Dr Kuldeep Kumar did his Ph D. from University of Kent at Canterbury and is currently Professor at the Centre of Data Analytics in the Faculty of Business at Bond University. He has taught at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and National University of Singapore before joining Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia in 1993. Dr Kumar is Fellow of Royal Statistical Society since 1984 and a chartered statistician. He is Jont Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A- Book review)) besides being on the editorial board of several other journals.

Winner of several awards including Commonwealth Fellowship, Commission of European Countries Post Doc Fellowship, Young Statistician award of the International Statistical Institute which is given to three young statisticians in the whole world every two years, Bond-Oxford Fellowship and Vice Chancellor’s Quality award for research supervision, Dr Kumar is also winner of several Teaching Excellence awards and Research Excellence awards. He has also won Lecturer of the year award and best research paper awards. In 2013 he has won outstanding contribution award from the International Society of Management Engineers and Lifetime Achievement Award.

Dr Kumar has published more than 140 research papers in the international refereed journals/conference proceedings, eleven chapters in the books, 30 book reviews for the Royal Statistical Society besides presenting papers in more than hundred seminars and conferences. He has been Keynote speaker for more than 15 international conferences and also Chaired sessions in several international conferences. He has also edited a special issue of Managerial Finance journal besides several conference proceedings. His current research interests are in the areas of bankruptcy prediction, financial fraud detection, forensic accounting and higher education. He has supervised many Masters and PhD students in these areas and received several research grants. His papers are well cited in many journals and books. He has refereed papers for more than 50 top journals and is on the editorial board of several international journals including Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A)