Prof Kuldeep Kumar
Professor
Building 3A Centre for Data Analytics, Bond University
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Professional biography
Dr Kuldeep Kumar obtained PhD in Statistics from the University of Kent, Canterbury. He has taught at the Indian Institute of Management and National University of Singapore before joining Bond University in 1993. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a Chartered Statistician and currently he has been awarded Chartered Scientist by Science Council.
He has won the Commonwealth Scholarship Award, CEC Post Doctoral Fellowship Award and Young Statistician Award of the International Statistical Institute. He is also winner of the Bond-Oxford Fellowship in 1997 and Australia-Taiwan exchange program award in 1998 and 2007. He was winner of Vice Chancellor quality award for research supervision in 2006. He has twice (1998 and 2002) won the Teaching Excellence Award of the School of Information Technology and in 2005 he won Quality award for the post graduate supervision. Dr Kumar has also won Excellence in Research award of Faculty of Business in 2006.
Recipient of several grants Dr Kumar has published more than 100 research papers, 10 chapters in the book, 24 book reviews and edited four conference proceedings and one book. He has also edited a special issue of Managerial Finance. In the last 6 years he has successfully supervised 2 PhD students and several Masters Students. He is on the Editorial board of six International referred journals and has been invited speaker/chaired the session in several International Conferences.
Research interests
I obtained my PhD in Statistics from the University of Kent, Canterbury. I taught at the Indian Institute of Management and National University of Singapore before joining Bond University in 1993. I am a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Chartered Statistician and recently awarded Chartered Scientist by Science Council.
My basic research interest is in the area of modelling and forecasting time series data. However, my current research interest is in the area of bankruptcy prediction, financial fraud detection and breast cancer detection, using cutting edge recursive partitioning techniques. We have developed some hybrid models which could be helpful in early fraud detection, financial distress prediction, breast cancer detection and many similar areas. We are also working on a Surf Life Saving Project (with my co-researchers) to develop a surf hazard rating index which could be helpful to the referees in surfing competitions.
I also have some interest in the area of forensic accounting, where we are trying to develop a model for empirically 'scoring' the susceptibility of Australian organizations to occupational fraud, based on the fraud triangle vertices. In this connection, we have also published papers in the area of Benford Law to detect financial fraud.
One of my PhD students is working in the area of developing models to detect financial statement fraud.
I have also some research interest in the area of higher education and ethical issues.
Teaching expertise
DR Kuldeep Kumar who is winner of teaching excellence award has taught in Indian Institute of Management and National University of Singapore before joining Bond University. He has over 25 years of teaching experience and has taught various subjects.
Teaching awards
- Vice Chancellor Quality award
- Teaching Excellence award
- Bond-Oxford Fellowship
- Commonwealth Scholarship
- International Science Linkage award of AASc
- Dean's Citation for Outstanding Research Contribution
Professional admissions
- Chartered Statistician
- Chartered Scientist
- Fellow of Royal Statistical Society
Professional appointments
- Visiting Professor - AI-Econ Centre, National Chengchi University
- Affiliate Professor - CENTRUM Católica, Peru
Qualifications
- Economics, PhD, University of Kent
Fields of Research
- Other commerce, management, tourism and services