Vijay Kumar is the Nemirovsky Family Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Vijay Kumar has been reappointed as the Nemirovsky Family Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His term will run through June 30, 2027. Under Kumar’s leadership during the previous six years, the School’s strategic plan, Penn Engineering 2020, has catalyzed growth across all of the School’s dimensions, especially in engineering health, data science and computation, and energy science and technology. Kumar and the Penn Engineering community continue to focus their collective efforts on critical areas of schoolwide importance, including diversity, equity, and inclusion; collaborative and translational research; and pedagogic innovation in online learning and investment in educational technologies.