Kuldeep Kumar - Staff Profiles

Title
Professor, (Economics and Statistics)
Department
Faculty of Business
Telephone
Office Telephone Number Within Australia: From overseas:	7 559 53305 +61 7 559 53305
Location
Building Level:	4
Building:	Business Building
Location:	Bond University

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.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science - L'now University
Doctor of Philosophy - University of Kent, U.K.
Master of Science - L'now University

Professional admission & memberships

Chartered Statistician

Chartered Scientist

Fellow of Royal Statistical Society

Other professional appointments

Visiting Professor - AI-Econ Centre, National Chengchi University

Affiliate Professor - CENTRUM Católica, Peru

Recent Keynote Addresses

Bankruptcy Prediction for SME
SME Banking and Finance Conference, Marcus Evans
Challenges in Higher Education
International Conference, IPE and Bihar Government
Future of Statistics
International Conference, AMU

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.
Subject list
ECON70-041 Forecasting Techniques in Business ECON12-200 Econometrics BUSN71-104 Statistical Methods for Business BUSN71-600 Analysis and Application STAT11-111 Business Statistics STAT11-100 Business Maths STAT10-100 Elementary Maths
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 Reserach Contribution

Research interests & research expertise
Dr Kumar has research interest in various areas of statistical/Econometric Modelling and Foreacsting. His current resaerch interest includes: Bankruptcy prediction, Fraud detection, Recursive Partitioning, Time Series Analysis, Business and Economic Forecasting, Statistical Modelling, Multivariate Analysis, Econometrics, Application of Neural Network and AI in breast cancer detection and Finance. Application of Statistics in sport, exercise science and health. Biostatistics and teaching.
Current research grants
Vice Chancellor Research Grant
Recent research grants>
Vice Chancellor Research Grant
Research partners & collaborators
Dr Sukanto Bhattacharya - Deakin University Dr Ping Zhang - CSIRO, Melbourne
Publications
Kuldeep Kumar (Personal researcher page) Recent Publications An integrated education planning model for strategic decisions using system dynamics Role of teaching ethics in higher education Total quality management in higher education A practical, distribution-free approach to the classical newsboy inventory stocking problem for highly right-skewed but otherwise unknown demand distributions Diabetes prediction in Pima Indians using ANN and statistical techniques How to make teaching of statistics more effective in business schools? A brief review of recent research trends on applications of computational and statistical techniques in financial & business intelligence An ANN-based auditor decision support system using Benford's Law Presenting a simplified assistant tool for breast cancer diagnosis in mammography to radiologists Forecasting credit ratings using an ANN and statistical techniques Computational exploration of the biological basis of Black-Scholes expected utility function Business failure prediction using decision trees Modelling the glitter in gold A neural-genetic algorithm for feature selection and breast abnormality classification in digital mammography A hybrid classifier for mass classification with different kinds of features in mammography Neural vs. statistical classifier in conjunction with genetic algorithm based feature selection Neural vs statistical classifier in conjunction with genetic algorithm feature selection in digital mammography The role of survival analysis in financial distress prediction Forensic accounting and Benford's law A Hybrid Approach Based on Genetic Algorithms in Conjunction with Statistical Methods for the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

Staff Profiles

Dr Kuldeep Kumar C. Stat, FSS, CSci