2023. Between January 2011 and August 2016, Sunil Kumar was the Dean and George Pratt Shultz Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. From July 1996 to December 2010, Sunil Kumar was the Fred H. Merrill Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where additional roles included Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor. Sunil Kumar earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a Master of Engineering in System Science and Automation from the Indian Institute of Science, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka.