Dwarkadas Pralhaddas Kothari (born 7 October 1944) is an educationist and professor who has held leadership positions at engineering institutions in India including IIT Delhi, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur and VIT University, Vellore. Currently, he is the Director Research, MVSR Engineering College and very recently was Director General of Vindhya Institute of Technology and Science (VITS), Indore.