Neithalath Mohan Kumar (N. Mohan Kumar) (born 12 May 1951) is an Indian mathematician who specialised in commutative algebra and algebraic Geometry.Professor Kumar is a full professor at Washington University in St. Louis.He was awarded in 1994 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the mathematical sciences category. Dr Kumar has made profound and original contributions to commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.