Chair, Data Centre and Analytics Lab
IIMB Chair of Excellence
Dr. Dinesh Kumar is a Professor of Decision Sciences at IIM Bangalore. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Bombay. Dr. Dinesh Kumar introduced Business Analytics elective course in 2008 to the PGP students at IIM Bangalore and started one of the first certificate programs in Business Analytics in India in 2010. Dr. Dinesh Kumar has published more than 70 research articles in leading academic journals. Forty of his case studies on Business Analytics based on Indian and multinational organizations have been published at the Harvard Business Publishing’s (HBP) case portal. He has authored many books, his recent book is titled, “Business Analytics – The Science of Data Driven Decision Making”, published by Wiley in 2017 is an Amazon Best Seller. He also co-authored a book titled, “Machine Learning Using Python”, with Mr. Manaranjan Pradhan, published by Wiley in 2019. He is the founding president of the Analytics Society of India (ASI). Dr. Dinesh Kumar has won many awards like the Best Young Teacher Award, top 10 analytics academics in India and the Distinguished Professor award in Data Science.