Kavita Bala
Kavita Bala | |
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Bala in 2025 | |
| Born | 1971 (age 54–55) Bombay, India |
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| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
| Thesis | Radiance interpolants for interactive scene editing and ray tracing (1999) |
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Kavita Bala (born 1971) is an Indian-American computer scientist, and the 17th and current provost of Cornell University. She is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell. After serving as department chair from 2018–2020, she was appointed Dean of the Faculty for Computing and Information Science, now known as the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.