Kavita Bala

Kavita Bala
Bala in 2025
Born1971 (age 54–55)
Bombay, India
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsCornell University
ThesisRadiance interpolants for interactive scene editing and ray tracing (1999)
Doctoral advisors

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.