Kumer P. Das, Ph.D., is the Associate Vice President for Research and Innovation at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Previously, he was a professor of statistics and founding director of the Office of Undergraduate Research at Lamar University in Texas. Dr. Das also served as an interim associate provost for research at Lamar. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Auburn University in 2005. His research interests are statistics, big data analytics, actuarial mathematics, undergraduate research, and international education. He has received many regional and national teaching, mentoring, and research awards. Notably, he received the 2013 Mathematical Association of America’s Alder Award for distinguished teaching. He also received the 2016 Mathematical Association of America’s Robert V. Hogg Award for Excellence in Teaching Introductory Statistics. He has published extensively on various topics in statistics and mathematics with his undergraduate and graduate students. He was named the 2015 Lamar University Scholar in recognition of a lifetime of outstanding scholarly and creative achievements. He also received Lamar University’s 2015 Julie & Ben Rogers Community Service Award and the 2016 Fulbright International Education Administrator Award to France by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. He was a 2018 Fellow of the American Council of Education. He was a 2022-23 Fellow of APLU’s Council of Research. He is the elected Academic Co–Chair of the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceutical (NIIMBL) Workforce Advisory Committee. Over his career, Dr. Das has been involved with over $4 million in research grants and contracts as a PI.